“O Hell, open your gates—Hafez al-Assad is among your beloved.”Zainab Sayed still vividly remembers the phrase her father uttered when commenting on the death of Hafez al-Assad. It was an unbearably hot summer day that those present in the house...
Noon Post
16 March ,2026
The reality of states in the world of politics lies not in what they see of themselves but in what their enemy sees of them and this perception may lead states either to triumph or to fall.The events following October...
In the wake of the popular uprisings of 2011, several Arab leaders were ousted from power among them, the presidents of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen. While Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ended up in exile, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak...
In late February 2025, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency sent an official notification to Congress regarding a new deal with Israel. The agreement includes massive bulldozers manufactured by Caterpillar known in Hebrew as Dubi or “Teddy Bear.” Some of...
In a theatrical display replete with the usual flair of American presidential propaganda, Donald Trump announced his plan to “end the war” in the Gaza Strip. At its core, the plan centers on the recovery of Israeli captives both living...
Between last September and this one, a great deal has changed across Syria’s political borders and diplomatic negotiations. Alliances have shifted, forces have advanced and retreated, and yet one thing has remained constant: Israel’s unrelenting drive for expansion and its...
From the earliest months of the genocidal war on Gaza, the name Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has forcefully resurfaced; the man has moved across wide advisory circles, oscillating between the corridors of power in the United States,...
As Israel’s war on Gaza intensifies and its plans to invade Gaza City take shape, tens of thousands of Palestinian families find themselves forced once again to flee southward. The latest mass evacuation orders have driven residents to abandon their...
Language is neither innocent nor neutral. Its letters store the history and fate of people. In Gaza, the war has destroyed more than just buildings it has obliterated an entire vocabulary once used to describe the details of daily life....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely misses an opportunity to reiterate his commitment to annexing the Jordan Valley, which he presents as Israel’s “eastern front.” No longer seen merely as a border zone with Jordan, the Valley has become a...
Inside a makeshift wooden studio, shielded from the deafening sounds of explosions and shelling across the Gaza Strip, voice-over artist Fawzi Al-Qassas, 33, stands before a microphone, holding a Gulf-accented script. His voice was selected from among twenty freelancers on...
