Singh begins by explaining the Muslim Brotherhood’s historic context. Founded in 1928 by Egyptian schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, the organization emerged during an era of imperial competition and ...

The US recently designated Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group amid ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces. Islamist factions, deeply entwined with ...

So, as usual, we’ll have a three-part structure. We are going to first ask the question: What are these tensions? Then we are going to pose the question: Why do we have these tensions? And then we ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

For a sports event established and still trading on the rhetoric of world peace and unity, such a controversial intervention from a past FIFA leader is unprecedented and extraordinary. FIFA, ...

Imagine a distant past, thousands of years ago, when ancient tribes roamed the vast lands of Eurasia. Among these tribes were the enigmatic Proto-Indo-Europeans, whose language, now known as ...

[Arab Digest thanks Christopher Davidson, a noted author and scholar for this piece. His latest book is From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.] Unveiled ...

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If you were alive and sentient in Britain in the 1980s, you will remember “multiculturalism.” This was an ideal, a policy, a statement of intent and an acknowledgment of the presence of several ...

The Democratic Party’s failure to change course over policies has increasingly isolated younger voters. The Party’s elites dismiss youth-led movements while also showing little accountability for past ...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre — one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s most vocal and prominent victims — was born in Sacramento, California, in 1983, but soon moved with her family to Palm Beach ...

Cyclical crises, exemplified by Argentina’s repeated sovereign debt defaults, exhibit recurring patterns of financial distress, currency depreciation and external shocks. The Schumpeterian framework ...