Opinion

At an agricultural storage complex in the Egyptian city of Banha, Ahmed Nasser watches truck after truck offload freshly-threshed grain from the surrounding Nile Delta. Cut off from much...

The main takeaway from this year's Davos conference was best expressed by the US Vermont independent senator and former presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders when he said; "The oligarchs party...

As the sole Lebanese armed faction from the country's civil war implicitly allowed to retain its arsenal in accordance with the 1989 Taif Accord that ended the conflict, the...

Contrary to its precedents, the prospects for a new Turkish intervention into Syrian territory seem linked to more diverse and complex determinants. In addition to the positions of Moscow...

When Palestinians speak of their ongoing Nakba (Catastrophe), they are imparting a political consciousness which the international community refuses to recognise. For world leaders, diplomats and international organisations, Palestine...

The British Empire once ruled over a quarter of the world's population, from North America to India and from interior Africa to the Middle East. This June, the UK...

The Israeli government took note of the statement issued by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, which condemned an Israeli court's decision to allow extremists to...

It does not seem that either of the sides in the Iraqi crisis, the Sadrist Movement or the Coordination Framework, have the desire to put an end to the...

President Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to carry out a new military incursion on Turkiye's southern borders has triggered speculation about potential targets, with the Syrian town of Tal Rifaat emerging...

Millions of Pakistanis are being asked to converge on the capital Islamabad by charismatic ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan and his supporters who claim that he was removed from...

It all started with a simple conversation among Palestinian artists some twenty years ago. It was right after the outbreak of the Second Intifada that some of the most...

A subtle shift in official US statements suggests Washington believes reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is better than the alternatives, despite the advances in Iran's nuclear program, diplomatic...

President Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to launch military operations soon to expand safe zones already set up across Turkiye's southern borders has raised the stakes in his row with NATO...

Concern about the election of Australia's new left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his political stance on Israel is already making news in local and Israeli media. Outgoing Prime...

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is facing a backlash after a group of Palestinian academics criticised her decision to embrace the working definition of anti-Semitism prepared by the International...

Lebanon's parliamentary election is being observed with great interest around the world due to the nature of the state and its important strategic location next to Israel. The presence...

The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That...

The last session of the World Social Forum wrapped up on 6 May in Mexico City, reporting the silencing of two further Palestinian voices who should have been present...

When the Turkish Republic was established, the majority of African countries were under colonial rule. During this period, the newly established republic had more imminent domestic priorities, such as...

Dozens of people waving Palestinian flags gathered in the city of Recife, in Pernambuco State in Brazil on Saturday to celebrate the naming and unveiling of "Palestine Square". The...

Arab Israeli parliamentarian Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi, of Meretz, announced her resignation from the coalition government in Israel without prior notice. Her departure put the life of the teetering coalition at...

Respected Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed whilst covering a story in the Jenin refugee camp for Al Jazeera English. The veteran reporter was hit by a single...

It was understandable why, on 29 November, 1947, the United Nations (UN) passed Resolution 181, partitioning Palestine and creating a Jewish state. In the wake of the Holocaust, there...

There are two kinds of Americans: those to whom America rushes for help and others whom America turns its back on and turns a blind eye to their tragedy....

The report titled "NATO 2030: Unity for a New Age", which was discussed at the NATO leaders' summit in Brussels on 14 June, 2021, showed that a new concept...

One of the many myths underpinning western support for Israel's colonisation of Palestine is that its Jews live in a perpetual state of hostility with the region's Muslims. Despite...

Women impacted by war and conflict are made to overcome a number of immense challenges. Rape and sexual violence, for example, are commonly used as weapons of war to...

Israeli Knesset's summer sessions began a few days ago and so did internal debate over the future of the government and its fate, amid the opposition's threats to topple...

The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, has never been occupied by a woman. Until 1...

The Arab and Islamic world, with its Sunni majority, did not look at the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran through a sectarian lens. Ayatollah Khomeini was seen...

Undercover Israeli forces raided a popular park in the village of Dura Al-Qara, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on Tuesday and arrested seven Palestinian students...

"In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared during a visit to the illegal Elkana...