October 17th, 20250Temporary peace, permanent doubt: The fragile truce between Israel and Gaza
Here is a clear-eyed look at the new Israel Gaza ceasefire. It is a moment many people prayed to see. The guns have fallen quiet. Hostages are coming home. Prisoners are stepping off buses to tearful embraces. The United Nations and aid agencies are rushing...
October 16th, 20250The Gaza war has become more than a humanitarian disaster — it has become a lens through which we see the truth about power, leadership and representation. For Muslims around the world, it has been a moment to face difficult questions about who governs in our name, whose interests they serve and whether they share the moral convictions...
August 29th, 20250When Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” in her reflections on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, she shocked the world by suggesting that unspeakable crimes could be carried out not only by fanatics but by ordinary men who operated through bureaucratic obedience and a refusal to think critically about the consequences...
March 21st, 20251On Thursday a federal judge ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar who was detained by the Trump administration and accused of spreading anti-Israeli propaganda in the latest battle over speech on U.S. college campuses.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered that Indian...
October 16th, 20180The disappearance and possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a long shadow over Saudi Arabia’s global image. If the Saudi government did in fact kill or kidnap him, the crime would have significant implications for Middle East politics.
Turkish authorities believe he has been killed and his body, possibly...