In November this year, the Scottish port city of Glasgow was the host of an event that once again brought the urgent question of climate change to...
In 2004, three years into the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, a number of dreadful photographs surfaced that showed members of the US military,...
“There is no such thing as race, none” – this is how master novelist Toni Morrison broke it down very simply in a famous interview. “It’s...
In a bold and defiant recent book, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto , Suketu Mehta has written a deeply erudite defence of global...
Soon after my second Covid-19 shot, I received an email from a dear friend who I had been remiss in contacting, asking how I was coping with, as she...
The idea of American democracy from its very inception, and as flagged by the ridiculous euphemism of its “exceptionalism”, is literally a...
This year’s Black Lives Matter uprising in the US and the way it resonated with people in different corners of the world drew renewed attention to...
I sat down with Obama’s book, with a cup of my reassuring tea in tow, thumbing through its pages. I looked at the glossy pictures inside, read the...
“They came, they uprooted, they burned, they killed, they plundered, and they left.”This is celebrated Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvayni’s ...
Lebanon has been witnessing unprecedented demonstrations against the government that suggest the country’s proverbial sectarianism seems suddenly...
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the United States is once again roiling in pain, struggling to come to...
Soon after Trump ordered the separation of immigrant children from their parents, conscientious observers began exposing the longer roots of such...
A resounding majority of UN member states has denounced the US’ arrogant decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem “the capital” of the...
A gloomy early afternoon in mid-November New York, a heavily overcast grey sky - it is a perfect setup to enter the cemented austerity of The Met...
Late in September, the admin of an academic list-serve sent a message to the list in which he requested a pdf copy of a recently published scholarly...
“There are no more villages left, none at all”. The accounts of the systematic ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar, now effectively...
The gross spectacle of racist terrorists in August in Charlottesville, US, and President Trump’s unabashed siding with the proto-Fascist white...
How to watch a master stylist filmmaker doing what he does best about a war long-waged, won and lost at a time of wars scarcely chronicled, let...
When you finally sit down to watch the film, you recall how Wonder Woman is none other than Diana, the warrior princess of the Amazons, born and...
For more than a decade and a half, Muslim countries from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Palestine have been the targets of the most colossal war...
What is an exhibition of Picasso and Giacometti doing in a fine arts museum in Doha, Qatar - an Arab capital - at a time when Syrian children...
The Muslim ban did not happen in one day - and it means more than one thing. The Muslim ban did not happen last January or later in...
The Al Jazeera Investigations expose of how the Israel lobby seeks to manipulate British politics has had a global reception far beyond the United...
Much of the public animus hyped against Trump, to be sure, is partisan. The liberal elite are livid, caught off guard with their hands in the cookie...
On an ethereally sunny and surreal day in Doha, in the company of a dear Qatari artist friend, we walked into Qatar Museum Gallery Alriwaq, now...
I have now blissfully forgotten how many times I have visited Istanbul, or why is it I feel so much at home there. It was a sheer joy of being in a...
Hours before the scheduled third and final debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas, The New York Times published an article in...
“Why Bourne is better than Bond” asked a recent article in GQ, to which it offered a simple response: “James Bond is a right-wing...
What do we exactly do with such ‘iconic’ images? What did we do with that other “iconic” image of the lifeless Syrian...
“You are something to behold!” I called Abbas Kiarostami the day after I arrived in Tehran in the summer of 1997 to tell him I had just...
In the United States presidential elections, there are two towering political parties – the Democratic and the Republican - that during the...
The appalling news of a young Italian graduate student being kidnapped, tortured and killed in Egypt has shocked the academic world in Europe...
According to reports, Iran has detained 10 US sailors after two small patrol boats “drifted into Iranian waters in the Gulf,” US officials...
United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama...
"Media outlets have been reluctant," writes Brit Bennett for the New York Times, “to classify the Charleston shooting as terrorism, despite how...
The mass murder of nine African Americans in a landmark church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, allegedly by a racist supremacist sporting...
With Prince releasing ‘Baltimore’ song on Twitter, the massive civil unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore enters the fertile soil of popular culture...
In mid April, I visited Phoenix, Arizona, to deliver a plenary keynote at a conference on ‘People’s Peace’, organised by the Center for...
A peculiar aspect of watching popular television series these days is that you can binge and watch them back to back with such time-lapsed eagerness...
What happens to an otherwise exquisite scholar with a stellar record of critical thinking when he is suddenly stricken with a rather late middle age...
There are scarce any Shakespearean passage more potent, more visceral, more laden with painful force than the lines delivered with dreaded precision...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was still in the air between Tel Aviv and Washington when his propaganda machinery was set fully in...
