Seeing thousands of students protesting on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, located in the city of Berkeley, California, reminded us of the buildings we studied in forty years ago. California already harbored the most progressive segments of American society. It was a region that always stood up whenever the US created turmoil with imperialist intentions. We ...
By Mohammed Sabreen Hamas has accepted a ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar. But Israel says, it will continue to operate in Gaza despite Hamas’ response to the deal. So, the drama will go on for some times. It is a very sad saga, because an official familiar with Israeli thinking says Israeli officials are examining the cease-fire proposal ...
By Şafak Erdem Israel continues to attack Gaza. A critical phase of the offensive remains the Rafah border crossing and the Sinai Peninsula. Parallel to the developments in Rafah and Sinai, there rises some voices in Egypt questioning the Camp David agreement with some openly advocating to discard it. We asked Ramazan Bursa, an expert on Egypt, what Egypt’s attitude ...
By Dure Akram, Lahore, Pakistan Going by assumptions, many sitting outside Pakistan conclude it is “divided, disorganized, economically backward, corrupt, violent, unjust, often savagely oppressive towards the poor and women, and home to extremely dangerous forms of extremism and terrorism.” However convincing as it may seem, the international narrative does not consider the resilience of both nation and state to ...
Last week in Türkiye, the top agenda item was a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hamas leaders. The visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri to Türkiye, in connection with the hot agenda in the Middle East, was another agenda item. The credit agreement reached with the World Bank was also on the economic agenda. Meeting between Erdoğan ...
By Yiğit Saner The Kyiv regime is persecuting, denouncing, and linking Ukrainian Muslim religious scholars, citizens and institutions that criticize the genocide against the Palestinians to “Islamic terrorism”. The documents you are about to read expose the attitude of the Zelensky administration towards Muslims under American pressure and to curry favor with Israel. The internal correspondence of the Ukrainian State, ...
Political Scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated Iran’s attack on Israel for UWI. The full interview is available below. Will Iran stop here or not? Will Israel respond in some way? Let me start with some point that permit us to understand the impact and possible consequences of Iran’s operation. Firstly, Iran’s operation destroyed the belief that Israel is untouchable. Actually, ...
By Mohammed Sabreen Tehran established new rules with its first-ever attack on Israel, which suggests that the rules of the game in the Middle East have changed or are on their way to doing so. Perhaps the most prominent new feature is that the equation today has changed, and this new equation stipulates that any targeting of Iranian forces or ...
Türkiye banned some exports to Israel. The ban includes 54 products including cement, steel, aluminum and iron construction materials. The decision came just after Israel “blocked our attempt to airlift aid to starving Gazans”, as stated the Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan. The Turkish Minister of Trade, Ömer Bolat stated that Israel is preventing access to “the most basic food, ...
April 13, 2024 is a date that needs to be noted in history books – both in the chapter dealing with the Middle East / West Asia as well as in the one that summarizes the international system in general. On the night from April 12 to 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran has attacked the State of Israel. Here ...