• July 19, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Netanyahu’s Congress and Iran’s nuclear deal

    The Iran-P5+1 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement is a major breakthrough in international diplomacy and points to a hopeful outcome for a region that has become accustomed to disappointment and chaos. After three years of long, intense multiple negotiation sessions, the concluded agreement provides for a pathway to resolve issues related to Iranian…

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  • July 6, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    On Burning Churches and Lynching!

    Since the murder of nine African Americans in the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, North Carolina, at least eight different black churches in the south have been torched, with three already confirmed as an arson attack. The last one in this string was the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, only…

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  • June 28, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Israeli war crimes and bringing an end to impunity

    On June 22, 2015, and almost a year after Israel’s assault on Gaza, the U.N. Human Rights Council independent commission of inquiry issued its report concluding that “serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by Israel and by Palestinian armed groups” occurred during the war. The report, like many earlier internationally…

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  • June 24, 2015 | Turkey Agenda

    The Mirage of White Victimhood

    Dylann Roof, the terrorist that attacked and murdered 9 African American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina framed his actions in a supposed defense of White people who are constructed as victims. In a posted internet manifesto, Dylann spoke of “integration” bringing “White people down to level of brute animals” and connecting it to the failing…

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  • June 22, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    America’s open secret: Racism and white supremacy

    Racism and white supremacy are deeply rooted in America’s social, cultural, political, economic and religious structures. American society is racially stratified with economic resources and foundational relations defined and shaped by it. Indeed, the racial hierarchy was embedded in society before America became America and it has never been undone despite claims of progress coming…

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  • June 8, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    OIC and the plight of the Rohingya

    The Rohingya join a long line of small, vulnerable minorities threatened with extinction. What makes their plight harder to accept, though, is that it is happening before our very eyes, unfolding on social media. We can speculate as to what will happen next, but we feel powerless to stop it. Worse, we appear unable to…

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  • May 31, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    On thinking outside the box: Spanish and Greek elections

    May 24, 2015 local elections in Spain brought a titanic shift in the country’s political landscape as Podemos (We Can), the newly formed far-left party, has registered major victories coming third and winning the mayor offices in Madrid, possibly Barcelona and Valencia. The victory disrupts the long standing two-party stranglehold on Spanish politics and certainly…

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  • May 25, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Sentencing Egypt to death and propping up the pharaoh

    The death sentence handed down by a Cairo court against Mohammed Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Egypt, is emblematic of the country’s transformation into a despotic and repressive military state. Since Abdul Fatah el-Sissi’s coup in July 2013, the Egyptian junta under his command has managed to kill thousands, imprison opposition members, sentence…

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  • December 14, 2014 | Al Jazeera

    Revisiting the British conquest of Jerusalem

    “…The Ottoman Government, in order to safeguard the religious places from ruin and destruction, has withdrawn its forces from the city and has commissioned officials to take care of the religious places like the Holy Sepulcher and the Aqsa Mosque. Hoping that your treatment will also be similar…” (Isa al-Safari, Filstin al-Arabiyah) On December 11,…

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