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How did 9/11 and the War on Terror change Kenya’s trajectory?
On the evening of September 11, 2001, I was returning home from work, dreading the uncomfortable ride in the crowded,…
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#PalestinianPrisoners: This is not the time to despair
The story of the six Palestinian political prisoners should inspire hope and action, not throw us into despair. For four…
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It is time to stop playing Jenga with US foreign policy
“A terrible time for our country … I don’t know what you call it – a military defeat or a…
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The West is getting Afghanistan wrong – again
The dust has settled on a chaotic United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. It began with faulty predictions of the Afghan…
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9/11 should have led to a criminal investigation, not a war
The politics of fear, with its foundation in lies, is an effective way of manipulating any electorate. Perhaps it has…
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The ‘war on terror’ and the disciplining of American Muslims
Earlier this month, The New York Times Magazine published a feature article profiling a former FBI agent who was imprisoned…
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India’s deepening love affair with Israel
The revelation that Pegasus – spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO – was used to surveil opposition politicians, activists,…
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The US-Saudi ‘special’ relationship 20 years after 9/11
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, a number of developments have refocused attention on US-Saudi relations.…
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How 9/11 helped China wage its own false ‘war on terror’
Over the past two decades, the crisis in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has drastically worsened. This has much to…
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What to make of the Taliban’s ‘exclusive’ caretaker government
By excluding women, the Hazara minority and the political opposition from the new administration, the Taliban has shown that it…
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The Mafia and Israel’s child killers
It is easy to kill and get away with killing. A former hitman I got to know well while writing…
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Palestine: An open-air museum of colonialism
On a recent visit to Palestine (I belong to a category of Jordanian Palestinians who can visit Palestine using an…
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There is an urgent need for a moratorium on sale of spy tech
In July 2021, an investigation by a consortium of media outlets revealed that several governments used phone malware supplied by…
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‘Radicalisation’ and the assumption of Muslim manipulability
In an insightful piece for Harper’s Magazine, Joseph Bernstein, a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News, questions the idea that disinformation…
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Getting jabbed in New York: Vaccines for a sick system?
It was not my intention to get vaccinated against coronavirus in the United States of America. Though I was born…
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9/11: Remembering the irredeemable
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I woke up habitually early. I started reading and writing while still in bed, blissfully…
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Europe is politicising Afghan refugees instead of helping them
After decades of wars and Western occupations, Afghanistan today is a devastated country. Given the active role European countries have…
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Don’t sacrifice human rights in the name of development
For years in the Kazakh village of Sarykamys, people would go to sleep in their beds and never wake up…
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We now feel the consequences of marginalising the Taliban
As the world is coming to grips with the sudden change of regime in Afghanistan, it is important to reflect…
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