Moktar is 21, a university student from a modest Tunisian family, and one of thousands of young people who feel that France has closed the door on their future. He lives with
A controversial case in Anuradhapura has drawn public attention after a temple incumbent accused of sexual harassment was released on bail by the Chief Magistrate. Siyapath Sasindu Wickramaratne ordered the suspect monk’s
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Is the Global South merely a relic of postcolonial discourse, or does it retain analytical potency? Are these nations passive victims of systemic inequities, or do domestic choices exacerbate their vulnerabilities? These
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by Durga Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Trump’s Ten Commandments arrives with the air of a field manual masquerading as analysis, a taxonomy of power distilled into ten stark “rules” that purport to decode Donald
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It is highly unlikely, unfortunately, that the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan will endure. This is due to two principal impediments. First, Israel is adamantly opposed to a cessation of the bombing
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Shariati and Fanon The intellectual relationship between Shariati and Frantz Fanon is one of the most fertile and least studied of the twentieth century. Shariati did not merely admire Fanon; he
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On April 6, 2026, unknown miscreants attacked Minhaj Uddin, an activist of the Bangladesh Jatioatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in the Dighi Par area of
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In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. The Senator, later President, said: “The Soviet Union
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For sixteen years, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won every fight: four consecutive parliamentary supermajorities for his party, Fidesz; a constitution rewritten to his specifications; courts, media, and oligarchs brought to heel.
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“For those who believe, no proof is necessary; for those who do not believe, no proof is enough.” ~ Attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas The Revelation This essay is not meant to
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After nearly 40 days of intense conflict in the Middle East, the guns have at least been silent for two weeks, but this silence hangs by a single thread that can snap
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History cannot be erased! Constitutional betrayal will not go unpunished, and reckoning in Bangladesh is inevitable! In the annals of nations, there are moments when power seeks not merely to govern but
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The recent ceasefire announcement and its immediate implementation have been widely viewed as an important diplomatic development for Pakistan. In a region where tensions can rise quickly and where mistrust often shapes
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I sat glued to my screen through the long, tense night of April 8, 2026, in Peshawar, watching history unfold in real time. The world held its breath as a U.S. deadline
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A dramatic confrontation at the United Nations Security Council has underscored the growing risk of a wider international crisis, as Russia and China vetoed a resolution condemning Iran’s closure of the Strait
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The streets of south Tel Aviv still carry the visible scars of war. Shattered glass litters sidewalks, broken shutters hang from aging buildings, and entire sections of neighborhoods remain damaged after a
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