In November this year, the Scottish port city of Glasgow was the host of...
In 2004, three years into the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, a...
“There is no such thing as race, none” – this is how master...
In a bold and defiant recent book, This Land Is Our Land: An...
Soon after my second Covid-19 shot, I received an email from a dear...
The idea of American democracy from its very inception, and as flagged by...
This year’s Black Lives Matter uprising in the US and the way it...
I sat down with Obama’s book, with a cup of my reassuring tea in tow,...
“They came, they uprooted, they burned, they killed, they plundered,...
Lebanon has been witnessing unprecedented demonstrations against the...
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton,...
Soon after Trump ordered the separation of immigrant children from their...
A resounding majority of UN member states has denounced the US’...
A gloomy early afternoon in mid-November New York, a heavily overcast...
Late in September, the admin of an academic list-serve sent a message to...
“There are no more villages left, none at all”. The accounts...
The gross spectacle of racist terrorists in August in Charlottesville,...
How to watch a master stylist filmmaker doing what he does best about a...
When you finally sit down to watch the film, you recall how Wonder Woman ...
For more than a decade and a half, Muslim countries from Afghanistan to...
What is an exhibition of Picasso and Giacometti doing in a fine arts...
The Muslim ban did not happen in one day - and it means more than one...
The Al Jazeera Investigations expose of how the Israel lobby seeks to...
Much of the public animus hyped against Trump, to be sure, is partisan....
On an ethereally sunny and surreal day in Doha, in the company of a dear...
I have now blissfully forgotten how many times I have visited Istanbul,...
Hours before the scheduled third and final debate between Donald Trump...
“Why Bourne is better than Bond” asked a recent article in...
What do we exactly do with such ‘iconic’ images? What did we...
“You are something to behold!” I called Abbas Kiarostami the...
In the United States presidential elections, there are two towering...
The appalling news of a young Italian graduate student being...
According to reports, Iran has detained 10 US sailors after two small...
United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama Doctrine that one might venture to call and...
"Media outlets have been reluctant," writes Brit Bennett for the New York Times, “to classify the Charleston shooting as terrorism, despite how eerily it echoes our country’s history of...
The mass murder of nine African Americans in a landmark church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, allegedly by a racist supremacist sporting a fleece decorated with the flags of Rhodesia and...
With Prince releasing ‘Baltimore’ song on Twitter, the massive civil unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore enters the fertile soil of popular culture in earnest – and thus announces the...
In mid April, I visited Phoenix, Arizona, to deliver a plenary keynote at a conference on ‘People’s Peace’, organised by the Center for Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. While...
A peculiar aspect of watching popular television series these days is that you can binge and watch them back to back with such time-lapsed eagerness that before you know it, their characters and...
What happens to an otherwise exquisite scholar with a stellar record of critical thinking when he is suddenly stricken with a rather late middle age crisis of wanderlust and turns into a belated...
There are scarce any Shakespearean passage more potent, more visceral, more laden with painful force than the lines delivered with dreaded precision by Shylock in ‘Merchant of Venice’. “I am a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was still in the air between Tel Aviv and Washington when his propaganda machinery was set fully in motion. A senior Israeli official travelling with him...
