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Nesrine MalikThe Guardian |
A consensus is building. On 5 December, Amnesty International concluded after an investigation that “Israel has committed and is continuing to...
Last week, time collapsed. Bashar al-Assad’s fall recalled scenes across the region from the start of the Arab spring almost 14 years ago....
For the past few months, there has been a grim new ritual whenever I meet people from some Arab countries. It’s a sort of mutual commiseration...
The day that wokeness died. That has been one of the primary analyses of Donald Trump’s resounding election victory: that it was a resounding...
The most useful lesson of growing up under a dictatorship is that dictatorships are never absolute. Sometimes they are even democracies – ones...
I would be sceptical of post-election analyses in the wake of what is seen as a shock result. For both sides, voting patterns at this point are a...
So here we are. Kemi Badenoch is the leader of the Conservative party. That’s another couple of firsts that the Tories have beaten Labour to. So...
More than a year into Israel’s war in Gaza, it is hard to talk of “escalation”. Because to isolate single moments of military escalation, such...
I began to write this column last week in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. I started it several times, both on the page and in my head, as I...
A common defence of Israel’s belligerence, both within the Palestinian territories and in the wider region, is the claim that it must act in this...
What do you think of when you hear the words “racially aggravated public order offence”? Someone being called the N-word or P-word, perhaps? An...
Once again the gap between politics and media, on one hand, and the general public, on the other, continues to be revealed in its scale. Survey...