The Northern Irish Troubles, relative to their scale, are the most studied conflict in modern history. They took place in a province the size ofConnecticutwith a population of around 1.6 million…
Early Life
Jürgen Klopp was born on June 16, 1967, in Stuttgart, West Germany. His father, Norbert, was a traveling salesman and showed the potential of becoming a…
The Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution inMyanmarfor decades. And yet no violence in their recent history has compared to that which theMyanmarmilitary inflicted inAugust 2017. After militants…
Saudi Arabia has been changing -rapidly - and art and culture are playing a pivotal role in this significant social shift. Last year Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched the creation of the…
When I claimed recently that Jonathan Jones, the prolific art critic for The Guardian, used the same method as Boris Johnson when writing his articles, I was, of course,…
1 - Omani-born Jokha Al-Harthi received her PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry at the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and currently teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman’s…
ASavage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security.Rachel Kleinfeld. Pantheon, 2018. 496pp.
These are dangerous times: war inSyriaandYemen, bloody repression…
Over 68.5 million people have been forcefully displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations.Close to 40 percent originate from the Arab…
A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 shows, identity, belonging, and tension combine to make football fandom unlike any other sport. So, what is going on in fans' brains?
Beijing's duty-free access for African exports promises mutual economic gains, but more importantly, it deepens its strategic influence across the continent