Decisions to go to war don’t just analyze whether we can win. That is the easy part: the superiority of the western military machine makes this an absolute.

In ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary realities of Syrian women refugees, whose experiences of war and exile have often been ignored

In Not The Chilcot Report (Head of Zeus books), Peter Oborne makes clear the erosion of trust between the British state and its public, as a result of the Iraq war.

By choosing not to vote, I am opting out of choosing whose life, whose community, I view as expendable. I cannot stop the next attack, or the one after that.

The reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular campaigns to shame those who use embodied concepts of honour politically.

The Bedouin and rural communities in the Jordan Valley are remote from the conflict, yet key victims of a campaign of oppression.

Jerusalem is not just a site of ‘conflict’, as the INOGS conference programme says. It is a site in which questions of ‘genocide’, the deliberate destruction of communities, are all too live.

Is optimism in the future of revolutionary change misplaced in a region torn apart by war and a society where patriarchy has been so entrenched?  Part 6 of Witnessing the Rojava revolution.

We can fundamentally transform our understanding of the Iranian revolution by letting the untold stories to be told.

Shadi Hamid's claims that the Western war in Libya went well ignore significant evidence of disaster.

رغم أن الحرب الباردة كانت بالوكالة بين الولايات المتحدة والإتحاد السوفيتي، إلا أنها كانت مباشرة بين الأمريكيين أنفسهم، مَنْ يظنون أنفسهم حماة الفكر الأمريكي الحر في مواجهة الشرور الشيوعية الحمراء، ولم يتوقف الأمر عند الساسة فقط بل طال أيضـًا الفنانين. 

In Egypt, both the ruling elites and the urban middle class cling to the military regime, in the hope that they will be protected from a seemingly inevitable tide of social unrest.

The demands pushed forward in both parts of Kurdistan are almost identical, both demonstrating an attempt at formally installing a confederal municipal system into the region.

This is a revolution in consciousness, not only in politics, and it has transformed the lives of countless women and men for generations to come.

Commemorating the Nakba and protecting refugee camps are entwined and equally critical endeavors: without historical accountability, without identifying perpetrators and victims, there is no redemption.

Five years ago Syria’s uprising began and the ensuing war forced millions to flee to neighboring Jordan, a land whose present holds some lessons for Europe’s future.

Attempting to defeat IS without beginning to address the political and structural failures that have led to these circumstances borders on the ridiculous.