Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?
It is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.
Winter 2024
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Paradoxes of UNRWA
Dramatic recent cuts in U.S. funding to UNRWA, which provides essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees, illustrate the tensions embedded in the agency since its founding.
What Are We Waiting For?
Seven years after toppling a dictator, thousands of Tunisians are back in the streets—this time over IMF-backed austerity, and a sense that not enough has changed since 2011.
Destroying to Save
Recent victories against ISIS in Iraq and Syria have come at tremendous human cost. Such casualties are not inevitable—and those responsible must be taken to task.
A Day Out and a Union: Lebanon’s Domestic Workers Organize
In a country of 6 million, there are now 250,000 migrant domestic workers laboring under the oppressive kafala system. Can a new union help transform conditions not just in Lebanon, but across the Middle East?
Neither Master Nor Subject: Zionism, Empire, and the Balfour Declaration
It was just a three-sentence letter, written 100 years ago—and many claim it’s still shaping the Middle East. But we should be careful about what we read into the Balfour Declaration.
How the Forever War Brought Us Donald Trump
And why Trump will only continue it.
Why I Left Immigration Law
The U.S. immigration system demands penance from immigrants for the privilege of staying in the country and reinforces tired stereotypes about the global South. After four years, I could no longer be part of it.
Did Turkey’s Democracy Devour Itself?
Voters worldwide have been making some alarming decisions lately, but none have gone so far as to vote democracy itself out of existence. On Sunday, Turkey seems to have done just that.
The Petrostate Secretary
Rex Tillerson’s confirmation as Secretary of State threatens a return to a foreign policy driven by the pursuit of oil, whatever the human and environmental cost.
The Politics of Refugee Relief
As aid groups struggle to provide even basic services, refugees have turned to overt and contentious modes of resistance to shape their own lives. What do these protests tell us about our existing system of humanitarian response?
How War Lost Its Politics
Election years used to be occasions for pitched battles over whether to go to war. Why aren’t they still?
Turkey’s Cyclical Coups
Amid mass purges, arbitrary detention, and a top-down restructuring of state and society, the Turkish government’s response to July’s failed military takeover is starting to look a lot like earlier coups.
Gulf Dreams for Justice: From Rescue to Solidarity
The Gulf countries’ migrant labor regime is brutal. But calling it “slavery” obscures what is really a highly modern system of exploitation—and the struggles of workers themselves to change it.
The Beautification Bureau 
On the vacant, vertical concrete walls of Tehran, street artists fight for free expression, and with each other.
