There is no doubt about it: the Israeli war in Gaza that began in October 2023 will prove to be a defining historical event.It is already shaping the…
Israel has begun its invasion of Rafah. It seems that this could be the final battle in Israel's war on Gaza, and its high stakes beg tough questions…
In 1940, after France had been defeated by the Nazi blitzkrieg, the historian Marc Bloch condemned his country’s inter-war elites for having failed…
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath have fundamentally transformed university campuses worldwide, both as physical and abstract…
Many rumours surrounded the 49-year-old Russian composer and musician Erast Belling, who came to Damascus in 1927, fleeing persecution in the Soviet…
“If you look at Russia today, military production goes up, and consumption goes down. That is pretty much what the Soviet Union used to look like…
The world today is a geopolitical hot mess. One source of that messiness is a lack of consensus among scholars and policymakers about the global…
At the end of January, Israel’s war on Gaza was estimated to have reduced up to 60% of Gaza's properties to rubble. Recent estimates put the figure…
India is BrokenAshoka Mody (Stanford University Press, 528 pp., $35, February 2023Anyone who wants to understand India in 2024 should begin with…
In the Saudi capital last week, a very special organisation in the Islamic world celebrated its 50th birthday.The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB),…