The Dawn of the Third Intifada
Recent coverage of Israel and Palestine has focused on the new Netanyahu government’s efforts to weaken Israel’s supreme court, expand settlements in the West B...
Category: Middle East
Israel’s Campaign Against Palestinian Olive Trees
“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears”– Mahmoud Darwish Olive Oil and Life Olive trees have been a key ...
Human Rights in the 2022 Qatar World Cup: No Humans Left
Sports and politics have always gone together, especially when the event is as global as the world cup. While most people believe in football’s reforming power ...
The Ongoing Fight for Abortion Rights in Morocco
Moroccan protestors gathered outside of parliament in Rabat with hundreds of signs that read “We are all Meriem.” Meriem was the latest victim of Morocco’s stri...
In the Middle East, Some Human Rights Are More Equal than Others
On September 13, 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini was detained by Iran’s morality police. The accusation? Wearing her hijab in a way that made some of her hair vi...
Invisible Women: What Happens When the Taliban Take Away Education’s ‘Visibility’ Superpower from Afghan Women
An Unconventional Approach to US & UN Involvement in Afghanistan Kabul, Afghanistan. History repeats itself as on a normal school day, girls are sent back h...
A Bilingual Bourgeois: The Class Politics behind Morocco’s Language Debate
“Je ne connais pas l’arabe”—I don’t speak Arabic. While the former Moroccan education minister didn’t realize it at the time, these seemingly innocuous words wo...
Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change
In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...
Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal
From the onset of the Biden presidency, the administration has promised the American people a renewed agreement, or “Iran Deal,” to cull nuclear proliferation b...
A Precarious Situation: The Taliban’s Uyghur Dilemma
Since the Taliban’s return to power, the U.S. Federal Reserve has frozen just under $10 billion of Afghanistan’s assets. With a harsh winter about to settle in,...