Yazan al-Saadi

I find myself hesitating to jump into the vicious arguments over Muftah and a blog post it published called, “The Struggle over Narratives about Syria”...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs medical activities in Syria, its neighboring countries, and Europe, providing health services and...

The dual victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and ultra-rightwing parties in Israeli elections this past March should not have come as a surprise, though many,...

An attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a controversial French satirical magazine, and the mainstream discourse immediately rehashes the same concepts and...

On Monday September 22, 2014, a federal district court in Brooklyn, New York found Amman-based Arab Bank liable for providing material support to Hamas. The...

“We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors”. -      Sun Tzu After , the two main Palestinian...

(Photo credit: Reuters) “Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.” -  Isaiah 17:1 Syria is the most controversial,...

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox; whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a...

On June 22, 22-year-old Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf was declared winner of the Arab Idol TV show, becoming the first Palestinian ever to win since the...

Joe Sacco is a rare breed in his dual fields of cartoons and journalism. Over three decades, he successfully married the two to such a degree that he has been...

When it comes to confronting the Israeli government’s actions against the Palestinian people, a massive divide exists between Arab rulers and the general...

On November 2, 1917, the UK Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Baron Lionel Walter James de Rothschild, a major financier and Zionist...

During Israel’s eight-day brutal assault on the Gaza Strip in November 2012, one hundred sixty-two Palestinians, including more than a 100 civilians and 40...

Like most nation-states, Israel is built on a set of myths used to justify and legitimize its existence. In the case of the Zionist state the myths are a...

Fueled by a desire for liberty and dignity, the region’s various uprisings continue unabated. While each uprising faces its own set of challenges and...

Daniel Steiman’s response to my article on the One State Solution is rife with arguments and fallacies that pay lip serve to “a just and fair solution”...

It is neither outrageous nor controversial to say that the two-state solution is dead. The land supposedly allocated for a Palestinian state has become little...

During the early days of his first term, people in the West Asian and North African region had high expectations for U.S. President Barack Obama, believing he...

In Kuwait, the energy of the Arab Uprisings can be found in the country’s Bedoun community. A label derived from the Arabic word ‘without’, the Bedoun...

The drive for Palestinian self-determination has been split between two general tactics: armed resistance and diplomacy. The Palestinian Authority (PA) and...

“Since the Reagan administration, Dennis Ross has played a crucial role in crafting Middle East policies that never served peace, which is today farther away...

After the events on Wednesday November 16, 2011 in which Kuwaiti protestors stormed and occupied the Abdullah Al-Salem Hall at the National Assembly, many...

Much fanfare surrounded Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abba’s speech to the United Nations on September 23, 2011, during which, in unusually...

The Middle East Quartet is a self-appointed committee of representatives, composed of the United States (U.S.), the European Union (EU), the United Nations...

The toppling of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year sent shock waves throughout the world.  As the months have gone by since the...

In the lead up to the protests that have recently swept across the Arab world, those in the region, particularly in the Gulf, were in the grip of a major...

As protests continue to sweep across the region, large-scale demonstrations in the Shiite majority Gulf state of Bahrain represent a serious, direct challenge...

After the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Lebanon is considered one of the worst places in the Levant region for Palestinian refugees. For these refugees, who have...

Recent Al-Qaeda-related events out of Yemen have once again put security and counter-terrorism concerns at the forefront of Western strategies towards the...