Asa Winstanley/ Middle East Monitor Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers. Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in Israeli School Books” is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some important realities about the Israeli state and Israeli society. As…
I don’t know if we will be able to rebuild our house again or not! My husband lost all his hope and is walking around like a mad man! I told him everything will be fine again. He looked at me straight into my eyes with no faith in them at all. But I believe…
Saba Naqvi/Daily O If shareholders in a company have the right to updates on the financial health of the firm, why don’t voters have the right to demand accountability from a political party? And if the enterprise is failing, surely a restructuring is the need of the hour. It’s been over two months since the…
Aisha Maathai/ Seven Billion Today I am so proud to be Kenyan… so much so that I want to share this wonderful and brilliant news wit you all… so…Kenya will become the first country in Africa to collect data on intersex people in its national population census. Overall, this is a huge win for rights…
Jane Younger/ Khaleej Times The first thing I should probably say is that while a lot of people think polar bears and penguins live together, in fact they live at opposite ends of the Earth. Polar bears live in the northern hemisphere and penguins live in the southern hemisphere.All these penguins have special adaptations to…
Arshad Mahmud/Asia Times Not part of China’s ‘string of pearls’ in Dhaka’s view. Bangladesh is close to signing an agreement with China aimed at building a permanent base for stationing and servicing the two Chinese submarines it bought for $203 million nearly three years ago. The proposed base at Pekua, off the coast of Kutubdia…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Writer, researcher & columnist The Rohingya crisis is a refugee boat dilemma, which caught the attention of international podium in the second half of May 2015 when the government of Myanmar state sponsored religious and ethnic discrimination against the Muslims of Burma. The Rohingya crisis highlights both humanitarian and security implications…