FFeatures Read More4 minute read The Olympic Venues of Athens: A History of Refuge and DecaybyNews Week MeApril 24, 2016 Twelve years ago, Greece was triumphant; she was celebrating the return of the Olympic Games to Athens, the…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Marrakesh: Rites of PassagebyNews Week MeApril 20, 2016 In the 13th century, when the Mongols conquered Baghdad, their ruler Hulagu Khan gathered the religious scholars in…
FFeatures Read More16 minute read Iraq ‘n’ Roll: How Ramadi Was WonbyNews Week MeApril 7, 2016 Almost a month after Iraqi special forces reclaimed Ramadi from Daesh, Iraqi troops are still patrolling the streets…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Low Oil Prices: A New Opportunity for Gulf CooperationbyNews Week MeApril 4, 2016 When the founders of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), convened in Baghdad in 1960, they…
FFeatures Read More10 minute read Along Syria’s FrontlinesbyNews Week MeMarch 30, 2016 When Daesh militants took over the ancient city of Palmyra last May, they were able to establish a…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read Yemen: Sweet SpotbyNews Week MeMarch 2, 2016 The scent of the food that wafts from Mat’am Souriya (Syria’s Restaurant) attracts passersby in Hada Street in…
FFeatures Read More7 minute read Pakistan: The Shame Of It AllbyNews Week MeFebruary 24, 2016 The medieval practice of honor killing is defined as “the murder of a family member, usually a female,…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read Saudi’s Social ContractbyNews Week MeFebruary 15, 2016 2015 was a seminal year in the history of Saudi Arabia. Not only did it mark the passing…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Palestine: The Road AheadbyNews Week MeFebruary 10, 2016 On January 25, 2006, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip cast their votes for a new…
FFeatures Read More8 minute read Into the Valley of DeathbyNews Week MeFebruary 10, 2016 AFTER weeks of hand-wringing and heated debate, the United Kingdom has now joined the coalition in extended military…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Forever FrenemiesbyNews Week MeFebruary 4, 2016 In the imperilled world of India-Pakistan relations, things can change drastically very quickly, while ultimately staying the same.…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Travesty of JusticebyNews Week MeJanuary 20, 2016 On January 6, 2016, Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami became the fifth opposition…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read The Pursuit of JusticebyNews Week MeDecember 9, 2015 Israel’s ongoing military occupation of the West Bank and enforced siege on Gaza Strip, with its illegal policies…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read Israel-Palestine: The Unattainable PeacebyNews Week MeNovember 28, 2015 October 2015 was one of the bloodiest months in Palestine/Israel since the Second Intifada, with 69 Palestinian fatalities…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read The Ground Beneath Their FeetbyNews Week MeNovember 25, 2015 On Nov. 12, as Kurdish and Yazidi forces backed by the U.S.-led military coalition and Iraqi air force…
FFeatures Read More3 minute read Pressing Matters: Media Coverage and the Arab Gulf StatesbyNews Week MeOctober 27, 2015 Over the past few years Western media’s negative coverage of the Arab Gulf states has increased so much…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Palestine: A Third Intifada?byNews Week MeOctober 27, 2015 It was just after midday on Oct. 5, 13-year-old Abd Al-Rahman Shadi Obeidallah was standing with friends in…