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Indonesia’s half-hearted response to Khamenei’s funeral undermines its own foreign policy

Indonesia’s half-hearted response to Khamenei’s funeral undermines its own foreign policy

Indonesia eventually sent Foreign Minister Sugiono and MPR Speaker Ahmad Muzani to attend the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Will Syria’s first lady stand for justice or protect the shadow of the past? asks Yvonne Ridley in an open letter to Latifa al-Daroubi

Dear Madam al-Daroubi, Assalamu Alaikum — Peace be upon you. You have been thrust from the shadows into the world’s most unforgiving spotlight,...

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Dr Yvonne Ridley

Correcting a mistake, not retreating: Why ending the war could restore Trump’s credibility

Correcting a mistake, not retreating: Why ending the war could restore Trump’s credibility

As renewed U.S.-Iran clashes around the Strait of Hormuz threaten to unravel another diplomatic pause, an old Chinese proverb offers a useful warning:...

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Greg Pence

The geopolitics of spare capacity: The hidden weapon in energy diplomacy

The geopolitics of spare capacity: The hidden weapon in energy diplomacy

For decades, energy power has been measured by familiar metrics: the size of a country’s oil reserves, its daily production and the scale of its...

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Trump’s “Memorandum of Surrender”: The art of the deal meets the fact of defeat

Trump’s “Memorandum of Surrender”: The art of the deal meets the fact of defeat

Donald Trump is not negotiating with Iran. He is negotiating with the humiliation of having failed to break it. Beneath the ceasefires, memoranda,...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Rivalries and anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz railway

Rivalries and anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz railway

History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished.  When it...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Two Clocks, Two Egos, and the Gods Who Are Never Late

Two Clocks, Two Egos, and the Gods Who Are Never Late

Sophocles put it in four words the Chorus never had to repeat: “Pride breeds the tyrant.” Twenty-five centuries later, two men who believe...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The man who made the world need Qatar

The man who made the world need Qatar

The Father Emir is gone. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who died on Sunday at 74, was the architect of modern Qatar. But that description, however...

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Iran is China’s indispensable partner, but Beijing will never fight its war

Iran is China’s indispensable partner, but Beijing will never fight its war

There is a seductive myth that China and Iran are allies bound by blood and ideology, that Beijing would ride to Tehran’s rescue the way NATO would...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

From proxy war to Gulf rivalry: Yemen’s new battle for influence

From proxy war to Gulf rivalry: Yemen’s new battle for influence

For more than a decade, Yemen has been viewed primarily through the lens of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Tehran’s support for the...

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Eko Ernada

Time as power: Why timing is reshaping energy diplomacy in the Middle East

Time as power: Why timing is reshaping energy diplomacy in the Middle East

For decades, energy diplomacy in the region has been understood through three familiar dimensions: geography, natural resources and infrastructure....

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Massad Boulos: Like a man calling Libyans to prayer from Malta

Massad Boulos: Like a man calling Libyans to prayer from Malta

When Massad Boulos, the US President’s Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, chooses to meet senior Libyan officials from both East and West...

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Karam Nama

Hossam Abu Safiya; when a hostage sounds the alarm on behalf of thousands of detainees

Hossam Abu Safiya; when a hostage sounds the alarm on behalf of thousands of detainees

At certain moments, a person transcends the self, and their voice becomes the voice of an entire community. This is precisely what is happening today...

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Adnan Hmidan

Funding failed paradigms for Palestinians in Gaza

Humanitarian aid is a failed paradigm, be it the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or the Board of Peace’s scheming. UNRWA has...

09.07.2026 50

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Ramona Wadi

The 4th of July: Tehran’s Funeral and Trump’s Birthday

The 4th of July: Tehran’s Funeral and Trump’s Birthday

The  meticulously disorganised  250th  anniversary of American  independence was  branded as the dawn of a new ‘golden  age ’, with the...

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Dr Sahar Huneidi

India’s Israeli mirror

India’s Israeli mirror

Nations do not usually commit suicide in one spectacular act. They do it by acquiring a taste for poison and calling it policy. They rename moral...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

How Israel and American Zionists are canceling First Amendment

How Israel and American Zionists are canceling First Amendment

While the world’s attention has been consumed by the Iran war, the fragile Lebanon ceasefire, and Trump’s reality show — AKA the “Board of...

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Jamal Kanj

How Ankara rewired Syria’s future

How Ankara rewired Syria’s future

The Trump–al‑Sharaa summit in Ankara was not diplomacy. It was a structural detonation—one that has dragged Syria out of humanitarian paralysis...

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Deferring a Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks

Deferring a Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks

Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction.  Missiles still get fired; airstrikes...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Lebanon’s Faustian bargain: The mirage of the trilateral framework

Lebanon’s Faustian bargain: The mirage of the trilateral framework

Can Lebanon extract a genuine, equitable peace from the 26th June Trilateral Framework Agreement (TFA)? The simple answer is yes, but that “yes”...

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Israel debated: Why Palestine is rewriting the rules of domestic US politics

Israel debated: Why Palestine is rewriting the rules of domestic US politics

A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare and telling record vote...

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Palestinian survivor of the Gaza genocide wins gold at São Paulo Math Olympiad

Palestinian survivor of the Gaza genocide wins gold at São Paulo Math Olympiad

Fifteen-year-old Palestinian student Tala Mohammed Awad, a survivor of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, has won a gold medal in the second...

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Eman Abusidu

Trump and Iran: The beginning of a war or just microphone noise?

Trump and Iran: The beginning of a war or just microphone noise?

What does it mean for Donald Trump to choose Ankara—politically and geographically the closest major capital to Iran—to declare that the...

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Karam Nama

When the Street Becomes the Ballot Box: National Funerals and the Politics of Meaning

When the Street Becomes the Ballot Box: National Funerals and the Politics of Meaning
08.07.2026 40

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Peter Rodgers

Egypt’s educated youth turn to delivery work

Egypt’s educated youth turn to delivery work
08.07.2026 50

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Mahmoud Hassan

Hamas is leaving government, not the resistance

Hamas is leaving government, not the resistance
07.07.2026 50

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

NATO 3.0 and energy security: Rebalancing transatlantic defence in Ankara

NATO 3.0 and energy security: Rebalancing transatlantic defence in Ankara
07.07.2026 50

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Dr Umud Shokri

Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk

Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk
07.07.2026 50

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Ramona Wadi

World Cup Trump cards: Infantino, FIFA and the meddlesome US President

World Cup Trump cards: Infantino, FIFA and the meddlesome US President
07.07.2026 50

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

The future of Gulf energy and trade routes after the Hormuz crisis

The future of Gulf energy and trade routes after the Hormuz crisis
06.07.2026 50

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Zahra Niazi

Ali Khamenei and Palestine as the enduring axis of the Islamic revolution

Ali Khamenei and Palestine as the enduring axis of the Islamic revolution
06.07.2026 50

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Khamenei’s funeral makes clear the global order is moving on

Khamenei’s funeral makes clear the global order is moving on
06.07.2026 50

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Israel’s relentless quest for a next enemy

Israel’s relentless quest for a next enemy
05.07.2026 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Could Israel aid mission open the door to renewed Venezuela-Israel relations?

Could Israel aid mission open the door to renewed Venezuela-Israel relations?
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Eman Abusidu

Right to breathe: Unfiltered messages from Gaza to President Catherine Connolly

Right to breathe: Unfiltered messages from Gaza to President Catherine Connolly
05.07.2026 50

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

The funeral that reveals a world divided

The funeral that reveals a world divided
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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Two scorpions in a jar

Two scorpions in a jar
03.07.2026 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The geopolitics of energy storage: Who will control the batteries of the Middle East?

The geopolitics of energy storage: Who will control the batteries of the Middle East?
03.07.2026 50

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

One thousand days of war: Why Israel failed to defeat Palestine

One thousand days of war: Why Israel failed to defeat Palestine
03.07.2026 60

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Great power competition under Trump: The Greenland crisis as a case study

Great power competition under Trump: The Greenland crisis as a case study
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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Rouzaina… the true face of Syria

02.07.2026 60

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Karam Nama

What Recent Democratic Primaries Reveal About the 2024 DNC Autopsy?

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Jamal Kanj

Colonial expansion is always accompanied by the international community’s unspoken consent

02.07.2026 60

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Ramona Wadi

The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader: America’s strategic miscalculation under the shadow of Israeli narratives

As Iran prepares for the funeral ceremonies of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the former Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, the scale of...

02.07.2026 60

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Timothy Hopper

Gaza on the edge of forced displacement: Israel’s new language for an old policy

In politics, words are not changed for no reason. When a policy becomes too costly morally, legally, or internationally, states do not always abandon...

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Tamer Ajrami

Monsters playing victims: Danny Danon’s twisted war on the truth

Whether Israelis will ever comprehend the irreparable damage inflicted upon their country’s reputation by their UN Ambassador, Danny Danon, is a...

02.07.2026 60

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

The Green Zone Always Wins

Counter-Terrorism Service sealed every entrance to Baghdad’s Green Zone and moved with military precision through the residential compounds within....

02.07.2026 70

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

White Flag Judgments: Palestine Action, Protest and the UK Courts

The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino rather than a...

01.07.2026 60

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Beyond a Ceasefire: The Lebanon-Israel Framework Seeks to Reorder Power in the South

The 14-point U.S.-brokered framework signed in Washington on June 26 is being presented as a way to end the immediate fighting between Lebanon and...

01.07.2026 60

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Greg Pence

Ceasefire, the Memorandum of Understanding, and intermittent exchanges of fire: Can Iran and the US negotiate a permanent peace treaty?

The post-February 2026 war period marks a new phase in US–Iran relationship, a relationship of strange diplomatic impasse characterized by no war,...

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Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman