As Trump threatens to turn the army on peaceful demonstrators, Syrian activist and author Leila Al-Shami writes what Americans might learn from Syria’s nine-plus years of revolutionary struggle.

The disappearance and possible murder of the Saudi Arabian writer has struck such a nerve because, for a change, Westerners are able to see themselves in the victim’s shoes.

A new biography lays bare the extremist ideology that drives Benjamin Netanyahu, an early champion of the demagoguery that has now brought us his old friend, Donald Trump.

[Editor’s note: The below is the foreword to a new book, The Holocausts We All Deny: Collective Trauma in the World Today, by Theo Horesh. The foreword was also published in Arabic on 1 August, 2018] Genocide is rare, or that is what we tend to believe. We think we can tally the number since the beginning of the twentieth century: if not four—the ones…

[Editor’s note: This editorial was originally published in Arabic on 11 December, 2017] The story is not the Donald Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and the accompanying disdain for the Palestinian people, and their connection to the city that takes center stage in contemporary Palestinian nationalism, and in Islamic and Christian sentiment. This is not the story, for a predisposition toward this…

The former US ambassador to Syria talks Raqqa, Russia, reconstruction, and more in this half-hour Al-Jumhuriya podcast.