On the water-dappled cobblestone path, which I stand upon and amidst the busy Berlin traffic, runs a narrow pebble strip. When I look to either side of this strip, life seems almost identical but our tour guide tells us otherwi...
The Middle East has always been home to vibrant Jewish communities, whose history in the region dates back more than 3,000 years. Despite occasional bouts of tension, Jews were generally permitted to practice their religion pea...
When Amy Logan first learned that Druze women and girls live in fear of honor killing, she herself was involved in a physically and verbally abusive relationship. She found herself identifying profoundly with these women, and...
Commemorated by none, forgotten by most, and unknown to many in the West, the story of the United Arab Republic is nowadays relegated to the footnotes of Cold War histories. Way back in 1958 the governments of Egypt and Syria ...
The 7th July attack on the Egyptian North Sinai gas pipeline constitutes just one of a dozen such attacks since the removal of Mubarak. Worryingly though, this was the boldest and most carefully planned to date, providing an om...
The Prawer Law affects the Arab population of the Naqab area (Negev). Also known as the Bedouins, they constitute a semi-nomadic Arab population that had inhabited the southern desert of Israel long before Israel was establishe...
Five Broken Cameras, a documentary nominated for the 2013 Oscars, has been acclaimed as the most successful video of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Perhaps equally as significant however was the footage of the documentary bei...
The Israeli public largely objects to the current policy of allowing ultra-orthodox Jewish youth to avoid army service, but the rule has long been upheld thanks to political power play. Now, for the first time in 18 years, an I...
President Obama’s visit to Israel and to Palestine (the West Bank occupied territory), hailed in Washington as a turning point in American-Israeli relations, did not have the same resonance with Palestinians. In fact, it ...