The Iraq Election: What You Need to Know
I've seen a few diaries and some political analysis on the news about the Iraqi election results, and the analyses offered have been fairly simplistic and limited. So, I'll try to keep this short and...
View ArticleThe Larger Picture: US Policy in the Middle East
There have been many diaries on the events that transpired regarding the Free Gaza flotilla. And some of them have pointed to the larger picture and the structural causes of events such as these,...
View ArticleThe Ethnic Cleansing of Iraqi Christians
The bloodbath at the Sayyidat al Najat (Our Lady of Salvation) Catholic Church in Baghdad on October 31, where religious extremists stormed a congregation of hundreds in prayer and massacred dozens,...
View ArticleMy Cairo
The revolution in Egypt is intensely emotional for me. I have many close friends who have been deeply involved in the pro-democracy movement in Egypt for years. Over the years they have been beaten,...
View ArticleHistorical Amnesia and Why I'm NOT Celebrating
Amid the jingoistic, hyper-nationalist response to the killing of Osama Bin Laden ("America, Fuck Yeah!") is the willfully ignored (by the media and by most Americans, left and right, including the...
View ArticleProfessor Cornel West endorses Palestinian BDS (Boycott, Divestment,...
About the series: Adalah ("justice" in Arabic) is a diary series about the Middle East, with special (but not exclusive) emphasis on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors of this series believe in the...
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