Book Club: 'Making Aid Work' provides a sharp, field-driven look at how outdated Western aid models helped entrench authoritarianism in the Middle East
Dick Cheney turned torture into doctrine & war into profit for the US. The Middle East still bears the scars of his brutal legacy, writes Hossam el-Hamalawy.
Book Club: Phoebe Greenwood's 'Vulture' exposes Gaza war reporting, showing journalists' moral compromises, the cost of witnessing and ethics of storytelling
Trump’s use of troops to crush protests isn’t new, but state deployment of the military for domestic control has surged since WWII, writes Hossam el-Hamalawy.
Book Club: 'Pacification' by Mark Neocleous challenges the notion of peace, showing it as a fragile cover for the modern state’s endless wars on its own people
By attacking protesters & silencing Palestine solidarity, Egypt's embassies have shown they are extensions of the security state, writes Hossam el-Hamalawy.
