The opening sequence, inexplicably, has a wrestling match with two contests enjoying their carnage, only for us to find a whistleblower in the crowd being threatened by two official-looking goons. The ...

The remarkable thing is that, in this story, the crocodile is actually the most consistent participant. He does not pretend ...

Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to ...

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result that was analysed carefully in neighbouring Azerbaijan. The ruling ...

The global discussions around the controversial movie Citizen Vigilante are both boring and alarming. Because if people don’t ...

I am asked how I can stand up for Jews in general and Israel in particular, now that a United Nations commission of inquiry ...

The Church of England is undergoing a disheartening descent into spiritual darkness. Once an institution […] ...

The November Men' (1993) purports to be about a director making a docudrama about a plot to kill the president. The ...

For decades, the phrase “from the Nile to the Euphrates” has occupied a peculiar place in Middle Eastern political imagination, drifting between symbolism, fear and accusation depending on who is ...

The European Commission’s 2026 meta-study on energy connectivity across the Eastern Partnership, the South Caucasus, Turkey, and Central Asia provides a timely assessment of Brussels' view of the ...

History in the Middle East rarely begins where modern analysts think it does. Most discussions of geopolitics start with the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, or the creation of the modern state of ...

Hello everybody – my friend gave me a book of Bronze Age Pervert, also known as BAP. I call him BAP for brevity & clarity. My friend is valuable – he also writes books, crowdfunds them, and presents ...