Our individual core beliefs often serve as guiding principles that define our moral compass, transcending religious or cultural affiliations. Regardless of our backgrounds, certain values should be non-negotiable — values that compel us to break the silence and challenge ignorance, ...
As of Nov 10, 2023, over 11,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government. Israel says that this is in response to the terrorist attack carried out by Hamas on Oct 7, 2023, which was said to have taken ...
The Israel-Palestine conflict — although I try to refrain from calling it a “conflict,” as “genocide” is a far more adequate term — is not a religious issue. If the roles were reversed, and it was an oppressive Muslim nation ...
On the morning of Oct. 7, militants of the terrorist group Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza, ransacking homes in nearby towns and storming the Nova music festival, where over 260 people were slaughtered. As a result of the surprise air, ...
In the early morning of Saturday, October 7, Hamas began firing missiles on targets throughout Israel. An hour after the missile strikes, Hamas militants infiltrated various Israeli towns and military bases near Gaza after breaking through the border wall at ...
The current Yemen Civil War is just the latest in a series of domestic conflicts that have plagued the country, causing widespread famine and displacement and resulting in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. While it is easy to ...
Yassar Dahbour is a Palestinian political activist who was born in a refugee camp in Syria after his family was expelled from Palestine in 1948. Now living in Sacramento, California, he is a founder and board member of the Sacramento ...
The Arab Spring, a series of anti-government uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in the early 2010s, aimed to address long-standing grievances against the region’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. While the string of revolutions resulted in modest political, ...
With important domestic and foreign policies in Turkey’s horizon, the May 14 elections are of critical importance to Turkey, Europe, the Middle East and global policy at large. Fethi Can Yaşar is the representative of the U.S. youth branch of ...
When I was two, my dad took me to an Iraq war protest in Dallas. Proudly dressed in a white kufi with his long beard, a “war kills children” sign hanging from his neck and me sitting on his shoulders, ...