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The Middle East and North Africa region, a critical epicentre of the climate crisis marked by water scarcity, rising temperatures, and increasingly frequent natural disasters, has taken centre stage by hosting the last two UN Climate Change Conferences. But why is it that the MENA and Arab region seem to be failing in their climate change response? Take water scarcity. Fourteen of the 25 countries facing "extremely high water stress" are in MENA; 8 of the top 10 most water-stressed countries are Arab. And whilst it may be easy to chalk this up to natural limitations, there are many examples of...
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the leading party in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, expected to win a thumping majority in the 18th Indian parliamentary election. Having been Prime Minister since 2014, Modi and the BJP expected to win over 400 seats in the 543-seat parliament. As it turned out, the BJP won 240 seats — down by 63 — and its alliance won 293 seats. To form a government, the largest party or bloc needs 272 seats, which meant that the BJP needed its allies and was – after some drama – able to secure the fealty of the lar...
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A diplomatic truism of the past century is that Jordan's stability is important to the rest of the region and beyond. Jordanian diplomacy touts the country as an asset, while links to America flourish. Thanks to free trade agreements, the US has become the largest market for Jordanian goods, taking 20% of the kingdom’s exports, while such events as the Eager Lion annual military exercise, which returned to Jordan last month, is a US-led effort. The relationship between America and Jordan is even vaster, extending to education and overwhelming aid funding. Though other players exist, including ...
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A diplomatic truism of the past century is that Jordan's stability is important to the rest of the region and beyond. Jordanian diplomacy touts the country as an asset, while links to America flourish. Thanks to free trade agreements, the US has become the largest market for Jordanian goods, taking 20% of the kingdom’s exports, while such events as the Eager Lion annual military exercise, which returned to Jordan last month, is a US-led effort. The relationship between America and Jordan is even vaster, extending to education and overwhelming aid funding. Though other players exist, including ...
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Those familiar with Karim Khan's track record as International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor know that the arrest warrants for war crimes in Gaza are a dramatic u-turn of past form. Since Khan took office in the summer of 2021, he has been largely inactive in investigating Israeli crimes in Palestine, stalling proceedings, and in general showing a marked disinterest in the victims of Israel's occupation. This evasive apathy, his subservience towards the US, and his bias towards Israel have earned him the reputation of being closer to the tyrants and criminals that he is prosecuting than to t...
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When the United States turned to torture after 9/11, it remained a closely guarded secret for over two years. Yet the early signs were there in public for those who knew how to interpret them. Images were released in January 2002 of detainees in Guantanamo Bay wearing orange uniforms, manacled, masked and kneeling on the ground with heads bowed. Officials spoke of the detainees in dehumanising terms in speeches and interviews which were littered with tough talk. As one CIA official told a reporter, “After 9/11, the gloves came off.” Two months after the Hamas attack on October 7, we saw the fi...
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I remember seeing for months, when I was just eight years old, the footage of 9/11 first responders coated in fine dust as they ran in and out of the collapsing towers and pulled victims from the rubble. This dust, we would later learn, was highly toxic, containing high levels of carcinogens like asbestos and lead, pulverised concrete that causes a pulmonary condition called silicosis, and thousands of other contaminants. The deleterious effects of this exposure became a recurring story simmering in the background of my young adulthood as the first responders began grappling with their health ...
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On Saturday, October 7 2023, a significant shift occurred in the Palestinian-Israeli narrative. A normalised, gradual genocide over 76 years of Zionist colonialism, peppered by savage episodes of “mowing the lawn”, obscured by liberal Zionist propaganda and backed by imperial Washington, became an unapologetic, even gleeful mass murder of Palestinians, grotesquely captured on video for the world to witness. Throughout its history, the Zionist movementhas exploited fear-mongering and the lure of land and resource theft to subjugate and entice its populace into compliance. In the aftermath of Oc...
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Recognising a Palestinian state is the moral thing to do and the only way to achieve a just peace in the Middle East. To convince the next Israeli government that Palestinians must have full political rights, a fresh wave of countries extending formal recognition – as Spain, Ireland, and Norway have just done – is necessary. But, to prevent this wave from petering out in a puddle of performative symbolism, supporters must emphasise that the Palestinian state can be neither a mirror image of Israel nor a means of strictly separating Jews from Palestinians. Set aside the sad fact that no Israeli...
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It's hard to think of a writer more contentious than Salman Rushdie. From death threats to fatwas, insult to injury, the Indian-born British-American author has carved out a career from controversy, becoming a martyr in the process. The darkened lens over his right eye is now a symbol of sacrifice, lost in a life-changing and condemnable attack two years ago. To some, he's a liberal hero — the ultimate champion of secularism and free speech who becomes more revered the more he's attacked. But to Muslims like me, Salman Rushdie is the embodiment of modern-day Islamophobia, a literary figure who...
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