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Egypt is in the midst of the biggest crisis since the revolution toppled Mubarak in 2011. Last month somewhere between 12 and 20 million Egyptians took to the streets demanding the removal of the Islamist President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who came to power...
The film tells the story of South African Heidi Grunebaum's journey of discovery about the true nature of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The journey is activated by Heidi's study of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) during...
Interview with Gilbert Achcar, academic, writer, and activist, Professor at the Development Studies Department at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London (SOAS). Amandla!: What would you say to those who argue that the Syrian uprising may be an opening...
Why is Jerusalem a problem? For millennia, Jerusalem has seen three major religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – settle in this area, the centre of the 'Holy Land'. Issues abound but all revolve around the historical settlement patterns for these religious and...
Why is Jerusalem a problem? For millennia, Jerusalem has seen three major religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – settle in this area, the centre of the 'Holy Land'. Issues abound but all revolve around the historical settlement patterns for these religious and...
A Freedom of Information request with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) by Al-Shabaka has led to the release of new documents on Gaza's gas fields, and surprising new information about the possibility of oil fields in the West Bank. The released documents...
An Israeli judge ruled Tuesday morning that the State of Israel is not to blame for the death of Rachel Corrie, an American who was killed on March 16, 2003 in the Gaza Strip when she she stood in front of an IDF bulldozer that crushed her. The judge called her death...
Syria's tragedy began 10 years before she was born. Her parents were driven from their home in Haifa – in that part of Palestine that became Israel – and fled to Lebanon in 1948, then to Syria in 1982. "God bless his soul, our Dad called me Syria and another sister he...
The short Syrian Spring of 2011 has long since morphed into something close to full-scale civil war. If the conflict escalates further, it will have ramifications far beyond the country itself. As the former UN secretary-general and current UN and Arab League envoy...