The Middle East region is often portrayed as synonymous with conflict, wracked by civil war and terrorist expansionism. But, the actual, on-the-ground impact...
In Tunis, yellow cabs are never clean. Wherever you walk, you can be sure to stumble upon some plastic déchets on the roads. The streetlights seldom function...
Thirty-five years ago tomorrow, September 12th, 1980 at approximately 4am the Turkish military announced the last full military coup that would take place in...
Last week’s trending topic in Egypt was about a girl named Mariam Malak. Mariam is an A student, whose exam results in previous years ranked her among the...
With countries like Hungary and Bulgaria rightly dominating the news for their poor treatment of refugees, it has been remarkably easy to overlook other...
On the eve of Sunday, September 20, the Jerusalem city council approved thirty new Hebrew street names in the predominantly Arab neighborhoods of East...
Since the U.S. "War on Terror" began in 2001, the battle has progressively moved from the war room to the court room. While the number of terrorism-related...
Last week, the U.S. Congress failed to pass a resolution disapproving of the Iran deal, ensuring its implementation in the near future. Reached in July 2015...
On Sunday, August 23, over 500 Palestinian and international activists marched to Beit Jala's Beer Owneh, the location where Israeli bulldozers uprooted...
We are in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II. According to Amnesty International, more than 50 million people have been forcibly...
It may not have name recognition, but the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) has a significant task, which began this August. The subsidiary body of the...
French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has weighed in on the refugee crisis by publishing two cartoons of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose...
Large protests have become a rarity in Egypt since the harsh (anti-)protest law was implemented in 2013 and scores of demonstrators were subsequently arrested...