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Mihran Kalaydjian

Jun 14, 2026, 12:01 PM

Trump’s Iran Gamble

Iran survived. After years of sanctions, covert operations, cyberattacks, assassinations, and military strikes, the regime in Tehran remains standing. Now it may be on the verge of receiving exactly what it needs most: time. The emerging memorandum of understanding between the United...

May 17, 2026, 12:22 AM

Eshet Chayil: A farewell to Meira Yona of Mosul

Still image from the video interview recorded at Meira Yona's house in Haifa, 22 June 2022. Source: Author.

She left al-Mawṣil with the clothes on her body. She kept everything that mattered — the poem, the dialect, the love her parents taught her in Markab. Meira Yona has died, in Haifa, in her ninety-sixth year. I called her...

Mohamed Elbaikam

May 15, 2026, 10:38 PM

Western Sahara: Policy or Propaganda?

In Washington, distant unresolved conflicts can easily become files on a national-security map. But when such conflicts are read only through the language of security, investment, alliances, and geopolitical competition, the risk is that political narrative replaces legal fact....

Eliezer Avraham

May 1, 2026, 1:44 AM

The Threads We Carry

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Reflections on gratitude, heritage, and the giants who shaped our community LIVING LEGACY: CARRYING FEZ INTO THE FUTURE How one man’s journey reminds us what it means to build home, history, and hope A Life That Spanned Continents and Centuries Attending the memorial...

Apr 1, 2026, 2:19 PM

Crisis in the Middle-East: India a Civilizational Witness, Not a Bystander

Cyrus Cylinder. Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Modifications by مانفی (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Why the world’s most plurally constituted civilization has a moral and strategic obligation to interrupt the Middle East’s amnesia, and why its silence is a form of complicity. The debate this essay seeks to provoke is not about India’s foreign...

Mar 25, 2026, 7:52 PM

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A cherished Palestinian friend whom I have known for many years, and whom I trust with the keys to my house and would trust with what is dearest to me, lives in the village of Masafer Yatta, near Hebron,...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Mar 14, 2026, 11:56 AM

The Shadow War Is Over — Iran Must Finally Face Consequences

How long can Iran keep shooting missiles? How long can everyone else keep shooting them down?

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran waged a calculated war against Israel from the shadows. Rather than confronting the Jewish state directly, Tehran built a ring of fire around it. Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hamas and Palestinian...

Arnon Rubinstein

Mar 4, 2026, 2:25 PM

The book that wrote itself

Sitting in a coffee shop in London with my wife and sister, we were trying to translate one of the ruder Hebrew sayings in a way that will rhyme in English. The one about the elephant and the chicken. Following...

Feb 26, 2026, 8:23 PM

‘I’m a Muslim! Stop, Stop!’

Osama Abu Assa. Eulogized as a man with a large and pure heart (Photo: Facebook)

On October seventh, Osama Abu Assa did the unthinkable, trying to save strangers he'd met only minutes earlier

Feb 9, 2026, 10:36 AM

Israel Must Stop Treating the ‘Arab World’ as One; Moroccan Jews Are Not Arab

A collage of two images: the upper photo shows Benjamin Netanyahu and Sara Netanyahu celebrating Mimouna, the traditional Moroccan Jewish holiday marking the end of Passover (Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90). The lower photo features former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at a Mimouna celebration in 2023 (Mark Neiman/GPO).

The Moroccan Jewish culture as manifested in Israel today is a lamentable distortion of its authentic Maghrebi essence. What was once a multi-stranded cultural matrix of Amazigh (Berber), Andalusian, and Sephardic threads has been bleached and contorted by decades...

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