“Nope, nope, nope,” was Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s answer to the question whether his country will take in any of the nearly 8,000 Rohingya refugees stranded at sea.Abbott’s logic is as pitiless as his decision to abandon the world’s most persecuted minority i

“What is the Palestinian strategy” is a question that I have been asked all too often, including on May 15, the day millions of Palestinians around the world commemorated the 67th anniversary of the Nakbeh, the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by Zionist militias

In a Western capital far away from Gaza and Cairo, I recently shared a pot of tea with an “Egyptian refugee”. The term is familiar to me, but never have I encountered an Egyptian who refers to himself as such. One of them stated it as a matter of fact, saying, &ldqu

In November 1993 I was on a mission.

A student group asked me to address socialism in the Arab world, with the assumption that there is indeed such a movement that would be capable of overhauling the many incompetent and corrupt regimes across the region.

Are you surprised that there has been little mobilisation to help Yarmouk, the Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, which is overrun by militants, and besieged by the Syrian army? Palestinians — and Syrians — there are killed in many ways, including

The population of Syria’s Palestinian Yarmouk Refugee Camp, which once exceeded 250,000 and dwindled throughout the Syrian civil war to 18,000, is a microcosm of the story of an entire nation whose perpetual pain shames us all. Refugees who escaped the Syrian war or are di

To suggest that the United States policies in Yemen was a “failure” is an understatement. It implies that the US had at least attempted to succeed.

Waiting on Israeli society to change from within is a colossal waste of time, a time during which the suffering of an entire nation torn between an occupied home and a harsh diaspora will continue.  But what are Palestinians and the supporters of a just peace in Palestine a