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LGBTQ rights supporters rejoiced on Thursday with news that homosexuality is no longer illegal in Lebanon.  A court ruling abolished a case against an unnamed transwoman – accused of having a “same sex...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, Palestinian photographer and filmmaker Samar Hazboun shares her stark and powerful images of Palestinian women.   Aya Khatib - Wishes for a Better...

For a short summary of this article, please see: Iran’s Economy Crisis: A Failure of Planning by Reza Ghasimi   For many years, medium-term economic planning has played an important role in Iranian...

Walking in the old city of Jerusalem, there is a significant institution that might easily go unnoticed: the Khalidi Library. The organization is a hidden treasure housed in a thirteenth century Mamluk...

Turkish soap operas are a world-wide phenomenon, but none more so than drama about the life of the Ottoman Empire’s most famous sultan, known in the west as Suleyman the Magnificent, who ruled from 1520 to...

I read with interest Muftah editor’s Riad Alarian's column on recent statements about the refugee crisis made by Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, in an April interview with the UK’s Channel 4 News....

When acts of terrorism in Boston or Paris take precedence over similar attacks in Ankara or Karachi, we often feel a sense of moral outrage at the news media for reminding us of a truism so blatant it hardly...

Three years after the Arab Spring began, prospects for a more democratic Middle East seem worse than ever. Political transitions appear stalled in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, while most other protest movements...

The noted critic of Israel, Norman Finkelstein, once wrote that it was a rite of passage for “left apostates,” namely those who had allegedly abandoned their leftist principles, to criticize Noam Chomsky....

Palestinians can propagate Zionist ideas, too. One of the most prominent examples is Nuseir Yassin, better known as Nas, a Muslim Palestinian citizen of Israel who has become famous through his video blogs....