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 ...
Category: Middle East
Our Middle East North Africa desk (MENA) covers the region of the Mediterranean from Morocco up to and including Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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...
Noam Chomsky on protests in Iran, crisis in Haiti, U.S. actions in Taiwan, and more
Considered the father of modern linguistics and one of the most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive s...
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...
Will Lebanon Truly Overcome its Banking Crisis?
“They want us to fight with the army? We are the army!” Hundreds of Lebanese veterans stormed the parliament, protesting for higher pensions. Lebanese security ...
The Abraham Accords and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: Unrelated, Unchanging, Uninterested
Please note: the views expressed within are part of an intellectual exercise and do not necessarily reflect the personal views of the author. It is unlikely tha...
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...
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,...