How Will the Gulf Cooperation Council React to a U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal?
February 5, 2014 | The Gulf Cooperation Council needs to work together on a game plan for negotiating with Iran.
Articles by Judy Bankman
United Nations Description of Burma’s Rohingya as “Friendless” All Too True
January 29, 2014 | Buddhist mobs in Burma justify their attacks on Rohingya Muslims by claiming that the victims were illegal Bengalis trying to sneak into the country.
Tajikstan President Rahmon Brings Stability, But Not Prosperity
December 20, 2013 | Damning stat: according to the World Bank, in 2011 remittances from abroad constituted a whopping 47% of Tajikstan’s GDP.
Yemen: Chaos, Conflict, and Revolution
December 9, 2013 | Few in the West know that Yemen is not just the only state in the Arabian Peninsula with a republican form of government, but it was the first to grant voting rights to women.
Can Marvel Comics’s Latest Superhero Strike a Blow Against Islamophobia?
December 4, 2013 | Marvel may just be tapping into the Islamic market with its latest superhero, Kamala, but she can’t but help but undermine Islamophobia.
Iran-U.S. Nuclear Deal Signals a Gorbachev Moment for Rouhani
November 27, 2013 | Is Iran President Hassan Rouhani trying to open up Iran like Mikhail Gorbachev did Russia?
Housing Demolition in East Jerusalem
November 8, 2010 | As a way to maintain its control in East Jerusalem, the Israeli government has been displacing Palestinians through housing demolition orders.
Muslim Voices
July 27, 2009 | Islam is far from monolithic. A recent arts and ideas festival in New York proves the point.
The War Online
March 10, 2009 | The recent war in Gaza was also waged online, but with an important difference: People were talking to each other and sometimes even listening.