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Category: Middle East

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a meeting. Photo: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock
Middle East

The Dawn of the Third Intifada

Posted on March 2023 by Alex Greene

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...

Global Issue/Middle East

Israel’s Campaign Against Palestinian Olive Trees

Posted on March 2023 by Layla Hedroug

“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 ...

Comments/Middle East

Human Rights in the 2022 Qatar World Cup: No Humans Left

Posted on February 2023 by Lilia Chatalbasheva

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 ...

Africa/Africa/Global Issue/Middle East

The Ongoing Fight for Abortion Rights in Morocco

Posted on January 2023 by Layla Hedroug

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...

Comments/Middle East

In the Middle East, Some Human Rights Are More Equal than Others

Posted on January 2023 by Beckett Pechon-Elkins

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...

Comments/Middle East

Invisible Women: What Happens When the Taliban Take Away Education’s ‘Visibility’ Superpower from Afghan Women

Posted on December 2022 by Lilia Chatalbasheva

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...

Comments/Middle East

A Bilingual Bourgeois: The Class Politics behind Morocco’s Language Debate

Posted on November 2022 by Beckett Pechon-Elkins

“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...

Africa/Americas/Asia/Comments/Europe/Middle East

Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change

Posted on November 2022 by Ethan Chiu / 0 Comment

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 ...

Comments/Middle East

Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal

Posted on April 2022 by Rohan Krishnan

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...

Asia/Comments/Middle East

A Precarious Situation: The Taliban’s Uyghur Dilemma

Posted on January 2022 by Ahmed Almoaswes

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,...

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