Gaza, the birthplace of Palestinian nationalism, has a long history of resistance

A few days after the Syrian army took Qusayr, in early June, the influential Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi described his grim vision…

So François Hollande has won the second round of the French presidential election on 6 May — the most important ballot in France’s…

Patrick Seale’s 1965 classic, The Struggle for Syria, describes the battle for control of that country after the second world war (1). It was…

Dazzled by events in Tahrir Square, the media overlooked the role of the workers in Egypt’s revolution, whose 6 April movement was named…

During the Gaza war, South Africa expressed strong solidarity with the Palestinians. No one here has forgotten the collaboration between Pretoria and…

"While the enemy is still dangerous and more work remains, the American and Iraqi surges have achieved results few of us could…

There’s a substantial difference between declaring that the third world war has begun and identifying the new Hitler. Since 9/11 President George…

Post 9/11, the world was stupefied to discover that the Afghan ‘freedom fighters’, once lauded by President Ronald Reagan for their resistance…