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For the past 14 months, Turkey’s top-ranking Bogazici University has been under politically motivated attacks by government circles, which threatens its very existence as the last autonomous and free public university in the country. On 1 January 2021, President Erdogan appointed Melih Bulu, who..

For the past 14 months, Turkey’s top-ranking Bogazici University has been under politically motivated attacks by government circles, which threatens its very existence as the last autonomous and free public university in the country. On January 1, 2021, President Erdogan appointed Melih Bu..

Israel has subjected the Palestinian people for 73 years to an ongoing catastrophe, known as the Nakba, a process that included massive displacement, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

There are numerous interpretations as to why Britain issued the Balfour Declaration on 2 November 1917. It is important to recognize that Palestine is only the location, and not the explanatory core of these theories. Indeed, they tend to view Britain’s commitment to Zionism as the by-product of..

This declaration comes at a time of a blocked political horizon; evident by an escalation of the state’s increasing use of violence and repression, mounting numbers of political arrests and assassinations, aggressive policies against other states in the region, enforced disappearances and violen..

At the end of yet another round of negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan in Washington late January on the crisis of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egypt, and the U..

Just weeks before major elections in Israel that could determine the future of the embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump has bowed to his pressure by declaring the U.S. will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, in defiance of international law and..

Haytham is a war child who lives with his family in Khan Eshieh camp, home to some nine thousand Palestine refugees and one of the most embattled areas of the Syrian capital, Damascus. 

His story is increasingly common among UNRWA students in Syria. "I had to es..

[This week, the Saturday Mothers will be commemorating their five hundredth sit-in protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul. This statement of solidarity was released by the Scholars for Peace Initiative on 25 October 2014. The Scholars for Peace initiative focuses on creating peace among th..

We meet today to celebrate the second anniversary of the establishment of the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies. I am honoured to have been asked to deliver this first Annual Lecture. It is deeply gratifying to be addressi..

[Prefatory Note from Richard Falk: Posted here is a joint declaration of international law experts from around the world who are listed below as endorsers. I am among the endorsers, and the text was initially drafted by several ..

On 3 December 2013, Amr Moussa, the head of the Egyptian Committee of 50 tasked with amending the suspended Constitution of 2012, presented the new Egyptian draft constitution to the interim president of Egypt, Judge Adly Mansour.

The draft will be put to a referendum within thirty days of..

[The following press release was issued by the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association on December 15, 2013.]

Declaration of Support for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions..

For at least four months, Egypt’s legal framework will be the Constitutional Declaration issued by Interim President Adly Mansour on 8 July.

The thirty-three-article declaration has been designed to provide a basic constitutional backbone until a committee reviews the 2012 Constitution, ma..

Embattled Muslim Brotherhood issues statement rejecting new constitutional declaration outlining upcoming transitional period, describes document as `illegitimate`.

Egypt`s Muslim Brotherhood rejected a constitutional declaration issued by Egypt`s interim President Adly Mansour on Monday l..

Some critics say the new declaration includes controversial articles from the suspended 2012 constitution.

The constitutional declaration issued Monday night by interim president Adly Mansour has sparked opposition, with some calling for it to be amended before it comes into force when it ..

Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour has issued the anticipated constitutional declaration that will remain effective until the end of the ongoing transitional period, which will last for least six months according to the declaration.

The transitional period has started upon issuing of t..

[This statement was released by Emek ve Adalet Platformu (the Labor and Justice Coalition) on 14 June. For the Turkish version of this statement, click here

The executive order pledging to close Guantánamo within a year, signed by freshly inaugurated President Barack Obama on his second day in office, is a dead letter. Over the past two months, however, the president has recommitted to his 2009 pledge, including appointing a special envoy to ..

The recent clashes at the Itihadiyya presidential palace leave little room for confusion. A day prior to these events, people took to the streets in Egypt’s largest cities to d..

Clashes escalated between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi around the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Wednesday after the sit-in there was attacked.  

Tens of protesters staging a sit-in were confronted in the afternoon by a rally of hundreds of pro-Morsi demon..

The current events unfolding in Egypt test the limits of healthy transition to democracy. The process of drafting the new constitution has come out as the outcome of dire political struggle, rather than the outcome of national consensus that would propel the country through transitioning to rule..

With November nearly at an end, it seems like an eternity ago that Israel and Gaza were engaged in intense, if unequal fighting. Yet it was only two weeks ago that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi spent intense hours on the telephone with US President Barak Obama to craft a truce. N..

[The following joint statement was issued by twenty-two Egyptian rights organizations in response to the recent constitutional decleration by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The statement was originally published on 24 Novemeber 2012 by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.]<..