Middle East

Mathias Énard’s Alternative Cosmopolitanism

Mathias Énard’s Alternative Cosmopolitanism Mathias Énard’s Alternative Cosmopolitanism

Ranging across the Mediterranean, his novels map out the intermediate space between East and West.

Aug 24, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy

Trump Mural Bethlehem

Disdain for Liberals Drives the Jewish Pro-Trump Right Disdain for Liberals Drives the Jewish Pro-Trump Right

It’s not the issues that matter; it’s the shared hatred.

Aug 24, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman

Afghan dust

Take Away Trump’s Blank Check for Endless War Take Away Trump’s Blank Check for Endless War

You can also write a letter to the editor to demand the removal of Confederate statues, and join a campaign to take economic power from Wall Street and give it back to communities.

Aug 22, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction

Ain Issa refugee camp

The Middle East’s Wars Are Creating a Lost Generation The Middle East’s Wars Are Creating a Lost Generation

The children who live through these conflicts could be scarred for decades.

Aug 22, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Palestinian Family in Mourning

Cutting Off Payments to Palestinian Families Won’t Stop Terrorism Cutting Off Payments to Palestinian Families Won’t Stop Terrorism

It also might amount to collective punishment, which is illegal. 

Aug 17, 2017 / Lara Friedman

Neo-Nazis Charlottesville

Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East? Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East?

 Our neo-imperial wars may be coming home to roost.

Aug 16, 2017 / Juan Cole

Sedrine Tunisia

‘Why So Much Cruelty?’ ‘Why So Much Cruelty?’

Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission is unique in the Arab world. But is the country too small a place to tell the truth about human-rights abuses?

Aug 11, 2017 / Ursula Lindsey

Turkish Journalists Trial

Turkey’s Great Terror Turkey’s Great Terror

Recep Erdogan has turned his country into a gulag state, branding millions of citizens as terrorists.

Aug 11, 2017 / Juan Cole

Pence in Georgia

Why Trump Is Beating the War Drum—and How It Could Lead to Disaster Why Trump Is Beating the War Drum—and How It Could Lead to Disaster

It’s sure to win favor among hawks of both parties, while distracting the media and public from his domestic woes—but foreign powers are not backing down.

Aug 10, 2017 / Michael T. Klare

Right to BDS

Nearly 50 Senators Want to Make It a Felony to Boycott Israel Nearly 50 Senators Want to Make It a Felony to Boycott Israel

The goal is to frighten people from engaging in the completely legal act of living out their values.

Aug 4, 2017 / Aniqa Raihan

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