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A narrow ribbon of water, barely 33 kilometres wide at its tightest point, has once again exposed the fragility of global order. The Strait of Hormuz,...
Could sharing publicly available footage of a military incident land you in prison in Kuwait? Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s early March 2026...
Apple and Google Maps have become the primary cartographic imagination of the world. Two billion people navigate through them, trust them, defer to...
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the...
The geography of the Strait of Hormuz is a cruel mistress to the logic of conventional military might, a reality that the world is rediscovering with...
What the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is attempting—at least on the level of political discourse—is nothing less than reclaiming the definition...
Open conflict with the President of the United States was not something Pope Leo XIV expected when his Apostolic Journey took him to the largest...
As tensions linked to the U.S.–Iran war continue to destabilize the Middle East, Indonesia and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are expanding...
The US–Israel war on Iran has shaken the whole world. The surprising air attacks on February 28, amid ongoing diplomatic negotiations, came as a...
In a development that has sparked significant backlash, Israel’s participation in the 2026 International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) in Chile has...
A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the...
Silence, in international politics, is rarely neutral. In Sudan, it has become lethal. Three years into a civil war that has displaced more people...
A photograph is often described as a neutral record of reality. Yet, within the context of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, a...
The Strait of Hormuz is a single waterway that at its narrowest point is barely 33 kilometers, but its significance is understated as it can disrupt...
Iran’s response to the American closure of the Strait of Hormuz, among other actions, was not arbitrary. Rather, it was a calculated reaction...
Exactly 72 days have passed since the assassination of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi. On 3 February 2026, in Zintan, a four-man hit squad eliminated the last...
For more than forty years, the security setup in the Persian Gulf has basically rested on one straightforward bargain: the Arab oil-producing states...
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is being interpreted through sharply contested narratives. Tehran has described it as an...
Europe’s stance on Palestine, although currently slightly shifting, remains “below the level required,” Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen...
In today’s international system, certain geographical points have evolved beyond their natural location into critical nodes of the global economy....
In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically...
This week, Libya witnessed two events that were celebrated as signs of progress, even though they express nothing more than the normalisation of...
The language of hegemonic media does not merely describe the world. It organizes it, hierarchises it and, above all, disciplines it. Within the...
Spain was recently targeted by Israel’s antisemitism narrative after an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was blown up in El Burgo, during...
On 2nd March, when the Lebanese government declared a total ban on Hezbollah’s military and security activities, most of the commentary focused on...
There are few habits in client-state politics more revealing than the urge to decorate empire’s latest strongman with the language of peace. Some...
“It is disappointing that they do not reflect on the criticisms of people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to ceaseless actions...
Old-school fascism controlled the press with a fist; the new version controls the data with a contract. When the state and the corporation agree on...
As a Political Science student who studies peace-building in the Middle East, I want to start with something a scholar named Edward Said taught us:...
In Washington, the phrase “restoring deterrence” functions as a foreign policy reflex. The logic appears straightforward: strike Iran’s assets,...
The most revealing thing about the 8 April ceasefire was not that it paused, for the moment, threatened attacks on Iran’s bridges, power stations...
In a surprising development, US President Donald Trump announced in the early hours of Wednesday morning a two-week ceasefire with Iran, contingent...
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a settlement in Benjamin, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel will expand in Gaza, the...
Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages affirms that the on-the-ground realities in the area extending between...
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