EU Court Refuses to Address Discrimination against Muslims
The Court clarified that EU law does not impose uniform standards: member states can maintain rules that are more favorable to the right to wear religious clothing.
Opinion
With Biden’s Win, Saudi Arabia Is Now More Desperate to Appease Israel
Arab rulers don’t understand the reality that they are shooting themselves in the foot by pursuing Israel’s support to secure…
Mercenaries in Karabakh: Who They Are and How They Got There
Many reports indicate that Armenia relied on the help of mercenary groups from various countries including the PKK terrorist organization…
Muslim American Votes Were More Anti-Trump than Pro-Biden
The future of Muslims in America is dependent on whether they are willing to set aside the convention and be…
Homeless Migrants Are Harassed, Chased, and Cleared Out by the French Police
A French activist screamed to police officers that violently cleared out a temporary camp in central Paris, “They are human…
Trump Lost But Trumpism Thrives
While Democrats might take comfort and be tempted to view the horrid Trump administration as an aberration, Trumpism is far…
Why Irish and Palestinian Hunger Strikers Choose Self-Sacrifice
Naked power rather than elemental morality is allowed to dominate the discourse. In the background is the bankruptcy of liberal…
The Vaccine Nationalism Craze Is on the Rise Globally
Vaccine nationalism is a threat to global health – it is, for all intents and purposes, an Orwellian global nightmare…
Making Sense of Hunger Strikes and Symbolic Politics
An unacknowledged, yet vital, truth of recent history is that symbolic politics have often eventually controlled the outcomes of prolonged…
Is Russian Cultural Hegemony in Central Asia Finally Over?
Days of the undisputed Russian cultural hegemony in Central Asia are over and now it is time to focus on…
A Turkish-Italian Alliance on Libya?
Italy should look into a compromise with Turkey, which deployed enormous resources in Libya. However, this compromise may need brave…
Revisiting the East Mediterranean Energy Game: What Will Change in the Coronavirus Days?
Geopolitical rivalry, not economic rationality, has become the main determinant of the limits of Eastern Mediterranean energy cooperation.
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,…
Systemic Racism in the U.S. killed George Floyd, not Trump
Floyd is dead because American history is full of racial inequalities against African Americans from the very first day of…
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…
The Drone Warfare Revolution Has Arrived
The genie is out of the bottle as the technology to manufacture UCAVs spreads globally, signaling the dawn of drone…
Coronavirus and the Shift Towards a New Cinema
Paradoxically the global lockdown could potentially create a new, more organic interest, and resurgence in the communal experience that promotional…
COVID-19 and Religion: Between Nationalism and Communal Responsibility
Will COVID-19 lead to increased nationalist exclusionary and defensive attitudes among the religious, or might it be the cure that…
The Fight Against Social Inequality Is Fundamental to Defeat COVID-19
To overcome the global pandemic, it is vital to understand the sources of socioeconomic inequalities that kill more people than…
