Behind this “Germansplaining” lies a naked power relation – not brotherhood, not equality, not knowledge, and not respect. It has deprived many of us writers of the ability to openly voice our opinion in Germany of the present situation in Gaza.

So, at long last, Iran has responded. Days of escalating tensions, regional warnings, and declarations of emergency across neighboring countries culminated in a retaliation: Tehran deployed explosive-laden suicide drones at Israel and launched surface-to-surface missiles from within Iranian territory, in response to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. The strike was a slowly developing event and was highly publicized during the…

Adania Shibli and Specters of the Disaster on Literature and the Body

[Editor’s note: This article is one of two published by Al-Jumhuriya English today on the “crisis of Islam;” the second is a rejoinder by Abdul-Wahab Kayyali, titled, “On the crisis of Islam: Muslims and the question of equality.” An Arabic version of this article may be read here, while a French version was published in Le Monde.]   The murder last month of the French…

Recent “peace” deals between Israel and Gulf Arab states herald not a more just and harmonious region, but a more militarized, securitized, and repressive one, argue Orwa Ajjoub and Rahaf Aldoughli.

This narrative is an integral part of a larger story: one of Syrian men and women, many of whom lost their lives as a result of imprisonment.

After a high blood pressure diagnosis, Al-Jumhuriya’s English editor did the unthinkable: he stopped drinking coffee. What followed was weeks of physical, mental, even spiritual torment.

A recent book explores the conditions under which Palestinians and Israelis might be able to reconcile. The challenges are immense, but worth studying, writes Elia J. Ayoub.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

Just as Oedipus, an immigrant of Phoenician descent, had to solve the Sphinx’s riddle to save his besieged people, so Syrians today—and, in fact, all of us—face a new set of perplexing, life-or-death questions.

When discussing the fable known as the “October War of Liberation,” the Syrian regime, in its rhetoric and propaganda, invariably leaves out a matter of utmost importance; namely that its “valiant army” (as it calls it) failed to liberate most of the Syrian territory occupied by Israel during the June 1967 War. After the October 1973 war, six villages inhabited by Syrians, located in the far…

The problems of solidarity recently outlined by Yassin al-Haj Saleh are indeed part of a wider, historic breakdown in the values and impact of the Western left, writes Jules Etjim, who offers a “sketch” of one possible way forward.

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.

Seeing Beirut slide into war in 2006 transformed the late TV presenter, moving him to humanize peoples—in the Middle East and beyond—whose voices were rarely heard in the US mainstream.