Tag: Palestine

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is the leading institution dedicated to the humanitarian needs of the besieged people in the ...

The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States has once again placed the International Criminal Court (ICC) in extreme peril, raising the threat of U.S. ...

Choosing to write about “settler colonialism” as a theoretical notion and political concept is not an obvious choice for a poet and cultural critic, but Adam Kirsch’s new book is ...

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deteriorated further over the past month, according to an assessment by aid groups, despite demands made by the Biden administration that Israel take specific ...

The trajectory of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka—widely known as the Tamil Tigers—is often cited by proponents of Israel’s stated war aim of entirely eliminating ...

Transformations in life—and in politics—are very rare. And yet there’s a persistent and perhaps understandable temptation to turn breathless headlines into potentially transformative trend lines. There’s no better example than ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, U.S. strikes in Yemen, and a fuel tanker tragedy in Nigeria. Israel’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has launched a new initiative supporting and promoting emerging directing, writing and producing talents in the MENA region and unveiled the first participants. The ...

Not long after I finished reading The Message, New York magazine ran a cover story on the book’s author headlined “The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates.” This raised the question: Had ...

More than 40,000 people have died in the fighting in the Middle East triggered by the Hamas-organized attack on Israel one year ago on Oct. 7. That conflict has since ...