In January 2020, Venezuela, Sudan, Mauritania and Libya will join the UN Human Rights Council, after an election that has set alarm bells off around the world, as these are countries known for...
With the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) assault on Libya’s capital Tripoli continuing after a month, with little serious condemnation from regional or international powers, it seems the conflicts...
Looking for some good reads to start off the week? Here's what's been intriguing us lately... 'Interview with Libya's Prime Minister: 'We Will Not Become Like Somalia'' (Spiegel) What's happening in...
It hasn't been uncommon for quite some time now to see destitute and dirty Syrian children sleeping rough on the streets of Istanbul these days. Like millions of their counterparts they have been...
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...
While there seems to be no shortage of cursory stories from the front lines of recent Middle Eastern conflicts, filmmakers Rachel Beth Anderson and Tim Grucza have decided to dig deeper. During the...
There was much celebrating yesterday as rebel forces, aided by increased NATO surveillance, moved into Tripoli. Though fighting continues in pockets throughout Tripoli—most notably over Gaddafi’s...
Philosophers and scientists have long proposed theories in which duality is the propelling force of movement and progress - the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectic offered a process...
“What has Muammar Gaddafi been up to for the past two decades? And who are these ‘African mercenaries’ who are killing civilians?” asked confused Western spectators as they watched the Libyan...
Once Mubarak’s regime fell, and the celebrations in Tahrir Square subsided as Egyptians began to use Twitter to organize city cleanings rather than overthrow their dictator, the inevitable question...