By Usman Butt X: TheUsmanButt ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ahmed Al-Sharaa has been in power in Syria for nearly 1-year. The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many. In Al-Sharaa, Syrian’s were greeted with a new kind of […]
One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu
by Dr Mohammad Yousef ( Middle East Monitor ) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York, citing the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him. Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC […]
A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying happens, transgressions inevitable. Some are genuine enough: silly […]
The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative
by Jasim Al-Azzawi ( Middle East Monitor ) – The world beyond 7 October 2023 is not the same. It is a world that has finally seen beyond the decades-old narrative of a perpetually vulnerable Israel, whose actions were always justified by existential fear. The brutal atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza have inflamed world […]
Vanishing Future? The Arab World Faces 2x Global Heating, Corruption and High Tech Divide
By Jasim Al-Azzawi ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Arab world is standing at a precipice. Climate change is accelerating at twice the global average across the region. Water scarcity threatens to erase up to 14 per cent of GDP by 2050. Illiteracy and failing education systems leave millions unprepared for the AI revolution […]
The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again
by Ranjan Solomon ( Middle East Monitor ) – The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the outcome – marked a moment that history may one day identify as a subtle but decisive shift. Not because […]
The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War
by Kiavash Kalhor and Mahdi Niksefat Motlagh ( Middle East Monitor ) – The dawn following 13 June brought no victory for Israel. The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an “Iranian eclipse.” Instead, evidence suggests both sides concluded the first round in a strategic, fifty-fifty […]
Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa
by Dr Oroub El-Abed ( Middle East Monitor ) – When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves. As reported by The Guardian (15 Nov 2025), the passengers — weary, hungry, and bewildered — were held on board for hours, unable […]
Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite
by Azmat Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) – The mass killing in Gaza and the onslaught in Sudan are part of a broader global pattern in which civilians are deliberately targeted. Those affected in both places are equally human, yet the world has responded differently. Gaza has prompted widespread global mobilisation, protests, boycotts […]
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