Israeli airstrike in Qatar shattered assumptions of immunity and marked the first direct violation of the sovereignty of a Gulf Arab nation, raising questions over the durability of the Abraham Accords or normalization of ties between Arab states and Israel, and deepening fears of escalation
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel cites Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invocation of Amalek, biblical Israel’s rival nation, which has long been used to justify killing Palestinians
The British rule over India left behind more than partitioned borders. It entrenched the politics of division. From the census categories hardening identities to the stereotypes that demonise, colonial tools of control have been repurposed into modern-day conflicts. What began as a means to consolidate imperial rule survives in the form of fault lines. The Empire ended, but its divisions endure
European notions of “inferior races” underpinned genocidal practices—from Tasmania’s colonial massacre to the eugenic theories that laid the groundwork for the Holocaust, with Gaza reflecting longstanding colonial templates: the dehumanization, the framing of civilian lives as disposable, and the use of authoritarian control not an anomaly, but a continuation of historical patterns of racialized violence
Amid global anti-Muslim hysteria and the clash of civilizations narrative, the lived reality tells a different story: Hindus, Christians, and other minorities thrive in Muslim-majority societies like Indonesia and the Gulf, where Islamic traditions coexist with mutual respect, defining social and political life
China is reclaiming its over two millennia-long influence as a global center of trade, culture, and power after a period of decline under colonialism, thanks to economic growth, diplomacy, and strategic partnerships, positioning itself as a key shaper of the emerging world order
Centenarian Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister who returned to politics at 92 after retiring in 2003, transformed his country over his 22-year rule through pragmatic policies that spurred economic growth and development, transforming a commodity-based economy into a high-tech industrial hub
Reagan and economist Arthur Laffer used Ibn Khaldun’s ideas to build modern conservative tax policy, although the Islamic roots of supply-side economics and the influence of the Islamic Golden Age remains largely forgotten
Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Khaldun’s supply-side economic theory that tax cuts stimulate the economy and generate greater revenues influenced Ronald Reagan’s economic policies, and the Laffer Curve, which shaped modern conservative tax policy
The American strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities sparked a fresh sense of emergency that Iran has repeatedly found itself in, and contributed to the survival of the establishment that took power post-1979 revolution, with the same Western hegemony and interferences among the contributing factors
