A Tale of Two Religions: Worship on a Contested Site
The recent resolution voted on by UNESCO regarding two Israeli monuments caused quite a bit of controversy in the…
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The Tragedy of Colonial Borders
Four years into the crisis, the international community continues to struggle in forming a coherent response to…
How ISIS and Sunni Rage Remade the Middle East
The Bush White House’s decision to invade Iraq, overthrow Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist dictatorship and…
How Moscow Will Lose Ankara
On September 30, President Vladimir Putin stunned the international community with the deployment of Russian…
Some Weak Tea for the Third Intifada
Mahmood Abbas, President of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestine’s ruling party, did…
Hajj Tragedy Highlights New Horizons for Iranian-Saudi Relations
In the wake of the tragic stampede that occurred on Sept. 24th during Hajj, an annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca,…
Deal or No Nuclear Deal: How the Crisis with Iran Began and Why the End is Now in…
When the staunchly conservative members of the United States government echo and applaud the fear-mongering…
The Fallacy of Ideological Warfare: How Overemphasis on Religion Perpetuates…
The world is in the midst of an ideological war…at least this is what mainstream media organisations and…
ISIS and the Sacred State
The expressed mission of ISIS is the creation of a caliphate to rule over the entire Muslim ummah, the entire…
Karama has No Walls: An Interview with Sara Ishaq
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Karama has No Walls was recently nominated for this year’s Oscar in the category Documentary Short. It is a…