RAMZY BAROUD January 30, 2023 The newly released Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation […]
OPINIONOPINION, Opinions Democracy in Israel would mean an end to apartheid. That is not what the Israeli protesters want. Published On 16 Jan 2023 Over the weekend, tens of thousands of […]
Jan 03,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and […]
OpinionIsrael Editorial The triumph of the far right, alarming enough in itself, could also see the destruction of judicial checks upon political power Wed 2 Nov 2022 In some ways, […]
RAMZY BAROUD October 31, 2022 Short Url Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s Israeli elections, the Palestinian parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve their […]
Aug 29,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby On a US Embassy-sponsored speaking tour in Yemen before its 1993 national elections, I met with the leaders of various political […]
BY MEHMET ÇELIK JUL 15, 2022 – DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL (Edited by Büşra Öztürk) Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turks embraced democracy as a system of governance. Heirs […]
Democracy President Kaïs Saïed is in the process of wiping out hard-won democratic rights in Tunisia. Little evidence survives of Switzerland’s efforts to support the country on its path to […]
GOVERNMENT POLITICS Tuesday, 17 May 2022 Reporter : Yusuf Wibisono Student action on behalf of the March 11 Student Movement demonstration at the Adipura Bojonegoro roundabout. Jakarta (beritajatim.com) – In the […]
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB April 22, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/jdwbw Rasmus Paludan, a politician in Sweden who has failed to gather enough signatures to run in parliamentary elections in September, […]
BY KLAUS JURGENS APR 12, 2022 – Daily Sabah Illustration by Erhan Yalvaç. In Europe, leaders must rediscover their potential as positive thinkers and motivators instead of allowing Islamophobic tendencies […]
KHALED ABOU ZAHR April 07, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/8jf79 If you were to ask a 1980s American movie scriptwriter how to represent a Frenchman, he would probably describe him wearing […]
Many in Algeria had hoped that the country would become a democracy after the toppling of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019. But the repression didn’t end with the new government. Now […]
From Taiwan to Libya to the US, global hotspots could proliferate in 2022, writes Borzou Daragahi 59 minutes ago… If it seems like the world is becoming more dangerous, that’s because it is. […]
December 27, 2021 Dr. Mohamed Chtatou By Dr. Mohamed Chtato Shûrâ, Or The Principle Of Collective Deliberation When one evokes the relation between Islam and democracy, (1) the temptation is great to […]
US President’s snub to the greater Middle East at “Summit for Democracy” further establishes his lagging interest Azhar Azam December 14, 2021 The writer is a private professional and writes […]
This content was published on December 10, 2021 By Rina Chandran and Avi Asher-Schapiro BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A landmark lawsuit by Rohingya refugees against Meta Platforms Inc, […]
Hamid Dabashi 27 September 2021 The permanent crisis of the neoliberal economy demands a far more versatile empire than one that gets bogged down in any single country US President […]
By Marcus Mietzner ANALYSIS SHARE Indonesia is now a prime candidate for long-term populist influence. The Australian Institute of International Affairs is pleased to award Marcus Mietzner the Boyer Prize […]
Direct Democracy Since 9/11, popular votes have increasingly been aimed against Islam, replacing the anti-Semitic and anti-communist slogans of the time before the terrorist attacks. Healthy democracies, however, have not […]