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Category: West Asia

Soft Beds… Hard Battles

It had taken about five days to have a tattoo on her right hand… but the pain associated with that lingered! Faryal, the young Yazidi lady, recently said that she had […]

Purchasing Power!

The democratic nations across the globe are seemingly encountering a new form of addiction – Just Stay in Power! Rulers in those countries are trying hard to stay in power […]

Ankara Anchored: Serious About Syria?

Turkey’s Dangerous Games Trigger Idlib Catastrophe The meeting of the Russian, Iranian and Turkish presidents dedicated to the Syrian settlement was held in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi […]

A Non-Separatist Sephardic Imagine

She loves John Lennon’s famous song ‘…Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion, too…’ Like Lennon, she (too) wants to change her surroundings! She is trying to draw […]

The Ad Verse Effect

Well, it was on February 14, 1989 when the then Supreme Spiritual Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had vociferated a fatwa or proclaimed a Death Sentence against him, calling for […]

Pax Vobiscum!

It was Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, who had announced in December (2018) that 2019 would be officially proclaimed as the ‘Year of Tolerance’, […]

On Movements & Locomotion…

She could casually take strolls even three weeks ago… well, now, she cannot! However, she is not ready to suppress her plight. The 55-year-old Leyla Güven’s hunger strike entered its […]

Syrian Serial Turning Serious?

Teenager Leonora and her boyfriend Martin Lehm had left their homes four years ago, as the German couple planned to settle in Syria. The then 15-year-old Leonora thought that everything […]

On The Run, From Iran…

His own country had forced him, in a way, to leave his native land… and, his adopted country has honoured him with its top literary award. Most importantly, he wrote the book while […]