Heather Hartlaub @hmhart09

One of the biggest winners of Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, the Oscars, did not show up. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, the winner for best...

There are some shady work-arounds happening in President Donald Trump’s administration following the failure of the Muslim ban. After the 9th Circuit...

Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the Hadash party and leader of the Joint List, the Arab bloc in the Knesset, published an op-ed in The New York Times over the...

The day before President Donald Trump signed an executive order, since nicknamed the “Muslim Ban,” Philadelphia’s city council was busy supporting its...

The commercials are arguably the best part of any Super Bowl, and this year was no different. What was different though, was the tone. Most years companies...

Can a 350-year-old epic poem teach us anything about pluralism and marginalization in the modern world? Milton in the Arab-Muslim World, the new,...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, January 27, that banned nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United...

Millions of people participated in Women’s Marches around the world this past Saturday, January 21, protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of...

Over Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend, yet another person joined the hallowed hundreds to have been insulted by Donald Trump. U.S. Representative John...

Santa Claus comes to town on December 25, but what if there are two December 25ths? While most Christians use the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used...

A year ago this week, Canada welcomed 163 Syrian refugees, the first to be brought to the country under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s refugee resettlement...

Albert Einstein. Audrey Hepburn. Nikola Tesla. Jackie Chan. Andrew Carnegie. We’ve all heard of these famous immigrants to the United States: inventors,...

The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza by Eyal Weizman. New York: Verso Press, 2012.  ISBN: 13579108642. Would there be...

In the days and weeks after Donald Trump won the presidential election, thousands of Americans demonstrated around the United States. They gathered in places...

One year ago, Donald Trump told an NBC News reporter that he would “absolutely” require all Muslims in the United States to register in a federal database....

President-elect Donald Trump could cause a rift between American and Israeli Jews over the course of his presidency, Shmuel Rosner, a senior fellow at the...

For the next two weeks, Morocco is hosting thousands of international officials at the UN climate change summit, COP22. The COP22, which is the...

The federal government of Australia wants to ban would be refugees and asylum seekers who attempt to reach the country without a visa from ever being settled...

Asma al-Assad, the glamorous first lady of Syria, gave her first interview in eight years this past week. Appearing on the Kremlin-owned Russian Channel 24,...

This past week, the Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alexander Yakovenko, published an op-ed in The Guardian justifying Russia’s continued support...

António Guterres, the former UN high commissioner for refugees and prime minister of Portugal, was picked by the Security Council to be the next UN secretary...

The first U.S. drone strike was conducted by the CIA in October 2001 in Afghanistan, supposedly, targeting Osama bin Laden. Since then, the United States has...

The first U.S. presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump will take place tonight at 9 pm eastern time....

Today, the United Nations is hosting a high-level summit of heads of state and governments to discuss the refugee and migration crisis “with the aim of...

This Friday, September 16, Netflix will premiere a new short documentary about the heroic volunteer first responders in Syria, The White...

Political pundits have been bemoaning Donald Trump's campaign’s lack of “ground game” – field operations, local campaign offices, phone banks, and door...

Over the past weekend, thousands marched in cities across Australia demanding the government shut down its offshore refugee detention centers. The protests...

This past Saturday, the UN yet again demanded that Australia close its “dire and untenable” island detention centers for migrants and refugees, following...

Thankfully, this week has been full of good news for a few of the 65.3 million refugees around the world. Here are some highlights: Team Refugees The Refugee...

This Friday, the first ever Refugee Olympic Team will walk in the opening ceremonies of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to compete on behalf of the 65.3 million...

Israel’s government continued its descent into a more discriminatory and oppressive regime this past week when the Knesset passed a law Wednesday, July 20...

Syrians have used social media to organize protests, circumvent censorship, and now, to help refugees find necessary resources. “I am a Syrian in...

The Guardian’s theater critic, Michael Billington, recently reviewed a new play in London, “Queens of Syria.” The seventy-five-minute production features...

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, a powerful and gifted author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, lauded for his work in...

You’ve seen us on the news: hordes of mindless zombies roaming the streets, our faces lit by the light of our phone screens. We are millennials, and we are...

On Thursday, June 23, the United Kingdom will vote on whether to remain in the European Union. While for months the economy was the top issue in the...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is being accused of “McCarthyism” for signing an executive order punishing those participating in the Boycott, Divestment,...

David Milliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, renewed his months long call for the end of the refugee camp system in an interview...

Last week, Greek authorities cleared out the infamously overcrowded and under-resourced UNHCR Idomeni camp. In a three day operation, they transported...

You know a government has veered hard to the right when the military looks liberal in comparison. This is exactly what is happening in Israel: senior military...

You may remember Save the Children’s 2014 viral video “Most Shocking Second a Day,” in which a young white girl in London goes from leading a normal,...

Australia’s government is showing “hostility and contempt” toward refugees, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al...

Britain’s Labour Party is embroiled in scandal, with various members, including leader, Jeremy Corbyn, accused of making anti-Semitic remarks. The ongoing...

Instayam. Social fleedia. Leoing. Do you have any idea what these words mean? Neither did I, until I looked them up in the latest edition of the Oxford...

A perfect storm is brewing in Europe's on-going refugee crisis. The cease-fire in Syria collapsed this past week, the brand-new government in Libya seems...

Street harassment is ubiquitous. Around the world, women are subject to cat calling, groping, and stalking. A Gallop poll from 2011 found that only 62% of...

Two weeks ago, the European Union paid off Turkey in a bid to unload unwanted refugees. Today, the first 500 asylum seekers are being deported from Greece to...

In December 1938, three weeks after Kristallnacht, 200 German Jewish child refugees arrived in Harwich, England. This was the first of many kindertransports...

Turkey has received its thirty pieces of silver in return for selling out the very refugees it claims to be saving. The contentious agreement to “end the...

Trevor Timm, the Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, published an op-ed with The Guardian on Saturday, March 12, outlining...

Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, appeared in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” last night, Sunday, March 6. When asked what Canadians do...

In 1963, Lawrence of Arabia swept the Oscars, taking home seven awards including Best Picture and Best Director. While it is certainly a cinematic masterpiece,...

In 2005, a Muslim girl from Harlem, Adama Bah, was arrested by the FBI under suspicion of “potential” terrorist activities. She was just...

Michiel Hofman, a Senior Humanitarian Specialist for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), published an op-ed with The Guardian on Sunday,...

"We’re here today to present the best of our country," the Iranian Consul General to Milan, a tall man with graying temples, murmured in Farsi into the...

On Thursday, February 4, world leaders from sixty countries met in London to raise funds for Syrian refugees fleeing the now five-year-old conflict. By the end...

Hundreds of masked men took to the streets of Stockholm on Friday, January 29, beating up refugees and foreigners and handing out leaflets threatening further...

If you have been trapped at home by Snowzilla this weekend and are currently counting all the ways you hate snow, this video will remind you of how much fun...

Following a string of sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve, the country has been fighting an internal battle about whether to continue...

As op-eds and think pieces on the New Year’s Eve violence in Cologne, Germany swirl around the Internet, a clear narrative has been building, namely, that...

This New Year's Eve, German Chancellor Angela Merkel dedicated her New Year Address to reminding Germans, and all of us who enjoy basic safety and security,...

Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, recently announced in a letter featured on The Daily Beast that it will be expanding its presence in America. Aluf Benn,...

The approximately 40,000 women and girls in Jordan's Za’atari refugee camp are living on a ten dollar a week stipend, forcing them to choose between food and...

Dr. Ben Carson, one of the frontrunners for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, visited the Zaatari and Azraq refugee camps in Jordan this weekend...

Over the weekend, Azedeh Moaveni, a journalist and author, published a breathtaking portrait of three women who escaped their lives as collaborators with ISIS...

In the wake of the Paris attacks, conservative leaders in the United States have taken the opportunity to push Islamophobic and anti-refugee rhetoric to try...

According to the European Commission, the recent influx of refugees into Europe, with the largest group fleeing the Syrian civil war, is expected to boost the...

An Israeli border officer threatened to “gas you all until you die,” while speaking to the residents of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. While the mentality...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has agreed to preliminary parliamentary and presidential elections in Syria at the urging of the Russian...

With thousands of Palestinians injured or killed by Israeli Defense Forces and settlers since the start of October, pro-Palestinian rallies have been held...

As the tide of refugees fleeing war and persecution continues to sweep across Europe, Americans are still debating what and how much assistance we should...

Taking advantage of the crisis in Syria, Israel has announced plans to expand settlements in the Golan Heights. Naftali Bennett, the leader of the right-wing...

David Miliband, the UK's former Shadow Foreign Secretary and current President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), published an op-ed with The...

Every day, we see new pictures and videos of thousands of Syrians making the arduous journey to take refuge in Europe. But so many are treated by media outlets...

On Saturday, September 12, British MP Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party. Representing the far left wing of the main liberal party, Corbyn...

In a press conference in Canberra this Sunday, September 6, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott proudly declared that Australia will be taking in more Syrian...

The picture of a desperate Syrian refugee, carrying his sleeping daughter in one arm while trying to sell pens on the streets of Beirut, went viral last week....

When most runners sign up for a marathon, completing their training is the biggest hurdle. For many who run the Palestine Marathon, though, the biggest...

In his final press conference on Wednesday, August 12, now retired Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno reminded Americans about a lesson hard-learned...

On Friday, August 7, the UN Security Council made a rare unanimous decision to authorize an investigative body to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks...

In the early hours of Friday, July 31, an eighteen month old infant died in an arson attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian home in Duma, a village in the...

“The most lethal declared chemical weapons possessed by the Syrian regime were destroyed by dedicated U.S. civilian and military professionals,” President...

A former German member of the Islamic State warned would-be recruits in a recent interview that when you join the organization, “you’re either dead or...

The number of refugees fleeing Syria since the start of the civil war has now surpassed 4 million, according to a July 9 press release from the UN High...

On June 27, Doyle McManus, the Washington columnist and former foreign correspondent in the Middle East for The Los Angeles Times, argued in an op-ed that the...

Samar Yazbek, an Alawite who opposed the Assad regime long before the Syrian uprising in 2011, has lived in exile in Paris since late 2011. While managing to...

At a meeting in Brussels on Friday, June 19, EU ministers approved plans to launch the first stage of a military intervention against refugee and migrant...

The Islamic State (IS or ISIS) has “trumped” the United States and its allies on social media, according to an internal U.S. State Department memo...

Following the shocking number of children killed during Operation Protective Edge, in July and August 2014, the United Nations is currently deciding whether it...

This past week, Illinois banned its five state pension funds from investing in companies that boycott Israel. The bill passed unanimously in both the Illinois...

Ross Douthat, an author and columnist for The New York Times, published an op-ed last week, arguing that the expected collapse of the Islamic State is not...

Sepp Blatter, the head of the international soccer association, FIFA, is facing calls for a vote  at FIFA's Congress on May 29 to officially expel Israel from...

Last November, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon established an internal, independent committee to examine fatalities, casualties, and damage done...

William Lacy Swing –  the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental body that has been aiding,...

An estimated 700 people are feared drowned after a refugee boat capsized off the coast of Libya late Saturday night, in what could be the worst disaster yet...

Valerie Amos, the United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, published an op-ed with The Washington...

The anti-Islamic movement “Reclaim Australia” held rallies in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and thirteen other sites across the country on Saturday, April...

Matthew Duss, the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and Michael A. Cohen, a fellow at the Century Foundation, published an op-ed in The...

While the West is using military resources to fight the Islamic State (IS), the secret to defeating the rampaging group may be economics. Although no one...

This month the Syrian crisis enters its fifth year. The armed conflict has created almost four million refugees who have fled the war-torn country. Six and a...

As Boko Haram, with thousands of fighters in Nigeria, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State this week, the tide of refugees crossing the Mediterranean into...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, March 3, has caused a stir since its announcement last month. Netanyahu...

The three British school girls who left home to join IS have now crossed into Syria, according to sources for The Telegraph. The three students from east...

“My Name is Rachel Corrie," the contentious play about a pro-Palestinian activist killed in 2003, will return to New York City this April for the first time...

Brian Knappenberger, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, published a short video “The Case against Torture” with The New York Times this past week just...

Holot, a detention center in the middle of the Negev in southern Israel, is an indefinite home for many of the more than 50,000 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants...

The parliaments of Portugal, Ireland, and France are the latest in the EU to urge their governments to officially recognize an independent Palestine.  They...

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, the preacher at the Grand Umayyad Mosque of Damascus until his exile in 2011, published an op-ed with The Washington Post last week...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem announced on Lebanese TV that two months of US-led air strikes have failed to weaken the Islamic State (IS). The...

Rachel Shabi, a journalist and the author of Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands, with Al Jazeera last week outlining the dangers of framing the...

British citizens suspected of being jihadists could be prevented from leaving or returning to the UK under a new bill. While visiting the Australian...

Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008 - 2014) and a judge at the International Criminal Court (2003 - 2008) published an...

Italy has formally announced the end of the Mare Nostrum, a year-long mission to search for and rescue migrants in peril at sea. According to Frontex’s...

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid believes that there is a “crisis” in American-Israeli relations. As quoted by the Jerusalem Post, Lapid stated:...

The Economist published an article this weekend arguing that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime has grown more fragile than he realizes: discontent is...

The United Kingdom’s House of Commons will debate a motion on Palestine’s right to self-determination on Monday, October 13, potentially paving the way for...

Sweden is likely to become the first long-term member of the European Union to officially recognize the state of Palestine, as suggested by a declaration made...

Ronnie Kasrils, a former South African Deputy Minister of Defence (1994 – 1999) and Minister for Intelligence Services (2004 – 2008), wrote an op-ed for Al...

Child marriage among Syrian refugees continues to increase at an alarming rate in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, leaving young girls vulnerable to abuse, health...

Marwan Bishara, a Senior Policy Analyst at Al Jazeera, published an op-ed on US President Obama’s Thursday speech announcing his strategy against ISIS....

Over the past week, #BurnISISFlagChallenge or #BurnISIS has gone viral in Lebanon. Modeled on the popular Ice Bucket Challenge, Burn ISIS consists of a series...

Steven A. Cook, the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, published an op-ed with The Washington Post...

In 2012, cartoonist Nina Paley created a short animated film This Land is Mine. Set to Andy Williams’s Exodus song, it details “a brief history of the land...

One of the most effective ways to protest Israel’s recent actions in Gaza is to hit its supporters where it hurts: their wallets. BDS – Boycott, Divest,...

Zeba Khan, a writer who has been featured on NPR, Newsweek, Reuters, and The Christian Science Monitor, wrote an op-ed for Al Jazeera about President Obama’s...

The Israeli military is reportedly using flechette shells, which spray thousands of potentially lethal tiny metal darts that shred flesh, in its offensive...

Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza in response to leaflets dropped and phone calls made by Israel warning them of major attacks to come. The...

Fiona Broom, a freelance journalist with a focus on legal, political, and multicultural issues relevant to Australia, published an op-ed with Al Jazeera about...

Khaled A. Beydoun, the Critical Race Studies Teaching Fellow at the UCLA School of Law, published an opinion piece on the history of Ramadan in America on Al...

Four Palestinians have now died in a 10 day Israeli offensive in the West Bank. Soldiers have been combing the occupied territories after three Israeli...

Nadine Ajaka, a journalist and photographer, recently explored Jordan’s video game industry and the challenges the burgeoning market faces. Called the...

Pope Francis, Shimon Peres, and Mahmoud Abbas convened at the Vatican for a prayer meeting where the Pope told the two presidents that they “must respond”...

Senior Turkish and Israeli government officials say the two countries are moving toward a deal that will result in reconciliation. Turkey and Israel were...

This weekend, Pope Francis did a whirlwind, three day tour of Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. Though he's taken many trips already, including to Brazil, this is...

Illegal immigration into the European Union is up from 72,500 in 2012 to 107,000 in 2013, according to Frontex’s annual risk analysis. The number is likely...

Four Palestinian refugees have been detained in Sri Lanka for more than two weeks according to The Palestinian League for Human Rights – Syria. The four...

Nadine Ajaka, a journalist and photographer, made a photo series for Al Jazeera on the destruction of traditional Bedouin culture in the face of growing...

A troupe of Belgian clowns is in Lebanon for a month, performing for Syrian, Palestinian, and Lebanese children in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. From...

Syria’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed Laham announced today that the country will hold presidential elections on June 3. "I call on the citizens of the...

The author, Ghada Karmi, is a Palestinian doctor, author, and academic. She writes frequently on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines,...

The Israeli Supreme Court will hear evidence about war crimes committed by senior Israeli officials on April 2. This case, the first of its kind in Israel,...

Chronic water scarcity, a surge in refugees, and a wasteful program have created a desperate need in Jordan. (Maps of the World) This article was published...

Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against the new law passed by the Knesset on Wednesday. (BBC) After years of debate, Israel’s Knesset passed new...

The United Nations Security Council has 15 members, each of which voted in favor of passing this resolution. (White House Photostream) After a long battle,...

Three years ago, the Arab Spring came to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. With regular Friday protests in cities across the kingdom and active opposition...

In an op-ed for Al Jazeera, Dr. Vacy Vlanza compares Australia and Israel's treatment of ‘native’ populations during their respective colonialist...

Milad Jokar, a political analyst specialising in the Middle East and Iran, is a frequent commentator on Middle Eastern affairs and has appeared on France 24,...

For anyone well versed in a critical history of modern Israel, Max Blumenthal’s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel brings a new perspective to a...

Nir Barkat, a multimillionaire venture capitalist, accepts a token salary of one shekel, or 28 cents, a year. (Israel Matzav) Jerusalem holds its city...

In a piercing critique of the Obama administration’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Josh Ruebner brings clarity to the challenges and pitfalls...

A Handicap International physical therapist helps a man with a gunshot wound to the leg (Handicap International). Claire Gordon of Aljazeera America...

The Lab was released in the United States this month. (Veterans Today) In the past decade, Israel has surged up the ranks of the world’s leading arms...