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January 18, 2022 |
Muhammad Hussein Almost two years ago, I penned an article highlighting the possibility of governments around the world – particularly Western democracies – using the spreading Covid-19 pandemic to implement a...
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January 5, 2022 |
Muhammad Hussein Two years after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in a US missile attack at Baghdad Airport, the legacy of the late commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
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December 14, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Barely eight decades ago, while it was fighting the Nazis' fascism, the British government under Winston Churchill was simultaneously orchestrating and engineering one of the worst famines in human...
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December 3, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Everything in existence will be assimilated into the online world. Some things already have been. This has proven true with business, shopping, services, social life, journalism, warfare and with...
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Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event.
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November 24, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Few politicians in Britain's ruling Conservative Party are as controversial and unpopular as Home Secretary Priti Patel. Not the former health minister Matt Hancock, not the housing and communities...
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November 8, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Almost two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic it is worth reviewing what has happened. With lockdowns around the world, preventative measures varied from country to country;...
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November 1, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein If there was one figure central to postcolonial studies and the intellectual force behind the Palestinian meeting with Western academia, it was undoubtedly the late Edward W Said. Although...
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October 26, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein What: The signing of a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, which ended over four decades of conflict. When: 26 October 1994 Where: Wadi Araba, Jordan-Israel border What happened?...
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October 21, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...
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October 10, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Over the course of the ongoing decade-long Syrian conflict, documentation of the war and its effects has always been desired by the outside world
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September 28, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Lebanon has had a rough ride over the past year: the failure to secure a viable government; the catastrophic Beirut blast; then the economic crash which caused its currency...
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September 13, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...
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September 1, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Ever since the stabbing of a Turk by two Syrian refugees in the Altindag neighbourhood of Ankara in early August, relations between the two communities have changed. Almost a...
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August 24, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Israel's apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel's officially-recognised borders — which the state has never actually declared — as well as across the occupied...
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August 17, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein When provincial capitals fell one after another last week, surrendering to the Taliban and relinquishing the glittering mansions of the warlords who fled the country, it was clear to...
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August 13, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein When the extent of former British Prime Minister David Cameron's involvement in lobbying for the investment company Greensill Capital was revealed by the BBC's "Panorama" programme this week, the...
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August 2, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein When the Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the country's government a week ago, everyone knew it would be a turning point in the North African state's history, just not...
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July 20, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein What: Turkey's invasion of the north of Cyprus following a military coup which aimed to annex the island to Greece When: 20 July 1974 Where: Cyprus What happened? Upon...
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The last official border crossing open for humanitarian aid to get into north-west Syria is about to close. The lives of almost four million people – including the displaced...
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June 23, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Military withdrawals announced by the United States don't always happen the way that we expect them to. They are either drawn-out over a number of years, during which they...
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June 15, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein In Syria's north-west, a renewed military offensive has apparently been long overdue. Since the very signing of the ceasefire deal between Russia and Turkey on behalf of the Syrian...
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The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has – despite Israeli forces sabotaging the peace with a raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – held so far, officially at least. In...
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Every year, usually during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as if Palestinians are somehow unreactive without food in their stomachs, Israel does something that makes its security forces...
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April 30, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Influential American academic Noam Chomsky asked what he called a "simple question" in a recent interview with the journalist Ezra Klein for the New York Times: "Is the situation...
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April 21, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...
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April 7, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Much has been speculated regarding Britain's Muslim community over the years, from the alleged rise of extremism to the overall state of the community within the wider British society....
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March 11, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein After almost two decades of conflict, instability and bad government, a wave of excitement swept through Iraq last week with the long-awaited spectacle of hope and revival that was...
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March 10, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Watch out interview with the CEO of the Syrian news outlet Deir Ezzor 24
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February 26, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein His disillusion with Israel reportedly began when he toured the country in the 1980s for research purposes.
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February 17, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein This month, the United States removed the Houthis from its list of designated terrorist groups, a decision thought wise by the administration of President Joe Biden. That move, more...
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February 2, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein In recent months, the public's eyes have been opened to the growing threat that technology and social media companies pose, realising with shock the extent to which the companies...
![People gather to protest against the failure to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on 13 February 2021 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210213_2_46858996_62488745.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Almost two years ago, I penned an article highlighting the possibility of governments around the world – particularly Western democracies – using the spreading Covid-19 pandemic to implement a...![People gather for a commemoration ceremony during a vigil marking the second anniversary of killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone attack at at Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran, Iran on 3 January 2022. [Fatemeh Bahrami - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20220103_2_51576914_72202666.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Two years after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in a US missile attack at Baghdad Airport, the legacy of the late commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Barely eight decades ago, while it was fighting the Nazis' fascism, the British government under Winston Churchill was simultaneously orchestrating and engineering one of the worst famines in human...![A visual representation of digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin is displayed on 16 February 2018 in Paris, France. [Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-919078630.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Everything in existence will be assimilated into the online world. Some things already have been. This has proven true with business, shopping, services, social life, journalism, warfare and with...
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event.![Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel arrives to attend a requiem mass for Conservative MP David Amess at Westminster Cathedral in London on 23 November 2021. [NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1236750596.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Few politicians in Britain's ruling Conservative Party are as controversial and unpopular as Home Secretary Priti Patel. Not the former health minister Matt Hancock, not the housing and communities...![Workers wear medical face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in in Beirut, Lebanon on 26 March 2020 [Daniel Carde/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1208271248.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Almost two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic it is worth reviewing what has happened. With lockdowns around the world, preventative measures varied from country to country;...
If there was one figure central to postcolonial studies and the intellectual force behind the Palestinian meeting with Western academia, it was undoubtedly the late Edward W Said. Although...
What: The signing of a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, which ended over four decades of conflict. When: 26 October 1994 Where: Wadi Araba, Jordan-Israel border What happened?...![Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus, Syria on 11 February 2016 [JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Bashar-al-Assad.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...
Over the course of the ongoing decade-long Syrian conflict, documentation of the war and its effects has always been desired by the outside world![People raise portraits of the head of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, as they gather to welcome tankers carrying Iranian fuel, upon their arrival from Syria in the city of Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on September 16, 2021 [AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1235290100-scaled-e1632816938847.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Lebanon has had a rough ride over the past year: the failure to secure a viable government; the catastrophic Beirut blast; then the economic crash which caused its currency...![Plumes of smoke can be seen from the World Trade Center towers in New York City during the 9/11 attacks [Michael Foran/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2001_9_11-9-11WTC_smoking_on_9-11.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...![A baby is seen in his mother arms as Syrian refugees pass through Oncupinar border gate to reach their hometowns before Eid al-Adha in Kilis, Turkey on 29 August, 2017 [Ensar Özdemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170829_2_25490005_25368185.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since the stabbing of a Turk by two Syrian refugees in the Altindag neighbourhood of Ankara in early August, relations between the two communities have changed. Almost a...![Palestinian boys stand outside the entrance of street artist Banksy's newly opened Walled Off hotel in the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem, on March 3, 2017 [THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-647554908-scaled-e1629817014916.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel's officially-recognised borders — which the state has never actually declared — as well as across the occupied...
When provincial capitals fell one after another last week, surrendering to the Taliban and relinquishing the glittering mansions of the warlords who fled the country, it was clear to...![David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister, in Cheltenham, England on 5 October 2019 [David Levenson/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1173853709.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the extent of former British Prime Minister David Cameron's involvement in lobbying for the investment company Greensill Capital was revealed by the BBC's "Panorama" programme this week, the...![Supporters of Ennahda Movement in Tunis, Tunisia, on 27 February 2021. [Yassine Gaidi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210227_2_47084776_62919382.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the country's government a week ago, everyone knew it would be a turning point in the North African state's history, just not...
What: Turkey's invasion of the north of Cyprus following a military coup which aimed to annex the island to Greece When: 20 July 1974 Where: Cyprus What happened? Upon...![Syrians taking shelter in a camp in in Idlib, Syria on June 30, 2021 [ Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Idlib-refugees-demand-keeping-Syria-Turkey-crossing-open-for-aid_4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The last official border crossing open for humanitarian aid to get into north-west Syria is about to close. The lives of almost four million people – including the displaced...![US Army soldiers walk to their C-17 cargo plane for departure May 11, 2013 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan [Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-483252999.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Military withdrawals announced by the United States don't always happen the way that we expect them to. They are either drawn-out over a number of years, during which they...![A Syrian boy looks at blood stains and shoes left behind next to a charred car, hit in reported bombardment by government forces on the village of Iblin in the Jabal al-Zawiya region in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on June 10, 2021 [ABDULAZIZ KETAZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233367925-scaled-e1623771196582.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In Syria's north-west, a renewed military offensive has apparently been long overdue. Since the very signing of the ceasefire deal between Russia and Turkey on behalf of the Syrian...
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has – despite Israeli forces sabotaging the peace with a raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – held so far, officially at least. In...![Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian protesters during an anti-Israel protest over tension in Jerusalem, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on May 12, 2021 [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1232831091-scaled-e1620833797201.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Every year, usually during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as if Palestinians are somehow unreactive without food in their stomachs, Israel does something that makes its security forces...![Protesters wear masks during a protest against the Chinese government's policies and oppressions towards Uyghurs in front of Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Germany on 23 January 2021 [Abdulhamid Hoşbaş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Nassima-20210123_2_46521893_61874458.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Influential American academic Noam Chomsky asked what he called a "simple question" in a recent interview with the journalist Ezra Klein for the New York Times: "Is the situation...![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan exchange documents during a signing ceremony following their meeting in Kiev on February 3, 2020 [SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1198370153-scaled-e1618993310397.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...![Author William Shawcross with his Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO) medal, presented by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on March 10, 2011 in London, United Kingdom [Dominic Lipinski/WPA Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-109915608-scaled-e1617786055506.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Much has been speculated regarding Britain's Muslim community over the years, from the alleged rise of extremism to the overall state of the community within the wider British society....![Pope Francis (C) attends the ceremony at Church Square of Hosh al-Bieaa in Mosul, Iraq on March 7, 2021 [Osama Al Maqdoni / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210307_2_47210951_63156093.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
After almost two decades of conflict, instability and bad government, a wave of excitement swept through Iraq last week with the long-awaited spectacle of hope and revival that was...
Watch out interview with the CEO of the Syrian news outlet Deir Ezzor 24
His disillusion with Israel reportedly began when he toured the country in the 1980s for research purposes.![Supporters of Houthis participate in march on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Houthis' control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on September 21, 2019 [Mohammed Hamoud / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190922_2_38336427_47805208.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
This month, the United States removed the Houthis from its list of designated terrorist groups, a decision thought wise by the administration of President Joe Biden. That move, more...![A picture representing a mugshot of the twitter bird is seen on a smart phone with a Turkish flag on March 26, 2014 in Istanbul [OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-480649813.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In recent months, the public's eyes have been opened to the growing threat that technology and social media companies pose, realising with shock the extent to which the companies...