The Political Advantage of Islamophobia
Saad Omar Khan The imagery in Donald Trump’s latest campaign commercial speaks for itself: a horde of people at an airport passport control line dissolving into a picture of armed […]
Category Archives: Middle East
Why the West’s Syrian refugee crisis is unresolvable
Saad Omar Khan In the early morning of September 2, 2015, Alan Kurdi—a three-year old Syrian Kurd—boarded a flimsy inflatable raft with his parents and brother on a voyage from […]
Opinion: Bill 94, A By-Product of American Orientalist Discourse
Shane Senécal-Tremblay Advanced by former Quebec Premier Jean Charest in 2010, Bill 94 is a controversial piece of legislation that effectively revokes fundamental freedoms and rights from those women whose […]
Water Distribution in the West Bank: A System Frozen in Time
Naama Baumgarten-Sharon On February 12, 2014, European Parliament President Martin Schultz addressed the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), quoting a claim that the average Israeli used four times more water than the […]
