Throughout the 2010s, the Syrian Arab Republic was ripped apart by a vicious civil conflict that killed at least half-a-million people, displaced and made refugees of millions more and led to the...
Arab and Middle Eastern dictatorships are infamous for their cruelty, repression and violence. But these aren't the only things responsible for the longevity of tyrants like the Assad's of Syria,...
In September 2013 I wrote a rather odd editorial which posited that the Hamas group in Gaza may actually prove to be a force for stability for Israel. Immediately after publication I suspected there...
Egypt's President Sisi is an autocrat who appears to perceive himself as a forward-thinking revolutionary leader of the Egyptian nation. In light of the Islamist attacks in Paris earlier this month...
On the night of July 3, exactly 48 hours after General Abdul Fatah Sisi of the Special Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) gave President Morsi an ultimatum—either he listen to the demands of the...
Judging from Twitter, Egypt is in complete chaos. Online, protesters in the square tweeted pictures of a Tahrir Square that resembled the first, triumphant images of the Arab Spring and shared...
On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan climbed onto a bus in Ankara, Turkey in front of a crowd of raging protesters and warned that his patience with the protests—that are now in...
Slavoj Zizek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Verso, 2012. The work of Slavoj Zizek is by now a genre of critical theory in itself, complete with its own distinctive characteristics. These include:...
In 2010, I co-wrote an article in which we questioned whether we were on the verge of an Arab renaissance. We never imagined how time will prove us so right.... and so fast! In fact, at the time,...
At the start of the 2011-2012 television season, the networks were catering to a demand for fairytales. Four months later, they’re rolling out two shows with a strong horror lean, bent on creeping...