by Qaisar Shareef | May 19, 2018 | Middle East
A grand event took place in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018 when, with extreme fanfare, the U.S. Embassy in Israel was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The city was recognized by the U.S. government for the first time as the capital of the state of Israel, putting aside...
by Nancy E Dollahite | Feb 24, 2018 | Book reviews, Middle East, Travel
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh offers a personal account of what it is like to have the place you love taken away piece by piece and be helpless to stop the loss. It is a sad book, yet also lovely, giving one view of the...
by Qaisar Shareef | Apr 18, 2017 | Qaisar Shareef, Turkey, USA
Citizens of Turkey just voted in a referendum on whether to move from a parliamentary to a presidential system of democracy – one in which a great amount of power would be concentrated in the hands of one person, the duly elected president of the country. Turkey...