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Ali El Shamy

“My Poetry Depicts You” Offers a Lens on Modern Kurdish Poetry 

A Kurdish man, standing beneath the Kurdish flag, raises his hand as several thousand sing the Kurdish national anthem while they…

11 September 2020

India and China Skirmishes Expose Old Colonial Wounds

Since the mid-twentieth century, India and China have had a complex relationship. China and India have engaged in three major military conflicts,…

04 September 2020

Johnson’s Constant U-turns Leave Voters Frustrated 

Last year’s December election gave the Conservatives an 80-seat majority, which has effectively gave them the ability to pass legislation with little…

21 August 2020

Maya Diab: The Lebanese Star Who Joined Humanitarian Volunteers After the Beirut Blast

Early Life and Education   Maya Diab was born on November 12, 1980 in Achrafieh, one of the…

14 August 2020

Hezbollah Draws International Criticism After Beirut Explosion

The political landscape of post-civil war Lebanon has been precarious. The events of 1990 resulted in 15 years of Syrian occupation, which would only…

07 August 2020

Europe’s Split Response over Turkish Intervention in Libya

Turkey’s intervention in Libya has been garnering media attention for the past two weeks. The two main warring factions in Libya, the Government of…

24 July 2020

Kanye West: The Outlandish Rapper With the 10-Day Presidential Run

Early Love for Music   Kanye Omari West was born on June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Unlike many rappers of his generation,…

22 July 2020

Oussama Rahbani: The Composer, the Poet and the Political Philosopher

A Family of Composers   Oussama Rahbani was born on December 9, 1965 in Lebanon to Terez Abou Jouda and Mansour Rahbani. His father,…

14 July 2020

Sir Ringo Starr: Former Beatle Celebrates his 80th Birthday with Peace and Love

A Childhood of Unfortunate Events   Sir Richard Starkey, better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, was born on July 7, 1940 to…

10 July 2020

Beijing’s Takeover of Hong Kong Sovereignty

Hong Kong’s semiautonomous status is due to run out in 2047, 50 years after the UK transferred its powers over the city-state to Beijing. Because…

10 July 2020
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Barbara Gibson
Politics

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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