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Items by Dr Sahar Huneidi
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The heirs of the Nizamiyyah: Persian patience, American hubris
In the 11th century, the Persian statesman Nizam al-Mulk (Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi, born in Khurasan in 1018) built an empire not with swords alone, but with schools. He served as grand Vizier for two famous Seljuk sultans: Alp Arslan, and Malik Shah I from 1063-1092. The Nizamiyyah…
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The mandate to speak: Before the world goes dark
In 2017, twenty-seven psychiatrists and mental health professionals broke their profession’s long standing ‘Goldwater rule’ against diagnosing public figures from afar. They published a book titled The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, and in it, they wrote a sentence that should have stopped the world cold: ‘Trump is now the…
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Fascism for the digital age
Old-school fascism controlled the press with a fist; the new version controls the data with a contract. When the state and the corporation agree on which words—and which images—are ‘dangerous,’ the truth is not only suppressed; it is simply made unsearchable. The official American narrative of the ‘miraculous’ rescue mission…
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The carrier of creative chaos
On March 31, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush departed naval station Norfolk in Virginia, bound for the Middle East to join the other three carriers (USS Lincoln, Tripoli and New Orleans) as American and Israeli air strikes against Iran enter their second month. The name alone forces us…
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Genghis Khan is in the Cockpit
When a man with an active arrest warrant for war crimes stands at a podium and explains that ‘Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan’, because, in the end, ruthlessness beats goodness, you might expect a reaction. A gasp . A shudder. Perhaps even a word of reproach…
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The architects of post-truth: How Netanyahu and Trump are scripting the Apocalypse
For decades, American foreign policy was built on a hybrid of realism, self -interest and idealism. Today, it is being rebuilt on the hallucinatory terrain of a ‘post-truth’ era where Benjamin Netanyahu acts as the master architect. By framing a modern regional war as a biblical struggle against ‘Amalek’, Netanyahu…
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The prophecy and the profiteers: How Lindsey Graham, Paula White-Cain and Netanyahu sold America a holy war
In mid-February 2026, Senator Lindsey Graham stood before cameras in Tel Aviv and delivered what he called one of his ‘most consequential messages of his political career. The United States, he declared, was ‘weeks, not months’ from a decision on Iran. There was ‘no light’ [meaning total strategic alliance] between…
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From Madame Claude’s Salon to Epstein’s Island: The unchanging currency of power
The most telling image of the Jeffery Epstein saga is not of a private jet or a tropical island. It is the photograph of the frail, brilliant astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking, surrounded by fellow scientists, on that very island in 2006. The cognitive dissonance is staggering: What was the world’s pre-eminent…
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Jared Kushner and the age of modern buccaneering
The classic 17th-century buccaneer was not a simple pirate; he was a hybrid figure who operated in the grey area between state-sanctioned privateering and outright piracy. He used his connections with powerful governments to secure a “Letter of Marque” that legitimised his plunder, all the while lining his pockets. This…
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The return of ‘Lord Blair of Kut-el-Amara’
Anyone old enough may remember Robert Fisk, the late and acclaimed British journalist, bestowing the title ‘Lord Blair’ on the (still very much alive) former prime minister, in sarcastic acknowledgement of his blood soaked role including his services rendered in the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq and also the…