Matthew DeMaio @restoration48

In a recent article for the Intercept, journalist Alex Kane revisits the Israeli army's February 2016 killing of sixteen-year-old, Palestinian-American,...

On Wednesday, October 11, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit challenging Kansas’s new anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...

On Tuesday, October 4, Israeli police demolished the Negev village of al-Araqib for the 119th time since 2010. The village is home to around 220 Palestinian...

The United States’ crumbling infrastructure was a prominent theme in last year’s presidential election. As a candidate, Donald Trump often pointed to the...

Cultural appropriation has long plagued the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation. Such appropriation, which has hijacked Palestinian food, dance,...

At a conference on September 20, members of an Israeli far-right parliamentary faction, National Union, approved a proposal calling for the annexation of the...

On Tuesday morning, Israeli police evicted the Shamasna family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The family, who...

Last month, Jordan and Lebanon made international headlines by repealing laws that allowed rapists to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims. Campaigners...

On July 27th, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his decision to close Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem office and revoke its journalists’...

While it has been two years since piles of garbage filled Beirut’s streets, Lebanon’s garbage crisis is still ongoing. Instead of finding a lasting...

Earlier this year, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas instituted a series of punishing sanctions on the Gaza Strip aimed at weakening Hamas’s...

There are very few issues that regularly receive more popular attention than the Palestine-Israeli conflict. Even fewer elicit the same level of emotion when...

The shocking and swift defeat of the Arab states in the June 1967 War marked a turning point in the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the Palestinians, who had placed...

It has been a decade since Israel first enacted its inhumane siege of the Gaza Strip. Since then, Israel, Arab leaders, and Palestinian factions have all used...

On Monday, July 10, twenty-three-year-old Mohammad Ibrahim Jabril allegedly rammed a group of Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem with his car. According to the...

July 3, 2017 marks the fourth anniversary of the coup that brought down Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammad Morsi, and brought...

On June 22, reports by the Associated Press (AP) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed a network of eighteen secret prisons in Yemen operated by the United...

After years of deadlock, Lebanon is poised to hold its first parliamentary elections since 2009. Divided over a new electoral law and blaming regional...

On May 11, Israel’s security cabinet decided to cut the electricity that Israel supplies to Gaza by 40%. Gaza currently receives less than half of its daily...

Israel’s 2014 assault against the Gaza Strip was devastating for the besieged territory’s children. Of the over 2,000 people killed, more than 500 were...

A constant theme throughout U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East was the so-called threat from Iran. Indeed, the centerpiece of...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s first international trip has been billed as an opportunity to reset relations between the United States and its allies in the...

The last time Palestinians had the opportunity to participate in national elections was more than ten years ago: January 25, 2006. Back then, Israel had yet to...

Seeking to end its regional and international isolation, Hamas released a new political platform on May 1 that openly accepted a Palestinian state based on the...

On April 25, the Palestinian Authority (PA) informed the Israeli military administration for the occupied Palestinian territories that it would no longer pay...

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump consistently criticized then-President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, accusing him of destabilizing the Middle...

This week, over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners launched a mass hunger strike to protest rights violations by the Israeli prison system. Marwan Barghouti, a...

In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s missile strike against a Syrian military airbase, some decried the action for being taken against a so-called...

Last week, in Jordan, heads of states and representatives of the Arab League met for their 28th ordinary summit. Deeply divided on the future of Syria,...

Over the past two weeks, the U.S.-led coalition has perpetrated three massacres across Syria and Iraq. In al-Jina in northern Syria, a U.S. drone strike...

On Sunday, Walid Jumblatt, longtime leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party, publicly announced that he would step down from parliament after the...

This week, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants launched a glossy new campaign, aimed at encouraging individuals of Lebanese descent to apply...

On Sunday, Bahrain’s Parliament approved a constitutional amendment that permits civilians to be tried in military courts. Defended by the government as...

Since the beginning of January, a wave of anti-Semitic incidents has swept across the United States. These incidents have included the desecration of three...

As The New York Times reported last week, during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump made an unprecedented...

It has been six years since protesters took to the street across the Arab world, demanding human dignity and political and economic rights. Since then, only...

In December, I argued that Donald Trump was acting in a manor worryingly reminiscent of numerous Arab dictators. In particular, I noted the way he promoted...

This weekend, protests exploded in cities and at airports across the country against Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven...

While Jordan’s 2011 protests did not get the global attention neighboring Arab Spring revolts received, they were significant for the Hashemite Kingdom. King...

Since 2007, the occupied Palestinian territories have been under divided control. The Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) administers parts of the West...

In October 2016, Michel Aoun was elected president of Lebanon, ending a two and half year power vacuum. Aoun subsequently appointed his political rival, Saad...

On December 23, the UN Security Council reaffirmed that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have “no legal validity” and are a...

On December 23, the UN Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution critical of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. While the...

As a student of the Middle East, I cannot help seeing parallels between the actions of Donald Trump and those of the Arab autocrats I have studied. In...

After several weeks on the offensive, forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad are poised to take the entirety of East Aleppo from besieged rebel groups. The brutal...

On December 1, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” A companion bill was introduced in the House of Representatives a day...

Last week, the Lebanese army began building a concrete security wall around the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp. The Sidon-area camp is the largest in...

It is not just in the Kremlin or Damascus that Donald Trump’s election has been welcomed. Across Israel’s rightwing political establishment, the incoming...