Trump’s Israel-Palestine Peace Plan – Its Test Run
On 15 June 2018 senior US administration officials met with UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in New York to discuss US efforts “to promote peace in the Middle East and to…
Who Follows Mahmoud Abbas?
Reaching the age of 83 is no big deal these days. Centenarians abound. But Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is 83 with a long history of health problems. Some…
Egyptian Government to Discuss Draft Law Banning Child Marriages
The Egyptian Government is proposing a new draft law to ban child marriage, amending the previous 1992 law in order to have a larger impact on decreasing child marriage. The new…
PUK – Gorran Relations in Post Kurdish Referendum: A New Phase of Conflict in Green Zone
The Kurdish referendum in September 2017 not only lost plenty of gains earned since 2003, but it also brought about a deep political dichotomy between and inside the prominent political…
The Term ‘Arab World’. What Does It Mean Anyway?
Labelling 381 million people from 22 countries as monolithic ‘Arabs’ is misleading and inaccurate.
Trump’s Abrogation of Iran Deal May Put his America First Policy to the Test
President Donald J. Trump’s abrogation of the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran is likely to put his America First policy to the test.
Gaza: A Response in Kind to the Humanitarian Crisis?
For the sake of the Palestinians and Israelis alike, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has to be seriously addressed by the international community. The massacure of unarmed Palestinians at the…
UN Human Rights: As Wrong as Ever
Comparatively speaking, the UN Human Rights Council is still in its infancy. Set up only twelve years ago by the UN General Assembly, it had one over-riding purpose – to…
The Right to Have Rights
It was sunny in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday morning. A guest of the city’s opulent annual writers’ festival, I was about to tape a talk show at the headquarters of…
Syria’s Future
On April 4, 2018 three national presidents met in the Turkish capital of Ankara. Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeted his Russian and Iranian counterparts − Vladimir Putin and Hassan…