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Saudi Arabia and the Dangers of Cultural Reformation
Western absurdities and sinful projects. The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) certainly had a colorful way of describing cinemas and concerts in a bulletin it issued on June 1st....
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Why Were the Women Jailed?
On June 24th, the women of Saudi Arabia woke up and did something radical: they got behind the wheel of their family car and drove. This was radical, of course, because up until that day women in Saudi...
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#10YearChallenge: Middle East Version
The #10YearChallenge has blown up on social media, with people either gloatingly posting photos showing how they haven’t aged (or better yet, how much better they look!) or-a select few-lamenting as...
View ArticleSocial Media and Immigration Discrimination
An invitation to study at one of the world’s most prestigious universities should have been enough to secure safe passage into the United States. Yet 17 year-old Palestinian Ismail Ajjawi was barred...
View ArticleThe Protests that Disappeared
There were so many. The regime-battered defiers of Iran. The countrymen, young and old, Muslim and Christian, who filled Martyr’s Square in Lebanon. The Algerian’s who forced an ancient dictator to...
View ArticleCovid-19: The Rise of Authoritarian Measures
Lockdowns, quarantine, curfews, social distancing: practically every country around the world has issued laws in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus. From the autocracies of the East to...
View ArticleHow Face Masks Poke Holes in the Burqa Bans
Thanks to Covid-19, covering one’s face has become the fashion trend. With many countries enforcing face masks/coverings in order to prevent the spread of the virus also known as the Coronavirus, it...
View ArticleUS-Arab Relations: The Role Reversal
Charity did not end when the Coronavirus pandemic began. As countries poor and wealthy alike dug in their heals to fight the virus, they were not left alone in the crisis. One country in particular...
View ArticleChina’s Uighur Muslims Make a Case for Mental Harm & Genocide
China’s brutal treatment of the Muslim Uighur population is by now well known. More than a million ethnic Uighur people–who are Muslims–have been detained in China’s Xinjiang region. In the camps, men,...
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Non à France’s Neo-Colonial Aspirations in Beirut
The August 4th explosion in Beirut’s port created a crater in the center of the Lebanese capital that is a stark visual representation of the country’s social, political and economic turmoil. Lebanon’s...
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