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Any attempt to predict with confidence what America's foreign policy in relation to the Middle East will be during the presidency of Donald Trump is fraught with problems. On...

Perhaps the main losers of the American election, besides Donald Trump's own voters, are the Palestinians. Meaning, of course, that the Israelis are among the big winners. Trump, who...

Much has been said about the role that the Israeli Supreme Court and the judiciary generally have played in Judaising the Palestinian space, by confirming Israeli governmental practices of...

After the Republic of Turkey was established on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, its founding fathers decided to cut ties with the region and the wider Arab and...

When he was in South Africa in July 2014, Omar Barghouti told a story about the Second Intifada. It was the early 2000s, a decade which had started with...

On 6 July, more than 13 years after the British government joined the USA, Australia and Poland in invading Iraq with the stated purpose of removing Saddam Hussein's weapons...

The anti-Semitism row within the Labour Party is part of a broader Israeli campaign which asserts that opposition to Zionism or the "right of Israel to exist" – which...

One would have expected from young democracies some empathy towards the Syrian uprising. However, South American governments have shown indifference at best, if not explicit support for Syrian President...

Over the past decade I've been looking into how The Racket – a global network of multinational companies, investors and multilateral institutions – control policy across our world, and...

Speaking with high-school students recently, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon averred that Breaking the Silence—an NGO made up of Israeli Defence Force (IDF) veterans who collect testimonies from discharged...

The ceasefire in Syria has not paused the war being waged by EU member states against Islamic State (IS) in that country. The air forces of France, Britain and...

The growth of locally-based television channels is beginning to counter the narrative that has dominated the media coverage of the Middle East. Some television programmes depicting a normal life...

The anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders offers an opportunity to reflect on what has been a turbulent year, especially in France but elsewhere too. Personally speaking, such reflections...

Nafeez Ahmed, PhD, is an investigative journalist, international security scholar and best-selling author who tracks what he calls the 'crisis of civilization'. He is a winner of the Project...

Most of the discussion involving ISIS, the self-declared Islamic State, revolves around one thing. As the Romans said of their powerful enemy, delenda Carthago: Carthage must be destroyed. On...

By the early 1990s it seemed that significant progress had been made to reach agreements in what were considered to be the world’s three main political hotspots – Northern...

No issue has been so much at the heart of the Palestine cause, or so resistant to resolution, as the right of return. Palestinians world wide see it as...

It's difficult to say exactly when the taboo was broken. Was it when former US President Jimmy Carter put the word "apartheid" in the title of his book to...

Syria was once the jewel in the crown of Turkey's "zero problems with neighbours" policy. However, the Arab Spring and Syrian revolution not only devastated that policy but also...

The outcome of the 'Arab Spring' or 'Arab Awakening', as many inside the region prefer to call it, has been very different from the original expectations of those who...

The Europeans have been forging an increasingly specific policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, centred on the Green (1949 Armistice) Line as the provisional border between Israel and Palestine. While...

Dr Dimitris Bouris is a Research Fellow at the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, at the College of Europe (Natolin). He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and...

Yaşar Yakış is the former foreign minister of Turkey, and a former ambassador to the UN Office in Vienna, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. The evolution of democracy in the...

It has emerged that US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Palestinian Authority, possibly even used the threat of sanctions, not to ratify the Rome Statute of...

Prof Emma Murphy is the Head of School in the School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham In September 2014, Arab labour ministers met with representatives of...

Democracy was the key word during the Arab Spring demonstrations of 2011. Rather than violent uprisings, they were protests calling for free elections, parliaments and, more generally, a stake...

The Egyptian, Saudi and other Arab "moderates" position on the Gaza war has been presented in most media discussion and political analysis as a striking departure from previous policy...

Propaganda for world consumption aside, Israelis have never minced their words about their ultimate aim of Eretz Israel, so-called "Greater Israel", from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan. This...

It was the start of another day for the UNRWA team in Syria. Our convoy entered the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus on 31 January where,...

After the US president announced the need to stop the Palestine-Israel negotiations for a while in order to reflect on what has happened and study the alternatives suggested by...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES IslamExpo has held a dinner in honour of the ex-Director General of the Al-Jazeera Network at which Wadah Khanfar was congratulated for his impressive tenure at the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that he has discovered the recipe to ensure that legitimacy is given to his refusal to withdraw from the West Bank while, at...