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Excuse My French: Un été à Genève
Thanks to a wondrous man named Erasmus, I will be spending my summer in Geneva this year. While everyone back home will be a slave to the Queen Mary examination […]
The UN’s indictment of Israel damages the Israel-Palestine peace process
The UN’s absurd indictment of Israel is a detriment to the Israel-Palestine peace process The 23rd of December gave light to the pernicious United Nation’s Security Council Resolution 2334. The […]
To Peace, or Not to Peace?
In 1995, Hoolbroke described Yugoslavia as the ‘greatest collective security failure of the West since the 1930s.’ Jasmin Mujanovic, professor at York University questioned if Syria had displaced it? After […]
The Changing Face of War
Warfare is changing. War is an institution which is inscribed in law. From the conclusion of the Cold War, the world is undoubtedly different. Several stark features highlight the differences […]
Syria – Searching for a Pyrrhic Victory
After almost six years since civil war broke out, Syria is still a place of violence and great conflict. In early 2011, protests broke out in the capital city of […]
To Criticise is to Victimise: Anti-Semitism and its Relationship with Israel
Every form of discrimination and intolerance is just as detestable and insipid as the last. Anti –Semitism is no exception. It is because this kind of discrimination is so despicable […]
The Deafening Silence: Has Saudi Arabia Gone Too Far?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is perhaps ‘the most violent and abusive of all autocracies,’ because of its dependence on violence and oppression against the human rights of its population. According to Ali al-Ahmed from the Institute […]