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Imagine that you are a peaceful protestor, never having broken glass or drawn blood, who demonstrated against institutional racism and police brutality in your local area. At home one...
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Conflicts are meant to involve the living, with the dead being long withdrawn from the complex web of political alliances and bloody feuds that mankind revels in. So when...
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On 19 May, 1935, Thomas Edward Lawrence passed away following a week of remaining in a coma caused by a motorcycle crash in Dorset, England. The British Arabist, linguist,...
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Syria has undergone more drastic and chaotic shifts within the past month than it probably has throughout the past nine years of its conflict. The House of Assad now suffers...
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Long before Turkey's revenge attacks against the Syrian regime in February, and even before the regime's offensive to recapture Idlib and its bombardment of the province, Turkey and Russia...
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The coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic has caused countless events to be cancelled, forcing them onto the digital realm and leaving them to rely on the power of modern technology. Even...
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In 2017, Abu Dhabi's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan told a forum that, "There will come a day that we will see far more radicals, extremists and terrorists...
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A chemical weapons attack was carried out on the people of Douma, south-western Syria, killing around 85 people
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Over the past few weeks of the coronavirus crisis, democratic governments around the world have imposed stricter controls on their citizens in more places than at any other time...
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At the beginning of this month, pro-Assad journalist Rafiq Lutf wrote on Twitter that he had discovered many people infected with the coronavirus in Syria. He said that that...
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The Middle East has seen some bad deals in recent years; some are still in effect while others have crumbled. The agreement struck between Russia and Turkey last week...
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After nine long years, Turkey has finally punished the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad, with the dictator ignoring Ankara's ultimatum to withdraw his troops Idlib province by the end...
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Since the first stages of European colonisation of the Middle East, as with other imperial powers elsewhere, there has been resistance in one form or another. This has been...
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Ever since the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad responded to peaceful popular protests in the country with a brutal military crackdown in 2011, the ensuing civil war has witnessed...
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Relations between the European Union and Turkey have seldom been good. Throughout Turkey's efforts to join the EU over the past few decades to the current tension, Europe has...
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The killing of Iran's Major General Qassem Soleimani by the US in Baghdad has been met with mixed reactions around the world. Some have expressed their grief, while others...
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This New Year will mark a century since the historic Treaty of Versailles was put into effect, creating the borders of much of the contemporary world and enabling the...
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A revolution is a project. Like all projects, it has requirements before it can truly be deemed successful. For a start, there must be popular resentment of the government...
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There are few political enigmas these days – strongmen, yes, but not enigmas. We have US President Donald Trump, who is far from it; we have UK Prime Minister...
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'We will remain in Jerusalem, defending our religious sites and endowments. We reject the policies of the occupation. We will not surrender'
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Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territory, as well as the efforts that Israel goes to to impose second-class citizen status on Palestinian citizens and inhabitants of the occupied West...
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What: Religious extremists in Saudi Arabia under the charismatic leadership of man disgruntled with Western access to the Kingdom, took over the Grand Mosque of Makkah for two weeks....
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Turkey has long been perceived to be undergoing a struggle between the secular and the religious. The population in its Anatolian heartland and east is generally more religious and...
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A current has swept throughout the Levant from a subtly-felt but well recognised influence. From the protests in Iraq and Lebanon to the Sunni insurgents and opposition groups in...
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"Who created you? Who is your God? Who do you pray to?" asked a Syrian regime soldier to a man he was torturing and beating in a small dank...
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Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow and death left a void in the region as well as Libya, which has yet to be filled.
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A nation's image is usually only as good as its achievements, so it is a sad time when the image that appears in many minds when hearing the name...
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According to US-based Imam Siraj Wahhaj, "We need a centralised leadership, and that's the key." He said this in a speech at a recent event in New York, hosted...
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When discussing the Palestinian cause from the Nakba to the Great March of Return, many things spring to mind: the phenomenon of Zionism and its gradual takeover of Palestine;...
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What makes a regime and its ruler legitimate? The question has long been on the minds of the greatest philosophers and political scientists stretching from ancient Greece to the...
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When a twenty-six-year old Tunisian vegetable vendor set himself on fire in front of a government building after being slapped by a police officer for not having his cart...
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"There is no national feeling. Between town and town, village and village, family and family, creed and creed, exist intimate jealousies… to render a spontaneous union impossible. The largest...