In Yemen, war's costs have too often landed on civilians who bear no responsibility for the war nor for the wrongs committed during it.
"We need to see women working on the ground get involved if we want peace."
Until this stalemate is resolved, Yemenis will needlessly suffer—"held hostage to negotiations where warring parties want to score points against...
The international community has for years passively dealt with the Syrian crisis as if it were a natural disaster, and...
Yemen must be liberated from its dependence on outside powers, whether in Sana'a from Iran, or in Aden from Saudi...
Yemenis agree on the need to end the war in Yemen, but they do not agree on how to end...
Activists and dissidents throughout the Middle East and North Africa remain within reach of the very states they have been...
It is hard to overstate how vulnerable Egypt's marginalized LGBTQ+ community is.
American administrations have regularly endorsed the two-state solution, while also insisting there must be no consequences for Israeli actions that...
Iran's parliament is pursuing two pieces of legislation that boil down to a government fiat that Iranians shouldn't have public...
Aspirations for democratic change in Bahrain have not been completely crushed despite more than a decade of brutal rule since...
A year ago, Kuwait's Constitutional Court overturned an anti-transgender law that criminalized "imitating the opposite sex." But it was not...
Why is the underlying goal propelling the far-right overhaul of Israel's entire system of governance—unilaterally annexing the occupied territories—so absent...
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