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I’ve been deeply distressed by the growing political backlash to the restrictions that many states and local governments have put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Most troubling is the extent to w […]

Residents in Minneapolis are angry and outrage to a viral video showing police officer on top of a black man with his knee on the man’s neck as he pleads “I can’t breathe.” George Floyd later died

I have de […]

Eighteen years before Minneapolis police killed an unarmed black man named George Floyd on Monday, Minneapolis police killed an unarmed black man named Christopher Burns. Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar decries […]

Last week the Middle East Institute released our new book, “The Tumultuous Decade.” It presents the findings of a decade of Zogby Research Services’ (ZRS) polling across the Middle East and North Africa. Becau […]

SADC states have been urged to support Mozambique’s fight against terrorists and armed groups attacking civilians and infrastructure in Cabo Delgado Province in the north-east of the country. In a communiqué af […]

Forces allied with Libya’s UN-supported government have wrested control of a key military base on the outskirts of the country’s capital from Khalifa Haftar, dealing a significant blow to the renegade general. In […]

Journalists aren’t supposed to “bury the lead.” But when death is the topic and corporate power is the culprit, the connection routinely goes unmentioned.

Class war — waged methodically from the top down — is […]

The abusive behavior of a woman with a police officer on the motorway is highly objectionable. The woman threatened that she was the wife of a colonel and can fix this police officer. She then forcefully run away […]

On April 16 two Hindu ascetics and their driver were lynched to death near Gadchinchle village in Maharashtra’s Palghar district in India. As it always happens these days with Hindutvadi fascists running India, t […]

The failure of the Sindh government, the lack of necessities for the people, the indifference, shameful apology, and stubbornness of every high-ranking personality in the government over the horrific deaths of […]

As many parts of the world express solidarity with Palestine’s struggle to liberate themselves and their land from Zionism’s settler-colonial project, we acknowledge the profound wisdom and foresight of Iran’s […]

On May 20th, the Middle East Institute will release my new book “The Tumultuous Decade,” a book that brings together a decade of Zogby Research Services (ZRS) of Arab, Turkish, and Iranian public opinion. What fol […]

۞ فَلْيُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ يَشْرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا بِالْآخِرَةِ ۚ وَمَن يُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَيُقْتَلْ أَوْ يَغْلِبْ فَسَوْفَ نُؤْتِيهِ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا
4:74 – Let those, wh […]

During the five weeks since Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, many fervent supporters have entered a “WTF?” space. The realities of disappointment and distress aren’t just about dashed hopes of winning the p […]

The political power wielded by Muslim voters in 2016 elections could be an instrumental force in placing Muslim issues at the forefront of the Democratic Party platform. The impact of the Muslim vote will be an […]

“And all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again.”

I am following worldwide commentary about my country’s disastrous handling of the Coronavirus pandemic wi […]

In a matter of three months, the world has been transformed. The health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic has been nothing short of catastrophic. In an effort to contain the spread of the pandemic, […]

Khalifa Haftar’s forces carried out artillery shelling using over 80 rockets against the Mitiga Airport in Tripoli and surrounding areas of Soqu Al-Jumua and Bab Benghashir. The forces’ rocket attacks on Mit […]

The Presumptive Nominee seems to be in trouble. Reuters just released a national poll showing that “Joe Biden’s advantage over President Donald Trump in popular support has eroded in recent weeks” — and the co […]

The spread of the Coronavirus which started in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has since spread across the world has indeed caught many countries in a state of unpreparedness. One of the countries that have been […]