In a February speech at the Brookings Institute, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the Obama administration’s strategy for countering...

If attracting attention makes a protest successful, then displaying menstrual pads is not a bad way to start. On April 7 and 8, students at Beaconhouse...

A perfect storm is brewing in Europe's on-going refugee crisis. The cease-fire in Syria collapsed this past week, the brand-new government in Libya seems...

The wave of Islamophobia erupting across the United States has taken a toll on every aspect of Muslim American life. A climate of fear has emerged in the...

Dear Muftah Readers, We are turning a new chapter. After almost six years of being entirely self-funded, we are bringing advertisement to Muftah in the hope...

In February 2016, the Central Eurasian Scholars and Media Initiative (CESMI) - whose stated goal is to create “a better informed and more constructive public...

Talking torture in the United States can sometimes sound a bit clinical. Words like “isolation,” “exposure,” “method,” and “technique” are all...

At first glance, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Central Asia appear to be remarkably similar. Both have recently experienced colonial rule; MENA...

subsidBusy as we are from childhood tilling Mother Earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads. Our only trouble is that we haven't...

When the Arab Spring erupted in late 2011, many analysts predicted the violence would spread to Central Asia. Like many Middle Eastern states, Central Asian...

The past two weeks have been particularly terrible for humanity. From the bombings in Ankara, Istanbul, Brussels, and Baghdad, to the EU's inhumane refugee...

The Israeli Ministry of Tourism is removing Palestinian culture from the map, in the most literal sense. Last month, a new English-language guide to...

Last week, I wrote about some of the ways Israel and its lobbying groups in the United States are engaged in egregious historical revisionism. Whether...

In a new letter, twenty-six human rights activists from the Middle East and North Africa have asked U.S. President Barack Obama to pay greater attention to...

In a piece published by Counterpunch last December, Marek Sullivan sagaciously argued that the New Atheist and neuroscientist, Sam Harris, must live in a...