I am not sure about the credibility of the photo of former Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi that appears to confirm that he was assaulted in the presidential Carthage...

Recent footage of Afghan refugees trying to escape from Afghanistan's Taliban and trying to cross the Iran border into Turkey reminded me of the words of Zygmunt Bauman. The...

Two Arab athletes at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games made headlines when they pulled out rather than participate alongside their Israeli counterparts. A third, however, was celebrated by...

There is no doubt that the coup led by President Kais Saied in Tunisia has caused a major tremor in Arab societies yearning for freedom and democracy. They could...

It seems that Israel is being successful in creating an international strategy to punish Iran for targeting one of its oil tankers. It's done so by obtaining recognition from...

The establishment of a Constitutional Court in Tunisia has been hindered since 2014. It is a judiciary institution that was supposed to have been established no more than one...

When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five athletes – adorned in traditional Palestinian attire and carrying the Palestinian flag – crossed into Tokyo's Olympic Stadium during the inauguration ceremony...

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...

The plans to sneak Israel quietly into the African Union as an observer state appear to have backfired spectacularly. Israeli celebrations may be premature as Algeria, one of Palestine's...

With Tunisian President Kais Saied seizing power, in what has been called a coup by the country's largest political party, it seems that the last stronghold of democracy in...

"I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious." Those are the words of Mohammed El-Kurd, the renowned Palestinian activist...

Tunisian society is still in shock after President Kais Saied's decision to sack the prime minister and freeze parliament. Few expected the elected president to use democratic mechanisms to...

The founders of Ben & Jerry's doubled down on the company's decision to end business in the Israeli occupied West Bank with a compelling article in the New York...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied surprised everybody, inside the country and outside, by his announcement on Sunday to suspend the parliament, annul MPs immunity, dismiss the prime minister and take...

Tunisia is the answer. This is, and has been, what we've been saying and believing all along. Even before writing this article, Tunisia was the answer to all possible...

Ben & Jerry's decision to suspend its operations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is an event that is proving critical to Palestinian efforts, which ultimately aim at holding...

Let's stop all the hand wringing and angst over Afghanistan. Now. It's fooling no one. America, Britain and their NATO allies have had 20 years to help put the...

Article 80 of Tunisia's 2014 Constitution has been cited by President Kais Saied to justify what is being described as a "coup" in the country on Sunday. The text...

Lebanon's Saad Hariri has finally apologised for only forming the government nine months after President Michel Aoun tasked him with this mission. However, Aoun rejected the ministers proposed by...

Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to pray inside Al-Aqsa Mosque have once again highlighted the debate about Jerusalemites and Sheikh Jarrah...

The giant American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's announced last week that it is going to stop selling its products in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West...

It's not that long ago that people were preoccupied with the hacking of some social media sites, including those believed to be immune from such things, such as Facebook,...

Do you remember the UN Millennium Development Goals? If not, you are not alone. These ambitious goals included the eradication of "extreme poverty and hunger", "combating lethal diseases" and...

A landmark victory in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement's (BDS) campaign against Israel came on Monday, with an announcement from Ben and Jerry's. After years of BDS campaign...

Beita is the only village around southern Nablus that does not have an illegal Israeli settlement built on its land. The Palestinians are determined to keep it that way....

The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced yesterday that it has regained its observer status at the African Union. Until 2002, the colonial state was an observer member of the Organisation...

In recent years, the Gaza Strip has known only three periodic orders: destroy, rebuild, repeat. Yet the enclave once had a thriving export-oriented economy with assets that continue to...

In 1974, Richard Nixon was impeached after being caught bugging his opponents at the Watergate Hotel in one of the twentieth century's most explosive scandals. In comparison, the Pegasus...

Qatar has continued to set political and other trends in the Middle East. The small oil and gas rich Gulf state launched Al Jazeera TV in 1996, for example,...

Twenty years have passed since the US invasion of Afghanistan, President George W Bush's response to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the responsibility...

"I wish I could wake up one day and find that Gaza has sunk into the sea." That quote is attributed to Israel's late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He...

There was a time when football was just a beautiful game with 22 players kicking a leather ball from one end of the pitch to another while supporters cheered...