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But, aside from the vilifying Israeli and Western hasbara, Yahya Sinwar, for the Palestinian people and for many around the world, cuts a profile of a heroic figure that lived, fought and died legendarily. His was a rebellious and free soul as reported by Nabeeh ‘Awada, a Lebanese commu..

Multiple fractures, cigarette burns, abrasions, fingernails forcibly removed and every finger broken, dozens of lacerations all over the body, on the soles of feet and ears all ending in a broken neck and suffocation. Giulio’s body was found semi-naked by the side of the road. 

The ma..

What is in a name? When the name is thawra or inqilab, revolution or coup, everything. Or so it would seem in light of the intense debates and major PR campaigns

[Amal Dunqul (1940-1983) was part of what is known as the "sixties generation" of Egyptian poets and one of the most significant (political) poets of modern Arabic literature who remains largely untranslated. Dunqul was born in Upper Egypt..

During the past two weeks, the United States and the European Union released their annual human rights and progress reports, respectively, on Israel. Each one substantially criticized the state of minority rights in the country. The US State Department called the "institutional and societal..

Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011.

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“What are you getting out of this?” This is the question I have been asked over and over for the past ten months and three weeks by people in my real life. It is a legitimate question for all of us. What have all the hours we have spent tweeting and retweeting and Facebooking and blogging and wr..

[Updated with an interview by Al-Jazeera English with Hossam El-Hamalawy, below]

In a seeming repeat of an otherwise bygone era, today`s military crackdown on demonstrators in Cairo`s Tahrir Square is a tangible reminder that the most delicate and strategic work for effecting a robu..

It is inevitable that a dancer watching a dance performance, a film-maker watching a film, a musician watching a concert will take notice of details and little tricks that are not available to most others. A skilful camera movement, a new interpretation of a well-k..