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Shambhavi Siddhi On the mountainous outskirts of South Asia, far from the chaos of parliamentary sessions and the glare of prime-time news—unless it’s used to incite jingoistic violence and feed mainland India’s colonial fantasies—lies an unspoken record of lives interrupted. Kashmir, a region under
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Aidan Haj Qassem “Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in theMiddle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, youdamage it, and you serve the World Revolution.” -Ghassan Kanafani Imperialism has produced the conditions
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Mar Yousuf K, “Permission ˹to fight back˺ is ˹hereby˺ granted to those being fought, for they have been wronged.1 And Allah is truly Most Capable of helping them ˹prevail˺.” — Qur’ān 22:39 From Palestine to Kashmir, the same imperial blueprint repeats itself: violent occupation masquerades as ~ secu
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Ahmed Bin Qasim “It’s true that the world witnesses such phases when life becomes a purgatory, and when humanity is rendered into a walking crowd of corpses. But who is to be blamed for it? When mortal humans act as false gods over the destinies of (other) humans, and the opponents of principles and
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Musa Iqbal The fall of Syria’s Ba’ath government in late 2024 was a rapid succession of events that followed a prolonged, strenuous thirteen-year war. The collapse of the Syrian security forces, the breakdown of the government and its infrastructural arms, and of course, the rapid takeover of Hay’at
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Aidan Simardone Despite Trump’s promise to stop wars, the United States is bombarding Somalia. With America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and a ceasefire with Yemen, drone warfare now dominates in Somalia, with strikes doubling in the last year. Trump is often said to be pursuing an isolationist for
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Roya Pour Bagher The recent Israeli-imposed war on Iran shattered a long-sought U.S. propaganda narrative: the oppression of women in Iran. The earliest scenes that emerged from the war involved civilian casualties from Israeli strikes. Amongst those scenes, one stood out: a firefighter comforting a
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Samuel Dreessen In the course of its five millennia of history (dating from the establishment of the Elamite kingdom in what is now Khuzestan around 2700 BC), Iran, and historically Persia, has rarely been subject to a successful conquest by an external enemy. Many have indeed tried. Iran has been
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Hula Hilwiyat Born into luxury, radicalized by war, and then rebranded for Western consumption, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s trajectory reeks of opportunism. Born Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a in 1982 to an affluent Syrian family lavishing their riches in Saudi Arabia, he later returned to Damascus. His famil
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Mar Yousuf K. “Do not think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them until a Day when eyes will stare in horror.” — Qur’ān 14:42 Kashmir is not a territorial ambiguity or a diplomatic inconvenience; it is a living wound of empire, repression, and remembrance caught in the
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Suad Abdel Aziz There’s a word that keeps showing up whenever resistance movements in Africa and the Middle East are discussed: “Islamism.” It appears in headlines, policy briefings, and even activist spaces, almost always as shorthand for “extremist,” “undemocratic,” or “terrorism.” Hamas in Gaza.
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Bikrum Gill The war of aggression waged against the Islamic Republic of Iran constitutes a further expansion of the “regional dimensions” of the genocide conducted by the Zionist entity and its Western backers in Gaza over the past 20 months. In turn, the war of aggression has been resisted by what