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Ziyad Motala

Ziyad Motala

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Teaching international law in an age that no longer pretends to obey it

Teaching international law in an age that no longer pretends to obey it
14.01.2026 84

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

We just witnessed power kidnapping the law

We just witnessed power kidnapping the law
04.01.2026 70

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

Never again, except for Palestinians: The moral realignment

29.12.2025 15

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

FIFA’s moral collapse: The day FIFA forgot what peace means

11.12.2025 55

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

In Mamdani’s win, New York has reclaimed democracy from those who sold it

05.11.2025 77

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

Van Jones and the moral vacancy of American commentary on Gaza

08.10.2025 69

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

Britain, Canada and Australia’s hollow recognition: Recognition without consequence

22.09.2025 22

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Israel’s bombing of Qatar: A lesson in servility

10.09.2025 41

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Courtiers in kufiyas: The grotesque spectacle of Arab “scholars” subjugation before Israeli power

10.07.2025 48

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

The desert pharaohs: Gulf monarchs, Trump, and the great betrayal of Palestine and the Islamic conscience

05.05.2025 17

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

The US Constitution was not made to protect against Trump

The belief that the US Constitution can protect against despotism has always been an illusion.

26.02.2025 20

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

The white man’s burden redux: Trump, Musk, and the fabricated persecution of Afrikaners

10.02.2025 54

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Big Tech's complicity in genocide: The unforgivable silence of online platforms

22.09.2024 45

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Cheney’s policies as VP caused immense human suffering on a global scale

In an unsurprising yet telling development, Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney has thrown his support behind the Democratic presidential...

12.09.2024 14

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala