In her novel "Land of the Turtle," Palestinian author Liana Badr envisions a different future for the Arab-Israeli conflict through the recollections of her fictional character in the year 2048.
While Palestinian heritage faces tight restrictions today, it grows ever more robustly, manifesting in every space that attempts to squash it – emboldened by such futile efforts.
Israeli and American dialogues currently focus on the "Day After," and the aftermath of the conflict in Gaza. This whole issue is unethical, for three primary reasons.
The nephew of Palestine's late and most renown leader has been seen as a potential successor to Mahmoud Abbas. In an interview with Al Majalla, he predicts the end of Netanyahu and a new Hamas.
The Syrian cleric was a fiery orator and popular leader who was preparing to stage a nationwide revolt against the British and Jewish emigrants in Palestine. At 53, he was killed in the first battle.
Israel's war on Gaza is the most dangerous threat to the stability of the region and the wider world. Most observers agree that it is likely to be a long-term conflict.
Unstable geopolitics traps money in defence spending and away from economic development to this day, in a pattern that goes back to 1948. Change is needed, with big challenges ahead.
After seismic events shift Palestinian politics, it is time to look at the transformed circumstances of a long struggle, as well as the factors that always defy change throughout turbulent times
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?
A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today