Franco Galdini @el_fra_ngo

Muftah spoke with author Jowan Mahmod about her first book, published by Palgrave and entitled Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing...

The illegal outpost of Amona in the Occupied West Bank is in the news again thanks to an Israeli Supreme Court decision ordering the settlement's evacuation...

Last Sunday, December 11, 79,6% of voters in Kyrgyzstan cast their ballots in favor of various constitutional amendments, which strengthen the powers of the...

This week, Croatian rockstar Marko Perković Thompson’s four-CD hit collection was once again the most sold in his home country. This wouldn’t be...

Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) - an independent UK-based theater company focussing “on social justice, taboo zones and violation of human rights across the...

In October 2016, the Network for Social Change's "Remote Control" project at the Oxford Research Group published a report on Yemen by writer and consultant...

If you are interested in southeastern Europe, you may have seen an advertisement for Belgrade Waterfront (BW) on your Facebook and Twitter feeds over the last...

If you have traveled to Europe or the United States on a Turkish Airlines flight in the past few months, chances are you found a booklet entitled FETO’s Coup...

For the past 49 years - and counting - the injustice known as the occupation of Palestine, and Israeli control of Palestinian lives in Gaza, the West Bank, and...

Earlier this month, the fifteenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan came and went with hardly a ripple. With the media in overdrive about the ongoing U.S....

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is a slim but dense volume of four essays previously published in the London Review of Books, by award-winning investigative...

Last Tuesday, September 13, former Israeli President Shimon Peres was hospitalized following a stroke. While his situation remains stable but critical, there...

Last week, the case of Giulio Regeni - the twenty-eight-year-old Italian graduate student brutally tortured and murdered in Cairo after disappearing on January...

At 6 p.m. today, September 10, Salt Peanuts will become the first band from Kyrgyzstan to perform on the prestigious Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in...

On Saturday, August 27, a massive fire engulfed a warehouse in Moscow. By the time firefighters managed to put it out, seventeen people had died inside the...

Last Sunday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson tweeted that “in response to the rocket attack from Gaza. IAF & armored corps targeted 2 Hamas...

Last week, The New York Times ran an article about a long forgotten video interview with Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, entitled Ben-Gurion...

On July 29, 2016, Kyrgyzstan’s speaker of parliament along, with the leaders of all but one parliamentary party, introduced a bill calling for a referendum...

On June 30, 2016, the Statistics Agency of Bosnia Herzegovina published the results of the country’s first population census since 1991. The actual survey...

China’s growing influence in Central Asia has been the subject of much debate in the media and among scholars in recent years. Much of the discussion centers...

At the start of the week, Kyrgyzstan's capital city, Bishek, seemed to be under siege, as hundreds of police officers blocked the main streets leading to the...

Amid the Brexit frenzy, the news that British businessman Sean Daley has sued a former Kyrgyz president’s son for attempted murder has received little...

A string of disgusting verbal and physical attacks against immigrants and minorities has followed the Leave campaign victory in the June 23 referendum, in...

The Northern League is an Italian political party with a long tradition of opposing immigration. Growing up in one of its strongholds in the Lombardy region of...

Last week, Reuters reported that the Italian Foreign Minister and his Libyan counterpart from the new national unity government were in talks to “renew a...

Thursday, May 12, was an eventful day in Kyrgyzstan. On that date, the country took two important steps on the path toward better rights for the country’s...

The detaining authority is responsible for those who die in detention, whether they are held in a traditional brick and mortar prison or large strip of land....

In the early morning hours of October 3, 2015, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-run hospital in the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan, came...

If you want to catch a glimpse of the parallel universe in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) live, I recommend you follow their official Twitter account...

In February 2016, the Central Eurasian Scholars and Media Initiative (CESMI) - whose stated goal is to create “a better informed and more constructive public...

On April 4, 2016, CNBC ran an article about Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud that read like a hagiography. The thirty-year-old prince -...

Following recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that “e are at war. We have been subjected for the last few...

On March 20, 2016, the people of Kazakhstan went to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections. The results were remarkably similar to previous contests:...

On February 26, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi visited his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital. Despite...

Despite strong sympathy for the Palestinian people among Italians, Italy’s political elite has unconditionally supported Israel since the 1990s. This is a...

The anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq is fast approaching. Operation Iraqi Freedom, which began on March 20, 2003, lasted slightly less than six...

As of February 18, Imad al-Husin, a Syrian national who has lived in Bosnia since the 1990s, is finally free. Or, at least, he has been released from the...

For the past few years, the government of Kyrgyzstan has been taking a leaf out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s book and regularly accusing civil...

A newcomer to Kyrgyzstan may be forgiven for thinking the country is facing mounting threats from ISIS’s rise and expansion. Between October and December...

When Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced early elections for April 26, 2015, a flurry of speculation ensued about the reasons for the decision. Far...