New President, Old Pattern of Sexual Violence in Egypt
On June 3, the day that the Elections Commission announced the victory of ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt’s presidential race, television announcer Radwa Ruhayyim covered the festivities in Tahrir Square. Surrounded by ululating revelers, she noted that, amidst the celebrations, several women had beA New Normal for Iraqi Kurds?
At first glance, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) seems to have come out ahead from the takeover of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Taking advantage of the power vacuum left by the flight of the Iraqi security forces from Mosul and its envirEgypt's Government by Baltaga
Most reactions to the farcical convictions [http://www.madamasr.com/content/3-jazeera-journalists-given-7-10-year-sentences] of Australian journalist Peter Greste [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2014/s4032290.htm], Egyptian-Canadian Mohamad Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamad express shockWhat About 'Abd al-Rahman al-Awlaqi?
The US government wanted to kill Anwar al-Awlaqi long before [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-a-us-citizen-in-americas-cross-hairs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0] a CIA-JSOC drone strike actually succeeded in doing so on September 30, 2011. Before and after that deadly sUnder-the-Radar Palestinian Connections
With intensity unknown since the second intifada [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer217] and at a daily cost of $12 million to the Hebron economy alone, Israel is cracking down on the West Bank in its search for three missing Israeli settler youth. The result is a growing Palestinian chorus: Stop Israeli-Justice for Rasmea Odeh
This past winter, I was privileged to participate in several events in Chicago organized by Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action Network [http://www.aaan.org/] and leader of that group’s Arab Women’s Committee [http://www.aaan.org/?cat=27]. The events brought together aPostcard from Guantánamo
On June 14, 123 people -- including a military judge, teams of civilian and military defense lawyers and prosecutors, eight courtroom observers, and 15 journalists -- flew on a C-17 from Andrews Air Force Base to Guantánamo Bay for military commission proceedings. It is my fifth trip to Guantánamo,Hybrid Loyalties at the World Cup
The World Cup raises nationalist (make that nativist) sentiment to a fever pitch all around the Mediterranean Sea basin. But nowhere does the temperature run higher than in France and Algeria (as Martin Evans discusses at length in this article [http://www.historytoday.com/martin-evans/patriot-gamesCatastrophe and Consequence
What is happening in Iraq is a catastrophe, but not a sudden one. The violence in Iraq has been worsening steadily over the last few years. And more to the point, today’s crisis is the consequence of failed policies and failed politics -- national, regional and international -- years and even decade
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