Edward Said

It is difficult to dismiss Benjamin Netanyahu when he takes the podium and boasts that Israel is reshaping the Middle East to its liking. It is equally unfair not to consider that the crises in this region are now under U.S. management, without partners from competing international powers—some providing political influence in crisis management, such […]

In June 1996, Yedioth Ahronoth published a lengthy biography of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He had just risen to political prominence after being elected head of the Likud party in 1993, becoming the leader of the opposition. In the 1996 elections, he defeated Shimon Peres, becoming the first Israeli prime minister elected directly by […]

Historically, research in Kurdistan and about the Kurds entailed outsiders who have presented Kurdish identity and history to fit within the margins of their Eurocentric worldview and interests. The literature that emerged including travelogues, reports, diaries, novels, and historical writings emerged from the perspective of legitimizing Western imperial objectives and justifying its cultural hegemony, while […]