John Bolton is a tarnished character.

Throughout her hunger strike of exactly 47 days, Hana Shalabi never slept consistently for a number of hours.In the first few days of her strike, she would doze off only to wake up with the sudden fear that someone was trying to hurt her.But after the first week of hunger strike,

When Egypt decided to open the Rafah border crossing that separates it from Gaza for two days, December 3 and 4, a sense of guarded relief was felt in the impoverished strip.True, 48 hours were hardly enough for the tens of thousands of patients, students and other trav

Israeli commentators Yaron Friedman, of Ynet News, and Haviv Rettig Gur, of The Times of Israel, are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilisation and collective struggle.In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight wha

I still remember that smug look on his face, followed by the matter-of-fact remarks that had Western journalists laugh out loud.“I’m now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq,” General Norman Schwarzkopf, known as “Stormin” Norman, said at a press conferenc

Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy.“The official results are still being tabulated,” he wrote, “but all

US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good ones” — a less hawkish top American official who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism, but reaches out to others, beyond polarising rhetoric.His unremitting efforts culminated

You may have heard of the famed British author, J.K.

Saeb Erekat is an enigmatic character. Despite minimal popularity among Palestinians, he is omnipresent, appears regularly on television and speaks with the moral authority of an accomplished leader whose legacy is rife with accolades and an astute, unwavering vision.