Jimmy Carter, the former US president, Nobel laureate and founder of the Carter Centre, was conspicuously absent from the podium at the national Democratic conventions in 2008 and 2012, at which Barack Obama was nominated by the party for the US (...)
In December, less than a month after the American Studies Association (ASA) adopted a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions because of what the ASA described as Israel's persistent violations of the human rights of the Palestinian (...)
The ideology, or political project of Zionism, which underlies the creation of the state of Israel, had in fact a Christian origin rather than a Jewish one, as writings can be found dating from the 1500s written by Christian clergymen in England (...)
Realising justice for the Kurds, including compensation from the international community for having supplied the Iraqi regime with chemical weapons, continues to be an uphill battle, reports James Martin from Halabja
In Sulaimaniya, a predominantly (...)
By James Martin
On Sunday, Mauritanians voted into power Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a historic presidential election, widely praised as free and legitimate by international observers. Sunday's run-off election, coming on the heels of the (...)
Mauritania gears up for a second round of polling this month, though what the two presidential hopefuls stand for remains somewhat obscure, writes James Martin in Nouakchott
After the 11 March presidential elections in Mauritania proved (...)
Mauritania's presidential elections, while inconclusive yet, show that the country is moving positively towards political democracy, writes James Martin in Nouakchott
Last Sunday, Mauritanians flooded to polling booths to vote in their country's (...)