Maverick in the White House
The world holds its breath as Donald Trump is installed this week as the most controversial president in American history. Unprecedented uncertainty grips Washington as questions are raised if he…
Beyond dreams
An op-ed article, advising President Barack Obama to accord recognition to Palestine before he left office, appeared out of the blue some days ago in the New York Times. Authored…
Kashmir forsaken
Over 30 years ago, prime minister Indira Gandhi called off talks with Pakistan on a no-war pact because Pakistan’s representative to the UN Human Rights Commission, Agha Hilaly, had compared…
Policy imperatives on Kashmir
The recent uprising in Indian-Held Kashmir did stimulate an assertive response in Pakistan on Kashmir but it is largely based on political and diplomatic activism and not on the sound…
The power of disruptive ideas
Disruption is a notion that has transformed the conventional philosophical wisdom of linearity of critical discourses of modernity. The linear and non-cyclical progression of human consciousness in a Hegelian framework…
Facebook executives feel the heat of content controversies
After Facebook's removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network's executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication. But the image - showing…
Betrayed by the world
Back in May 2011, it took me a miracle to leave Gaza through the Rafah Crossing in order to join the Young Leaders Visitors Programme in Sweden. Among the many…
Gaza concerns
On December 14, 1998, we had a day off at school. As an eight-year-old child, I couldn’t be happier. All the shops were closed and there were roadblocks everywhere. The…
Palestinians elect new ‘president’ in reality show
The sound of gunshots and explosions is heard the moment the new "president" steps onto the platform to address a crowd in the West Bank. His guards quickly scramble to…
Deadlock unbroken
It would be a grave mistake to consider the fact of five public figures from New Delhi going to Srinagar on Oct 25 to talk to the Hurriyat leaders, as…
