When the Islamic State (ISIS) group symbolically dismantled the Skyes-Picot border which had long separated the modern states of Iraq and Syria in the middle of 2014, following its takeover of large...
Since the two-and-a-half-year-old truce between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group broke down in recent weeks one often sees and hears the term “Kurdish separatists” or...
Exotic. A word that contains worlds. You browse through a dictionary, and you find the word exotic defined as “strange or unusual”. In its archaic sense, it was used as synonym of foreign or...
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 the early 1970's Ariel Sharon won on a political platform advocating a comprehensive settlement to the Palestinian issue. He reasoned that as a hawk he was the one to deliver peace since he could...
“Human beings the world over exhibit morbid fascination with violence, with cruelty. Could this kind of voyeurism be necessary for remembrance? People seem to want to know that it actually happened...
The recent general election in Turkey proved to be a major setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to use his party's parliamentary majority to, via constitutional referendum, establish a...
Four-years of unrelenting war has really taken its toll on Syria. To say that the worst of both worlds has emerged from this horrible mess would be an understatement. On the one hand we have the now...
Two news headlines relating to recent events in two Palestinian enclaves reminded one of the new realities gradually taking place in those enclaves. Let us start with the Gaza Strip. Since 2007 it...
The notorious Islamic State group (ISIS) became infamous on an international scale when it rampaged across Northern Iraq in early June 2014. A year ago. Since that time it has continued its bloody...
