Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to ...

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result that was analysed carefully in neighbouring Azerbaijan. The ruling ...

The global discussions around the controversial movie Citizen Vigilante are both boring and alarming. Because if people don’t ...

I am asked how I can stand up for Jews in general and Israel in particular, now that a United Nations commission of inquiry ...

The November Men' (1993) purports to be about a director making a docudrama about a plot to kill the president. The ...

For decades, the phrase “from the Nile to the Euphrates” has occupied a peculiar place in Middle Eastern political imagination, drifting between symbolism, fear and accusation depending on who is ...

“What do you think my upcoming book, “Zin in Chaos” [A Taste for Chaos], needs to achieve even greater success in its crowdfunding campaign?” The answer was: “A text that makes it even clearer that ...

The international refugee system is failing, and the people who need it most are the first to feel it. It was designed for a world that no longer exists, and never redesigned for the one that took its ...

“Send them back, send them back,” followed by hearty applause from right-wing Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) last week. The MEPs celebrated a vote, 418 to 218, aimed at increasing ...

It is the summer of 1940. Air raid sirens wail over London as the Luftwaffe drops bombs onto the burning streets. Amidst the tremors, the British people hear a voice on the radio: crackling, resolute, ...

There comes a point in life when you realise that what broke you was not a single moment, but a pattern—of giving too much, holding on too long, and mistaking endurance for strength. Healing begins ...

To embrace the arts is to open one’s mind to the possibility that the impossible is within reach. At Beirut's historic Le Monnot theatre, you quickly feel less in a physical space and more in an ...