International human rights law has often been characterised as a product of colonialism and cultural imperialism. In the words of Makau Mutua, a Kenya-born...

Italian activist and artist, Gianluca Constantini, has created a series of drawings calling for an end to Israel's on-going siege of Gaza, the third in five...

The Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement is a peaceful, civil disobedience initiative started by Palestinian civil society in 2005, in response to a...

Pregnant women are among the most vulnerable people living under Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Palestinian women are increasingly enduring pre-term labor and...

On July 17, 2014, three Palestinian children from the Shabir family were killed in an Israeli air strike on Sabra, Gaza. Their deaths are neither rare nor the...

TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains sexually explicit words and images. As Israel’s latest assault on Gaza enters its third week, the destructive force...

Your existence is a daily nightmare for him. Merely your existence. You, being here, challenges his fraudulent entitlement to your land. He sees his crime in...

The below is an update on the current crisis in Gaza from the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). To read the full update, please click...

Ivan Illich, the philosopher, Catholic priest, and social critic, once said, “Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the U.S....

“A lot of people who complain about Israel’s actions toward Palestine are self-proclaimed ‘liberals’ who are supposedly standing up in the name of...

While exhorting his troops to victory in Normandy during World War II, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote the soldiers an evocative letter. Using stirring...

Events unfolding in Yemen demonstrate that the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC), which was concluded in January 2014, are a weak basis for...

Muftah is putting together a Special Collection of articles exploring gender and sexual variance across the Arab and Muslim worlds and their diaspora...

Entrepreneurship has deep roots in Iranian culture. From taking charge of family-owned ho­­­jrehs (small shops) in traditional bazaars to forming technology...

As news spreads of the circumstances surrounding last week’s murder of 17-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdair, many international observers are...