Unfiltered

Syria’s post-Assad leadership is failing its people, igniting protests over poverty & inequality. Joseph Daher reflects on a year under Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Mohamed Elshahed explains why Melanie Phillips can publicly declare the West is ‘facing a death cult in the forces of Islam’ and receive no pushback.

A looming US-run Gaza signals shrinking Palestinian self-determination and troubling parallels to Iraq’s occupation, writes Shahd Hammouri.

The cancellation of a Palestine symposium at the Collège de France exposes growing attacks on free speech & academic freedom in France, writes Hèla Yousfi.

By appointing Khaled El-Enany as head, UNESCO proves heritage has become spectacle & soft power for the institution, argues Mohamed Elshahed.

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.

Calls to replace ‘Palestinian prisoners’ with the term ‘hostages’ erase the collective struggle & create a false equivalence between coloniser and colonised.

Wrapped in the ‘liberal buffer zone’, Germany’s Goethe-Institut has washed its hands of genocide, echoing the Israeli line at every turn, says Eleonora Pennini.

From Gaza to Kabul, Qatar works quietly to broker peace. How did it become so pivotal, and why now mediate between the US and Venezuela, asks Tanner Manley.

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.