The G20 has invited Bangladesh to participate in its annual summit for the first time this year. Bangladesh’s growing economic might and its strategic location at the crossroads between South and ...

On February 26, 2026, the Supreme Court of India banned a school book. It was a civics textbook written for 14-year-olds with a chapter titled “The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society.” Among other ...

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 ...

The recent protests in Iranian Kurdistan, sparked by economic hardship and political repression, have been met with brutal government violence, including mass killings and a total internet blackout.

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 ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

Once obscure and overlooked, rare earth elements (REEs) are now at the heart of the 21st-century technological revolution. From precision-guided missiles and electric vehicles to wind turbines and ...

India’s 1975–1977 Emergency saw Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government suppressing free speech and arresting dissenters. My father was one victim, taken from my family for writing against the ...

Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has transitioned into a competitive authoritarian regime under President Donald Trump. They ...

They have little hope, plenty of hate and scant traces of what most would consider humanness. Something appears to have infiltrated the minds of young men, reminding them that they should think and ...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century, the Middle East has been marked by conflict, violence, political instability, foreign interference, the rise and consequent ...