Researching our way to a brighter Arab future

Since the existence of independent nation states in the Middle East and North Africa, Iran has been one of the major players in the region. This fact was changed surprisingly little by the seismic shifts of 1979 […]

Apartheid Off Campus is a growing network of young activists across the United Kingdom, students leading the struggle to end their own universities’ complicity in the Israeli apartheid regime (hafrada, or “sep […]

A recurring theme throughout Arab literature is exile. Being far from home, far from one’s family, one’s land, or one’s country. In the 60s, my family left our homeland, Tunisia, in order to find a better life […]

The 2011 Jasmine Revolution ousted Ben Ali’s autocracy and introduced full democratic rule in Tunisia but, since then, it’s been commonly argued that the country’s economic performance has worsened – parti […]

If one could personify Libya as a victim of cancer, this patient would have doctors who weren’t competent enough to sustain a central nervous system prophylaxis, thereby letting the proliferating cancer cells e […]