War

Karin meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East

The Afghan people are trapped in a limbo between two styles of governance that do not fit in with their society: a Western-style democracy and a Wahhabist Taleban emirate. They believe in the ideals of freedom, equality, and national pride, but they need to be empowered to build a system that embodies these ideas in a uniquely Afghan way.

Fereydoun was born in an irreligious and rich family with no idea about religion. Up to the time he entered high school he was not much involved in politics at all. Being a teenager and the identity conflict of that age made him more interested in human sciences as well as religion.
When he entered university [...]

10 years ago today, Middle East Youth would have probably been backing up all their information on paper with the fear of the Y2K lingering. As we dawned on the Y2K era we were scared – very scared. We thought that if computers could survive it, then we’ll live happily ever after.
Looking back at the [...]

Iranian troops have occupied an oil well in Iraq. Zhaf Nazhmi, a general of the Iraqi border forces, said on Friday before the press in Baghdad: “Iranian troops keep the source point 4 of the oil field east Missan since yesterday (Thursday) morning reception.” In media was that the Iranians would have hoisted [...]

After the last explosions in Baghdad on the 8th of December where two cars exploded in Baghdad and killed more than 127 person with about 330 wounded, I did not find any energy to write or comment. I just posted the story on my Facebook, a prayer that God, Allah, or any mighty force up [...]

There is really nothing more to say. What else could be added… ?? This is simply reality… It has happened, and can happen anytime in the Occupied West Bank – or (no more these days, though…) at Erez Checkpoint to Gaza.
But I think that nowadays private cars wouldn’t even get THAT close to the [...]

We know that we live today in a very violent world, where death from war and terror is a common feature of our daily life – we see it in our cities, attacking our friends and loved ones, or we may be far away and watched it on TV. We are in some way all [...]

I have been out of the posts for a while for many reasons but I wanted to chime in with respect to something that has been weighing on my mind for some time. As a witness to the current events unfolding in Waziristan I cannot help but think that there must be a more holistic [...]

Last May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of information about the book, my mind was bogged down with deadlines, endless papers and [...]