Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.

I analyze and write about US Palestinian relations, among other things

On Monday, a jury convicted a Vermont man of shooting three Palestinian college students in November 2023.

By claiming compliance with human rights law, even as leaders vocally flout them, El Salvador’s shows those laws matter.

Almost a decade ago I wrote an article describing Israel’s “matrix of control” over the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It consisted then of three interlocking systems: military administration of mu...

Yemeni migrant workers abroad send billions of dollars to Yemen every year, making remittances one of the country’s largest and most consistent sources of foreign currency. The primary corridor runs…

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September 13, 2026 @ 5PM EST, Busboys and Poets 14th and V

On a balmy April night in Amman’s Jabal Al-Weibdeh, a DJ was perched on the roof of Zawyeh Space, leaning over a battered mixer as a small crowd of mostly twenty-somethings chatted under the sky. A…

September 13, 2026 @ 5PM EST, Busboys and Poets 14th and V

The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.