Seventy years ago today, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) introduced a detailed proposal to the UN General Assembly for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state, approved less than three months later by a vote

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On Feb. 6, 1935, Turkish women were allowed to vote in national elections for the first time, and eighteen female candidates were elected to parliament – a decade or more before women even in Western countries such as France, Italy and Belgium. Eight

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Front page headline in Roznama Dunya: “America threatens attacks in Pakistan”

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This paper reviews Pakistani leaders’ reactions to the U.S. President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policy speech. On August 21, 2017, Trump delivered a speech outlining the new U.S. s…

A Jamaatud Dawa poster announcing the establishment of the Milli Muslim League.

This paper examines the new, emerging long-term nuclear security threat to India from Pakistan. On August 3, 2017, the Pakistani jihadi organization Jamaatud Dawa announced its intention to establ…

Roznama Ummat cover page reads: “Hanging of Mumtaz Qadri sank Nawaz Sharif.”

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Pakistan marks its Independence Day on August 14. Each year, it is also a day to discuss Pakistan’s identity and its future. The liberal argument is that Pakistan was founded as a st…

Kashmiris protest against the U.S. designation of Hizbul Mujahideen as an FTO (image: Dawn.com).

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On August 16, 2017, the U.S. designated the Pakistan-based Kashmiri jihadi group Hizbul Mujahideen a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The U.S. State Departme…

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The attacks carried out in the name of Islam by terror organizations such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda, both in Arab countries and worldwide, have prompted recurring discussion about whether and how the school curricula in the Arab world have contribu…

With the new issue of Middle East Quarterly set to formally launch September 5, we're placing the content online now to give readers an advance look at the articles. The Vatican Joins the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Throughout most of Israel's history,

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This past summer, Fatah held summer camps for children and youth, each lasting several days, in cooperation with various Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatuses. Some of these camps were held in bases of the PA’s National Security Forces (NSF) in the West Bank, and were m…

This summer, bodies connected to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the PLO, and Fatah, in cooperation with the PA National Security Forces (NSF), ran summer camps for Palestinian children and teens. Especially noticeable were the Pioneers of Tomorrow camps, launched by the Higher C…

This important contribution to genocide studies documents how the world's oldest Christian communities—variously referred to as Chaldeans, Syriacs, and Arameans, but best known as Assyrians—were, along with the Armenians, "the victims of the [Ottoman]

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Based on deep analysis of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) documents discovered in Israeli archives and his own interviews with CID personnel, Harouvi's examination shows how the CID of the Palestine police force evolved from an organization

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The Great Reversal: The U.S. vs. Iran – From Might And Deterrence To Weakness And Retreat

Within three months, the U.S.’s position in the Middle East has changed from one of might and deterrence against Iran to one of weakness, retreat, and being deterred by Iran. This situat…

Law and Legality ranges wide and deep, covering a broad range of topics in the socio-legal history of the Ottoman Empire from the fifteenth to early twentieth centuries. Though its title is misleading as only one essay addresses topics pertaining to the

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Muslim women flash victory signs after the Supreme Court verdict (Image: IndianExpress.com)

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On August 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark verdict invalidating the practice of instant triple talaq (divorce) among Indian Muslims. The verdict…

On August 1, 2017, following a heated debate and as part of a series of legal amendments, the Jordanian parliament revoked Article 308 of the Penal Code that allowed rapists to avoid punishment if they married their victims. This places Jordan alongside several other Arab countri…

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Almost half of English people more suspicious of Muslims as a result of recent terror attacks, study finds ‘Worrying’ report shows a quarter of English people believe Islam is a ‘dangerous’ religion, but overall England is becoming more tolerant and open May Bulman, @maybulman The Independent Online Members of the Muslim community…

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‘They were cheering like it was a beach party’: Wife of jailed Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes shares horrific footage of him during flogging that nearly killed him and reveals she hasn’t heard from him in TWO YEARS Raif Badawi, 33, was arrested in 2012 after blogging about freedom of speech Saudi religious court … Continue reading →

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Following the passage of legislation in the U.S. Senate suspending aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) because of the PA’s extensive support for Palestinian prisoners and the families of Palestinian “martyrs” and wounded, it is being claimed in the PA that the p…