Tensions between the United States and Iraq this month arose fears that pressure on the Islamic State (ISIS) would be significantly eased, enabling it to re-organize and carry out new terror attacks...
This week, we're delving into some fascinating longreads on subjects as wide ranging as hiking while Black, guarding Saddam Hussein, and resisting Trump's border wall. Read on for more! If you...
We start the week on a somber note with multiple terrible attacks across the world — a reminder of the grim, broad reach of terrorism in a global community. Yet, what these attacks should show us...
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...
The opening of 2015 saw Paris afflicted by the horrendous terrorist attacks on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish kosher supermarket. The closing of 2015 has sadly seen another...
Homeland, now in its fifth season on Showtime, attracted global headlines this weekend for an entirely unintentional reason — it wasn’t plot twists and characterisation the public wanted to talk...
As Russia’s airstrikes begin to take hold, and Russian/Syrian coordinated ground attacks against the non-ISIS rebels continue, the battle lines in the post Sykes-Picot Middle East are starting to...
You know the Middle East is horrendously chaotic when a war which has cost over 2000 lives and, according to the United Nations, left over 6.5 million people at risk of starvation and most of a...
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,...