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How violence prevents healing after Islamic State
Comment: To begin healing in Iraq and Syria, we must find new strategies of acceptance that fight dehumanisation and radicalisation, writes Judit Neurink.
How Turkish law empowers abusers and denies women justice
Comment: A toxic mix of pervasive misogyny and policies that roll back essential baseline protections has seen the state of women's rights in ...
Myanmar's young demand their future
Comment: Myanmar's younger generation knows what it's like to enjoy better prospects and freedoms. The generals must return Myanmar to the ...
Post-war Iraq at 18: A state of impunity endures
Comment: The impunity with which the US waged their invasion of Iraq paved the ...
How Biden failed his own litmus test on Egypt
Comment: The Sisi regime will take Biden's exoneration of Beblawi as a sign that the new administration is willing to informally green light its human rights abuses, writes Sam Hamad.
For true JCPOA re-entry, Biden must tear down sanctions
Comment: Trump's sanctions will have to go if the Biden administration intends to have any policy success with respect to Iran, write Tyler Cullis and Trita Parsi.
The world watches Lebanon on brink of collapse
Comment: Emile Nakhleh examines how corruption has brought Lebanese society to the brink, and why the international community and its institutions must hastily re-imagine innovative ways for it to survive.
Whitewashing state racism: 40 years after the Brixton uprising
Comment: Today, just as in the 80s, communities of colour are being driven to protest, only to be met with a government that denies the ...
To honour Mohammed Saleem, UK must officially define Islamophobia
Comment: For Maz Saleem, whose father was killed by a white supremacist, adopting an official, legal definition of Islamophobia would provide the weight necessary to seek justice.
Comment: Those protesting images of the prophet being shown in a class on blasphemy display the kind of intolerance our schools are working to overcome, writes Khaled Diab.
Comment: Feeling threatened by protests, high unemployment, and a dismal economy, King Abdullah may see this as a useful excuse to clamp down on any criticism, writes Annelle Sheline.
EU pact reiterates shared commitment to keeping refugees out
Comment: The EU says it wants to help refugees, but the new pact reflects the same mindset of deterrence and dissuasion, focusing on border controls and returns, writes Tommaso Segantini.
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