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,...
I’ve been having trouble sleeping this past week. Every night. I go to bed and there is an underlying feeling of guilt that keeps creeping up on me. It chokes me. Makes me lay there at night for...
“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...
“I want to see another President before I die”. The free-hand graffiti on the wall of a well-revered bar in downtown Cairo reads quite frankly. From day one of the Egyptian Revolution, the...
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...
Last week, journalist Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by a group of protesters in Egypt. Details of the assault emerged over time: She was forcibly isolated from her crew. She was beaten; some of...
Even here in my corner of the world—a little spot in the Southeastern region of the United States—everyone seems a little different today. A little bit kinder, maybe. A little bit more patient,...
“People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people” – V for Vendetta It has only been two weeks since the Arab world, quite literally in some...
These are cynical political times for social movements. Revolutionary action is something rarely discussed in serious conversation. Sometimes we boast hyperbolically about our “revolutionary...
On Monday January 23rd, Al-Jazeera leaked over 1,600 confidential documents from behind the closed doors of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. These documents consist of everything from meeting...
