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The Talmud contends that “Whosoever saves a single life is as if he had saved the whole world; whosoever destroys a single…
M. Reza Behnam
Dr. M. Reza Behnam is a political scientist who specializes in comparative politics, with a focus on West Asia.
As the world watches, one of history’s greatest crimes has taken form. Inaction, complicity and silence in the face of genocide have…
Two hundred forty nine years ago, at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was the prose of a newly arrived immigrant…
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”Voltaire, Enlightenment author and philosopher (1694-1778) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution,…
In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of…
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. Bob Marley, Jamaican composer…
To begin to correct the injustices that generations of Palestinians have faced, and to become “a society that can live with its…
For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history. It was also historically pivotal for…
Palestinians for decades have stood their ground and against all odds have continued to live where they rightfully belong: their ancestral homeland. …
The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause and exchange of prisoners in Gaza that began on 19 January. Meanwhile,…