The sharp regional and international alignments that have currently gripped the Middle East in general, and Syria in particular, have put the Syrian Kurds at a crossroads. العربية
From the Counter-Terrorism Division in Ankara, Turkey... The story’s named by others, but filled by women who resist the war. We live in a story whose title reads ‘unidentified’.
In the 4-month period from 1 July to 30 October 2017, Israel violated Lebanon’s airspace 758 times for a total of 3,188 hours.
Fearful of a relentless downward slide, Cairo’s middle classes generate income by renting out their private apartments for the illegal filming of TV soaps.
متى نصل إلى الديمقراطية؟ ما السبيل إلى ذلك؟ هذه الأسئلة وغيرها أصبحت تُطرح بشكل روتيني ودائم.
On the frontline of the LGBTQIA movement in Tunisia, a trans non-binary drag queen is revolutionizing and leading the fight for equal rights.
Syrian ‘guests’ in Turkey have been used not only as political tools for foreign ambitions, but also for reinforcing the conservative and Islamist ideology promoted by Erdogan’s AKP.
الاصطفافات الإقليميّة والدوليّة الحادّة التي تعصف بمنطقة الشرق الأوسط عامّة، وسوريا بشكلٍ خاصّ، وَضَعَت الكُرد السوريين على مفترق طُرُق، في موقفٍ يُعيدُ إلى الأذهان اتفاقيّة سايكس بيكو، ومعاهدتي سيفر، ولوزان. English
The domestic critics of the Iran deal and its Republican misanthropists in the United States are making a similar mistake.
المجتمع المدني القوي والنقابات القوية تعني دولة قوية، ولذلك، تدعيم استقلالية المجتمع المدني وقوته، ومن ضمنه النقابات، هو تقوية ودعم للدولة، عكس ما تروجّه السلطة وأجهزتها.
Kurds, it seems, have the misfortune of being victims of a “non-western” power and so their suffering barely registers. Kurdish