The other war: living with corpses and stray dogs in the city of Mosul
Mizar Kemal 2021-05-18
The war was over in Mosul, but other battles were still unfolding. The returnees to the old Iraqi city are...
Understanding the overflow of Fatwas in Morocco
Mohamed Benaziz 2015-05-08
Ahmad Raissouni, noted Moroccan Islamic scholar and preacher, issued a fatwa (religious edict) banning fighting the Islamic State. Raissouni is...
The curious case of the Egyptian Minister of Interior
Ismail Alexandrani 2015-03-29
You cannot slaughter an entire people all at once, but you can divide the mission into successive stages. And...
Egyptian Universities and the Creation of a New Political Reality
Mona Sleem 2015-03-29
Guarded with barred walls and heavily-armed forces, and filled with the names of detainees, the Historic dome of the...
Baghdad, Where I Wheel Hope Into the Morgue
Omar Al-Jaffal 2014-02-05
In their haunted capitol, Iraqis largely confront their demons on their own now; the American army is gone, and with...
Hostage Crisis Reveals Weakness of Algerian State
Lakhdar Ben Shiba 2013-01-23
After the hostage crisis ended at the In Amenas gas station in the oil fields of Tigantourine — which resulted...
The Violence of the Impoverished: 1948 Palestinians Under Occupation
Majd Kayyal 2012-09-26
It was an apparently ordinary afternoon in Nazareth, the largest Palestinian town in the 1948 territories that has remained Arab,...