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, ...
On Sept. 13, 2022, Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman, was reportedly arrested for wearing her hijab improperly — a violation of the Iranian dress code, which requires women to conceal their hair and necks with headscarves. Three days later Amini ...
Saudi Arabia has been almost entirely dependent on the revenue earned from oil exports since oil was first discovered in the country in 1938 in Dammam. This allowed the industrialization and social and economic development of the nation into one ...
Morocco’s soccer sphere recently re-entered the newswave when the Moroccan government announced it was not going to participate in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament hosted in Algeria this year– a tournament they had previously won in 2021. After not ...
The line is a linear smart city, designed to have no cars, streets or carbon emissions. It is currently under construction in Saudi Arabia in Neom, Tabuk Province. It will be 110 miles long and is expected to house 9 ...
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have had a symbiotic relationship based on mutual economic and security interests since 1945, when former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former King of Saudi Arabia Abdulaziz Al Saud launched their long-lasting partnership during ...