PERSPECTIVES

On February 29th 2020, history was made in a conditional peace agreement signed between the US and the Taliban. The deal was signed by...

Journalists in Yemen are being silenced, whilst the West holds its hands over its eyes. In 2019, Reporters Without Borders released a...

At what point does procedure descend into farce? For many Israelis, one would imagine that this threshold was met in abundance when the...

Sultan Qaboos bin Said ruled Oman from 1970 until his death in January 2020 at age 79, to be succeeded by one of his cousins, Haitham bin...

Earlier this month, the world woke up to the news that Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian Major General had been assassinated by a drone strike...

General Qasem Soleimani, a man who has killed Americans, both plotted a bombing in Washington DC and armed Hezbollah in Lebanon with...

Living in the West, it’s easy to forget pop culture’s naturally expansive and colonising force abroad. The origins of many western social...

The first Arab Spring began in 2011 due to civil unrest and ended in 2013 with either Arab governments quashing the protests with force,...

Since the turn of the century, the Iraqi public have certainly not enjoyed political stability. The decision of the United States and its...

A war is brewing in straits of Hormuz which could have major global implications on peace in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and the...