On Friday, the headlines read that Tahrir Square was burning. Soldiers and military police raided the square in an unprecedented bout of violence and brutality, firing weapons and using batons and...
I got the text message at 1:07 AM: URGENT: Hundreds of police mobilizing around Zuccotti. Eviction in process. I made the decision to go at 1:08 AM. I got off the train at Rector Street—this was...
I remember the first time I visited the United Nations. I walked through the courtyard, marveling at every flag of every nation majestically poised against the backdrop of the beautiful, glass...
“Funny, I thought that all this would happen in the middle of the night and it would be done by masked Israeli soldiers,” tweeted Joseph Dana, The Nation Magazine’s correspondent aboard the US...
Saturday night the news broke that Yemeni president and dictator Ali Abdallah Saleh had been critically injured and flown to Saudi Arabia. Many remembered Tunisian ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben...
May 15th marks the simultaneous anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, and the mass expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land. While Israelis celebrate their independence...
Watching “The Arab Spring” unfold has been a remarkable and awe-inspiring experience. Something that was once impossible to imagine suddenly became inevitable as Tunisia sparked a revolutionary...
For the sake of the flow of this article, whenever I refer to “burqa” or “full veil” I am referring to both the burqa and niqab, but not the abaya, chador, or hijab. The minute that anyone...
Have you heard the one about the Hamas militant and the IDF soldiers? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A Hamas militant fires a rocket into Israel. Israel gets defensive and retaliates,...
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...
