In 2004, the BBC released filmmaker Adam Curtis’s documentary, The Power of Nightmares. In its three episodes, he carefully and convincingly made the case for the threat of international terrorism being greatly exaggerated; I...
The town of Al-Tall, in the countryside of Damascus, the Syrian capital, is famous for its highly educated inhabitants and its active women groups, despite the traditional nature of the community. In that context, we highlight ...
Where was the world when the first 100,000 Syrians were killed? Where was the efforts for intervention when the first 2 million civilians, men, women, children and elderly fled from a conflict that didn’t care for collateral ...
A new song has been making its way around Lebanese airwaves, one that’s sparked both laughter and groans. “I can’t believe there’s even a song about her now!” commented a Facebook user. The song in question? It’s ca...
Cairo has so far been spared the same fate as Damascus, but sure enough, the sounds of fireworks and jubilant crowds that greeted the coup of July 3rd have now been replaced by the grimmer sounds of sirens and gunfire across E...
Syria’s ongoing deadly civil war, Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and a renewed focus to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the three main diplomatic maneuvers currently at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy in ...
Christianity’s Holy Book, The Bible, is replete with the history, stories of the Jews, other people and places of the Middle East from early civilisation to the Romans. Among several Biblical stories are those of the birth of...
A series of unfortunate bombings and suicide attacks shook the entire region of Afghanistan in the past few weeks, killing at least 65 people and injuring numerous others in Kabul. It has been termed as the deadliest phase in K...
Following the end of the Second World War, the objectives of North American and EU foreign policy changed international politics forever. Rather than questions of the military power of the expansionist Soviet Union, objectives ...