The 2017 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report included a highlight from a 2016 survey of 750 experts who concurred that water scarcity poses the gravest threat to global society over the next decade. Some regions are obviously more arid than (...)
There is a looming water crisis that is beginning to manifest itself in very serious ways across the North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) region. The general public seems oblivious to the threat and national ministries often seem to be looking (...)
Renewable energy projects gain a boost with the emergence of a specialised international agency to champion them, writes Stuart Reigeluth*
After almost exactly a year, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) now comprises 142 countries. (...)
Beyond cathartic critique, is not the wreckage and havoc wrought in the Middle East by the US a blessing in disguise, asks Stuart Reigeluth*
Just as Arab nationalism emerged from European colonialism across North Africa and the Middle East in the (...)
The region is experiencing the largest and fastest arms race in the world, and it's going nuclear, writes Stuart Reigeluth
The balance of power is shifting in the Middle East. Iran is the great winner of the US occupation of Iraq, and Persian power (...)
The more Europe stands idly by, watching Israeli war crimes and collective punishment in Gaza, the more its foreign policy aspirations fall apart before its eyes, writes Stuart Reigeluth*
Attempts by the US-Israel-Palestinian Authority presidency (...)
The chances of a Palestinian state are fast diminishing, as Israel forges ahead with the Judaisation of East Jerusalem, writes Stuart Reigeluth
Another Jewish settlement is being built. It is called Nev Tzion/ Manthar Al-Thahabi (the Golden View) (...)
Stuart Reigeluth watches a Palestinian film in Spain
No other film director has dealt so directly with the topic of Palestinian suicide-bombings as has the Palestinian Hany Abu Assad. And no other contemporary film has looked so closely behind the (...)
Stuart Reigeluth, in Jerusalem, visits the Khalidi Library and takes stock of the twists and turns of its recent history
Since 1967, Israeli authorities and Jewish groups have coveted the Khalidi Library for its enviable location on Bab al-Silsila (...)
Friday's festival gives hope for a brighter Palestinian future, writes Stuart Reigeluth from Gaza
As usual after the mid-day prayer, the mosques are empty and the people of Gaza take their siestas. The kitsch wreaths of fake flowers are still on (...)
Showing this week in Nazareth, the theatre adaptation of Mahmoud Darwish's Jidariyya (Mural) reconfirms the connection between drama and poetry in the context of occupation and resistance. Stuart Reigeluth discusses the performance in relation to (...)