When Arab streets exploded with fury, from Tunis to Sanaa, pan-Arabism seemed like a nominal notion. The so-called Jasmine Revolution did not use slogans that affirmed its Arab identity, nor did angry Egyptian youths raise the banner proclaiming Arab unity atop the high buil

As US liberals and some leftists are pulling up their sleeves in anticipation of a prolonged battle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, the tussle becomes particularly ugly when the candidates’ foreign policy agendas are evoked. Of the two main contenders, Hila

The Israeli “right’, a scary coalition of right-wing nationalists, ultranationalists and religious zealots, deserves all the bad press it has garnered since its formation last May.But none of this should come as a shock, as the right in Israel has never been anything but a coalit

It is not true that only three wars have taken place since Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006 in the occupied Palestinian territories; other wars that were deemed insignificant or “skirmishes” also took place.Operation Returning Echo in March 2012, for example, killed and

By January 29, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al Qiq had spent 66 days on hunger strike in Israeli jails.A day before he fell into his third coma, he sent a public message through his lawyers, the gist of which was: freedom or death.Qiq is 33 years of age, married and father of

Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds.

When Daesh militias swept into Mosul, Iraq, in June 2014, Ibrahim Mahmoud plotted his flight, along with his whole family, which included 11 children. Once upon a time, Mahmoud was himself a child escaping another violent campaign carried out by equally angry militias.In his

Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fateh movement or, perhaps, he is just not interested.Although he has dedicated most of his life fighting within its ranks, he never saw his membership in Fateh as his defining identity.

Although intended to inspire his Fateh Party followers, Mahmoud Abbas’ televised speech on the 51st anniversary of the group’s launch highlighted, instead, the unprecedented crisis that continues to wreak havoc on the Palestinian people.Not only did Abbas sound defensive and lack