Macron’s Africa Visit Highlights Growing Anti-Western Sentiment
Tensions are rising between Africa and the West. Macron’s trip to Africa was marred by protests and growing resentment.
Culture
A Shared Struggle: How A Book Brought Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers Together
Several hunger strikes have been carried out by Palestinian and Irish prisoners to protest administrative detention, along with cruel and…
Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Natalia Grincheva’s Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age presents online museums as places of modern cultural diplomacy and explores how…
Meet Your New Reality: Death to 2020 Is a Clever Political Satire
Death to 2020 is a cleverly written, well-executed, and well-produced TV show that reminds us of old-school satirical TV shows…
Notturno: A Dark Purgatorial World in the Fertile Crescent
The film opens with a series of marching soldiers passing under a majestic sky and this theme of unobtrusively allowing…
Indigenous Sovereignty & Canadian Settler Colonialism
So long as Canada does not recognize Indigenous sovereignty, the violence will continue, and so will Indigenous resistance and resurgence.
The Great Turan: Russia’s Concerns about Turkey’s Growing Reputation in Caucasus and Central Asia
Russian experts admit that the Great Turan project is gaining popularity in the Turkic-speaking world, profoundly amplified by Turkey’s military successes and…
The Politics of Sighting the Crescent Moon in the Muslim World
For the first time in history, Muslims have found themselves in a node of modernization, transnational sectarian networks, and state…
South Korea in the Middle East: More Than Usual Business
According to Spotify, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria were the top five streamers of K-pop between 2014…
Orthodoxy and Russian Foreign Policy: A Story of Rise and Fall
Once an effective ideology of geopolitical expansion, Orthodoxy today has been degraded to the level of trading in indulgences and…
Pushing the Liberalist Agenda to its Limits: The Problem of Labels
Ethnocide is just another form of genocide; it targets the culture of a specific group of people.
Hindutva Ideology: India’s Gradual Move Towards Genocide
This is India today, an increasingly autocratic and nationalistic state that’s now exerting its illiberal political ideology well beyond its…
The Turcos of Latin America: The Story of 20th-Century Ottoman Migrants
Latin America hosts nearly 30 million of Arabs of Ottoman heritage, who arrived in with Ottoman passports long time ago.
“The US Needs a Reckoning, Not a Reconciliation”: An Interview with Sundiata Cha-Jua
Today, there are conflicting societal undercurrents in the US such as the increasing activism of black movements and the growing…
Seeing Ramallah from above: In Memory of Mourid Barghouti, Legendary Palestinian Poet and Novelist
Barghouti was among the few Palestinians who understood the wrath of having a state under occupation, who was a critical…
Hatem Ali’s Contribution to a Collective Memory Spirited by Drama, History, and Politics
Since 2012, Ali lived in self-exile which seems to have been a political message of refusing to accept the Syrian…
Public Art in the Service of the State: Political Iconography in Iran
The emergence of the deep state in Iran in the 2010s led to a massive change in Iran’s political murals…
How the Politics of Antiracism Impact Art, Culture, and Literature
Policy is not always a matter of government or legislation, but anti-racist policy will come from cultural change, from protest,…
Slavery and Colonialism Go Deeper than Toppling Statues
The danger is to mistake tokenistic gestures of racial and ethnic equality by the symbolic overthrow of bronze statues of…
