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From Spain to Syria, all countries along the northern coast of the Mediterranean were rocked by wildfires, deaths, and evacuations this summer. The Balkans also suffered. The fires resulted in record high emissions, heating the globe further and preparing the way for more intense calamities.

 Kids Under Fire (2025)

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Alongside their explicitly genocidal utterances since October, 2023, Israeli officials have repeatedly emphasized that the State’s military assault on Gaza is not directed at Gaza’s civilians but is instead a defensive war against Hamas. Gaza’s own journalists, however, have broadcast n..

As the world learns more about Israel’s slaughter in Gaza amid a cautious ceasefire, we host two prominent journalists, Said Arikat and Sam Husseini, who have been in the forefront of “Questioning the State” at Press briefings in the United States. In addition to the horrendous treatment one of ..

Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat, joined the BBC last night to discuss the tenuous ceasefire agreement. Despite 15 months of genocide that has destroyed Gaza and killed an estimated 2 percent of Gaza’s Palestinian population, the anchor wanted to scrutinize Hamas, Erakat insisted on setting the..

October typically marks the peak of the olive harvest season in Lebanon, a time when families across the south come together to harvest, mill, press, and refine olives into olive oil. Yet, this year, for many residents of South Lebanon, October has become a painful reminder of loss: this year is..

In this 13th episode of Gaza on My Mind / غزّة على بالي, we converse with Pharmacist and writer Omar Hamad from Gaza about the continuing calamity there amid ceasefire theater (in Arabic). We also discuss with Paris-based Poli..

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabanni joined CNN on 24 August to discuss the ongoing negotiations around a ceasefire in Gaza, the likelihood of reaching a deal, and the roadblocks precluding it.

The collapse of Israel’s narrative regarding its war/genocide campaign in Gaza has is now a recognized reality. But not so in the U.S. halls of power. In foreign policy briefings at the U.S. State Department we continue to witness..

This proposal has stirred heated debate in Israel, while Hamas says more work needs to be done.

Reasonable people can see right through the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) blatant antisemitism, as it presided over South Africa’s charge of Genocide against Israel. Instead of throwing out the case and the demand for immediate ceasefire along with it, the ICJ called for the end to all ..

Palestinian scholar Areej Sabbagh-Khoury was traumatized in her childhood by the loss of her loving father whom, she avers, could perhaps have been saved by medical staff at a Galilee hospital were it not for the breakout of the 1982 Israeli war on Lebanon and the priority given at the hospital ..

In this interview with Al Jazeera English, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses the ceasefire that went into  force between Israel and Palestinian organizations in the Gaza Strip on 21 May. He addresses its broader impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations, as well as Israel's de..

For eleven days and nights the Israeli air force, which has unfettered control of the skies, and supported by ground and naval artillery surrounding the Gaza Strip on three sides, has relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip.

When massive numbers of Syrians fled to neighboring countries, remaining there since the beginning of 2011, I wondered what the effect would be, particularly on Jordan and Lebanon—countries with weak economies, scarce resources, little state welfare provision, ..

While working on our previous book, The Human Right to Dominate, we repeatedly encountered Israel’s accusation that Palestinians use human shields as a warfare strategy in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s argument was straightforward: Since Palestinian armed groups ..

Unprecedented waves of forest fires are remaking landscapes, politics, and communities globally. For many, these fires stress that the politics of the climate crisis are no longer the concern of a few, but urgent questions for all. But what precisely are the connections between c..

The slopes of Mount Cudi have been experiencing forest fires for weeks. The fires, which have burned uncontrolled for days in the Cevizdüzü, Anıldı, and Üçkiraz regions, are destroying the environment upon which nearby people and domestic animals depend, as well as wild flora and fauna. Villager..

Unprecedented waves of forest fires are remaking landscapes, politics, and communities globally. For many, these fires stress that the politics of the climate crisis are no longer the concern of a few, but urgent questions for all. But what precisely are the connections between climate and fires..

On 8 May 2020, the United States blocked a UN Security Council resolution calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to concentrate on battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Weeks of careful negotia..

The following is a selection by our editors of significant weekly developments in Syria. Depending on events, each issue will include anywhere from four to eight briefs. This series is produced in both Arabic and English in partnership between Salon Syria..

The U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, pleaded for a truce to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil war and prevent a “massacre” in the besieged eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus.

Ahmad is poised as a journalist from Kutum, a town that lies 120 kilm away from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in Sudan. His towering figure and wide shoulders sway slowly with each calculated step he takes around his home’s uneven floor, leaning on his aluminum cane for support. He is a..

In this interview with Al-Jazeera English, Jadaliyya Co-Editor and former head of political affairs for the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Mouin Rabbani discusses the recent US-Russian agreement to establish a ceasefire in Syria and use this as a springboard for th..