While the media is ripe with discussion on the habits, behavior, and ideologies of American millennials, not much has been said about the lives of the young Arabs who spear-headed the 2010 Arab...
Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan's contentious social media celebrity, model, and feminist activist, was brutally strangled to death by her brother Waseem Azeem, who confessed that he choked her in...
The failure of last Friday's attempted putsch in Turkey, which was foiled within a few hours, and the rapid crackdown on dissenting elements in Turkey's legal and military system, has led to some...
The catastrophic Syrian civil war and the clashes between Islamist and secular militants that have gone on since 2011 have razed what used to be a middle-income country of 20 million people to the...
Over the weekend, suicide bombers in Ankara killed 34 people and injured over 100 others in a devastating terror attack. For Turkey, still reeling from the deaths of over 100 people in a similar...
“I have always liked men of strong contrasts”, a friend told me once under the frescoed ceiling of a Renaissance villa outside Rome. The place was hosting a contemporary art fair and we were...
Turkish forces have been fighting the Kurds, a significant ethnic and cultural group in the country as well as in the surrounding region, for decades dating back to 1978. This region is often...
On this International Women’s Day, let’s stress the importance of complicated conversations, of stories of women that exist beyond pre-set narratives of what liberation means. According to white...
Talking about the hijab in the post-Paris-attacks-Europe strikes a lot of chords. Anything iconically related to the coordinated terrorist atrocities of 10 gunmen and the death of 129 people who were...
Today’s Global Comment advent calendar selection is especially notable for its video. Filmed in the West Bank and the Sinai desert, it manages to lay claim to at least some authenticity of...
