Ubai al-Aboudi

Ubai al-Aboudi is the Director of the Bisan Centre for Research and Development (Ramallah, Palestine).

October 5, 2026

After the Rajapaksa Collapse

The Rajapaksa dynasty personalised political success so completely that it also personalised failure. A return to the old formula is unlikely to address the conditions that changed Sri Lankan politics after 2022.

Judiciary/Sri Lanka

The Pardon That Vanished

The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri Lanka’s highest Buddhist authorities, retrospectively erase seven years

October 5, 2026

Former Minister Says India Failed to Develop Trincomalee After Taking Over in 1987

News/Sri Lanka

Former minister Champika Ranawaka has sharply criticised Sri Lanka’s handling of Trincomalee port and its growing strategic engagement with India, arguing that Colombo is

Sri Lanka Garment Export Earnings Fall 7.4% in August

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s garment export earnings fell 7.4% in August 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to export data released by

Living Hell: Israel’s Prison System as an Instrument of Oppression

February 26, 2026

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

In January 2026, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a grim update to its earlier work, titled Living Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps. This report documents the horrific

The Global Economic Benefit from the Genocide of Palestinians

August 3, 2025

Human Rights/World

On 16 June 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published a new report titled From Economy of Occupation to Economy