"I think the moment we are living in is a moment of deep estrangement and uncertainty and fragmentation on so many levels."

The Biden administration has aligned itself with an unreasonable and unachievable Israeli goal in Gaza.

Israel’s Supreme Court is a stronghold of justice for Jews only. It does not champion universal human rights, but the human rights of Jews, in a Jewish state.

In an interview with Democracy in Exile, Kenneth Roth discusses donor-driven censorship at Harvard, his nearly three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch—and much more.

“The Israelis will have to come to terms with what they have done to the Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese tells Democracy in Exile in an extensive interview.

On Monday, May 6, it appeared that an end to the bloodbath in the Gaza Strip was finally in sight.

The Jordanian government has been harassing and intimidating activists abroad, while threatening to retaliate against their family members still in Jordan.

In the past few weeks, Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem has been the site of several violent attacks in which Palestinians, many of them teenagers, have gone out to stab Israelis, and then often paid...

Exactly a year ago, my father Rached Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia’s elected parliament, was arrested at our home in Tunis.

The fear that shock and outrage in Israeli society over Hamas's massacre will be exploited for ethnic cleansing on a large scale should not be waved off.

Rafah, where Mohammed Abu Lebda has lived all his life, is now making "her plea to the world."

There are sectarian overtones to conflict in the Middle East today, but to say it is all about sectarianism is to perpetuate as monolithic a claim as a “clash of civilizations.”

Author and journalist Rula Jebreal spoke to Democracy in Exile following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Author and journalist Rula Jebreal spoke to Democracy in Exile following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, life for the past two months, under a blockade imposed by Azerbaijan, has recalled memories of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Author and journalist Rula Jebreal spoke to Democracy in Exile following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Why do Israeli lives have meaning, but Palestinian lives do not?

DAWN’s non-resident fellows on the historic decision to seek arrest warrants at the International Criminal Court for Israeli officials and Hamas leaders.

The gravity of the crimes against humanity in Xinjiang deserves global action, or else abusers like the Chinese government will be further emboldened.

They were asleep when some Israeli pilot dropped a bomb on our house. Just like that. My family wiped out.

“The Israelis will have to come to terms with what they have done to the Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese tells Democracy in Exile in an extensive interview.

The gravity of the crimes against humanity in Xinjiang deserves global action, or else abusers like the Chinese government will be further emboldened.

"It began on Oct. 7, 2023. On that day, heavy sounds of thunder began to fall on our heads like rain. We didn’t leave home until a week later, when the bombing intensified."

To take stock of Biden’s trip and what is at stake, Democracy in Exile reached out to a wide range of experts and analysts.

The initial ruling on Friday by the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide against Israel made history, and that is not hyperbole.

The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants and the ICJ’s orders for provisional measures together expose the organizing logic of Israel’s war: to deliberately deprive Palestinians in Gaza...

The fear that shock and outrage in Israeli society over Hamas's massacre will be exploited for ethnic cleansing on a large scale should not be waved off.

Israel’s response to the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh has been a textbook example of hasbara, the Israeli effort to dehumanize Palestinians through propaganda.

The illegal, U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 20 years ago cannot be extricated from the deeper, darker history that helped set the stage for it: the devastating economic sanctions against Iraq throughout...

The gravity of the crimes against humanity in Xinjiang deserves global action, or else abusers like the Chinese government will be further emboldened.

The U.S. is an active and complicit partner in Gaza's killing fields, and judging by official statements, the Biden administration is proud, even boastful of its role.

Understanding history is key to understanding this moment. Acts of genocide don’t occur suddenly.

The magnitude of the catastrophe in Sudan requires all international powers to work together to end this war.

Why do Israeli lives have meaning, but Palestinian lives do not?

Author and journalist Rula Jebreal spoke to Democracy in Exile following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Syrians are dying not only because of a natural disaster but also because of the unnatural indifference of an ill-named “international community.”

The archipelago of Socotra still officially belongs to Yemen, yet the United Arab Emirates has effectively seized the islands for itself.

The archipelago of Socotra still officially belongs to Yemen, yet the United Arab Emirates has effectively seized the islands for itself.

There is a more “practical” and moral option for the U.S. and other countries dealing with Saudi Arabia: deny Mohammed bin Salman the recognition and legitimacy he seeks and without which he cannot...

Exactly a year ago, my father Rached Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia’s elected parliament, was arrested at our home in Tunis.

Syrians are dying not only because of a natural disaster but also because of the unnatural indifference of an ill-named “international community.”

In an interview with Democracy in Exile, Noam Chomsky argued that the threats of both China and Iran are inflated and advocated for a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.

What impacts could the protests in Iran have across the Middle East, both for activists in Arab countries and their widely repressive governments?

“The Israelis will have to come to terms with what they have done to the Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese tells Democracy in Exile in an extensive interview.

Let the students build a thousand camps. Let them occupy the buildings of every university administration that has shown itself incapable of fostering a place of free inquiry and learning.

Western democracies cannot say they have no part in what Tunisia has become if they keep indulging Saied and ignoring his abuses.

The most popular stories of the year in DAWN's journal, from regional experts and exiles from the region.

There is a more “practical” and moral option for the U.S. and other countries dealing with Saudi Arabia: deny Mohammed bin Salman the recognition and legitimacy he seeks and without which he cannot...

The Israel/Palestine conflict has been exported globally. The tools and technologies Israel uses to repress Palestinians are sold to over 130 nations around the world.

The shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to send ripples around the world, including to some unexpected places.

The idea that the Assad regime will respond to normalization with concessions of its own flies in the face of everything we know about how the Assads have ruled Syria for more than 50 years.

Western democracies cannot say they have no part in what Tunisia has become if they keep indulging Saied and ignoring his abuses.

How has the suppression of the history of the Nakba shaped Western policy toward Israel and Palestine over the past 75 years?

The Biden administration has aligned itself with an unreasonable and unachievable Israeli goal in Gaza.

The International Court of Justice, a sober and restrained court very conscious of its place in the international system, has issued a formidable decision that matches the public temper of our times.

The Senate voted this week on S.J.Res.31, a joint resolution of disapproval that would have blocked the sale of $650 million worth of air-to-air missiles from the United States to Saudi Arabia.

Many Yemenis have lost hope in any effort aimed at resolving, or at least easing, what the U.N. has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Western democracies cannot say they have no part in what Tunisia has become if they keep indulging Saied and ignoring his abuses.

The fear that shock and outrage in Israeli society over Hamas's massacre will be exploited for ethnic cleansing on a large scale should not be waved off.

"The U.S. foreign policy establishment is somewhat blind to how the rest of the world is turning away from the United States."

The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants and the ICJ’s orders for provisional measures together expose the organizing logic of Israel’s war: to deliberately deprive Palestinians in Gaza...

How will the International Court of Justice’s decision on genocide in Gaza reverberate around the world?

"What the occupation and the Palestinian Authority share is that they don’t want accountability," Ubai Al-Aboudi, the executive director of Bisan Center for Research and Development, says in an...

It has been said that the bigger the crime, the less likely it is that it will be prosecuted. This is the case not only for war crimes and genocide, but also for the crime of apartheid under intern...

That thing in her hand isn't a furled umbrella: / It's the microphone that records sounds / of birds, of air, of shooting, of warplanes, / and of weeping mums.

The illegal, U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 20 years ago cannot be extricated from the deeper, darker history that helped set the stage for it: the devastating economic sanctions against Iraq throughout...

Has Iran’s repression of its protest movement reverberated beyond its borders?

The gravity of the crimes against humanity in Xinjiang deserves global action, or else abusers like the Chinese government will be further emboldened.

"We're looking at days for the hospital to run out of fuel. If it does, then effectively the hospital becomes a mass grave."

When authoritarian regimes are confronted with public protest and social unrest, they often respond by violently attacking women.

In Yemen, war's costs have too often landed on civilians who bear no responsibility for the war nor for the wrongs committed during it.

In December 2020, activist Ghada Naguib became the first Egyptian to be stripped of her nationality because of her criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

If talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal are truly over, an opportunity to provide relief to ordinary Iranians has been lost.

Sudanese protesters at a rally in Khartoum against military rule on the anniversary of previous popular uprisings in Sudan, April 6, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Sudanese protesters at a rally in Khartoum against military rule on the anniversary of previous popular uprisings in Sudan, April 6, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

The idea that the Assad regime will respond to normalization with concessions of its own flies in the face of everything we know about how the Assads have ruled Syria for more than 50 years.

Alaa Abdel Fattah’s vision of a very different Egypt, along with that of millions of young Egyptians, has itself been imprisoned by Sisi's regime.

Sisi's regime requires a state of perpetual crisis in order to remain in power.

Legal reforms in Saudi Arabia are meaningless under such arbitrary rule.

In the past few weeks, Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem has been the site of several violent attacks in which Palestinians, many of them teenagers, have gone out to stab Israelis, and then often paid...

Exactly a year ago, my father Rached Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia’s elected parliament, was arrested at our home in Tunis.

Since the origins of the question of Palestine, international law in Palestine has been much closer to power than to justice.

DAWN’s non-resident fellows on the historic decision to seek arrest warrants at the International Criminal Court for Israeli officials and Hamas leaders.

Potential war crimes and crimes against humanity shouldn't be ignored just because they don't carry the same expressive weight as genocide.

Today, international law on genocide is working as it was designed to: allowing states to ruthlessly exterminate security threats while making it difficult to apply that law.

The magnitude of the catastrophe in Sudan requires all international powers to work together to end this war.

On her visit to Tunis last week, where she met with President Kais Saied alongside Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the president of the European Commission,...

“For many queer Palestinians, and many Palestinians who believe in absolute freedom, it just comes as second nature that when we fight for a free Palestine, we’re fighting for a Palestine that is...

Let the students build a thousand camps. Let them occupy the buildings of every university administration that has shown itself incapable of fostering a place of free inquiry and learning.