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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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November 28, 2017
Women and Women's Rights
Eliminating Violence Against Women
This week marks the United Nations' Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, when the United Nations, partner organizations, and governments around the world galvanize attention to gen…
November 14, 2017
Women and Women's Rights
How the Islamic State Benefits from Sexual Violence
Extremist groups benefit strategically and financially from the subjugation of women, says Nadia Murad Basee Taha, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking…
August 14, 2017
Israel
Is Zionism "Creepy"? The Question at the Heart of a Social-Media Controversy Deserves an Answer
A Palestinian-American activist's 2012 tweet unleashes a firestorm. But Zionism, good or bad, is not that weird.
August 10, 2015
Egypt
Whatever is the Matter With Egypt? Nothing All That New
My friend Hisham Melham, Al Arabiya’s Washington bureau chief, dean of the Beltway-based Arab press corps, farmer, and intellectual with few peers, wrote a piece that appeared over the weekend called…
August 26, 2013
Turkey
Turkey and Egypt: When Worlds Collide
Over this past weekend one of my Economist-devouring, Washington Post-reading, New York Times-gobbling buddies who does not work in the field of foreign affairs asked me, “Hey, what’s up with Erdogan…
