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Jerusalem: The Politics Behind The Latest Explosion Of Violence In The Holy City
The recent violence at the al-Aqsa mosque/Temple Mount area and in the Old City of Jerusalem has spiralled…
Israel-Palestinian Violence: Why East Jerusalem Has Become A Flashpoint In A Decades-Old Conflict
Weeks of tensions between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem have boiled over in recent…
Trump’s Recognition Of Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital, Explained
President Trump just officially declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, upending decades of US diplomacy and…
Jerusalem : The City Of God
Jerusalem, considered to be one of the holiest places on Earth. Christianity, Islam and Judaism all regard Jerusalem…
Jerusalem : A Modern View On An Ancient City
Mount of Olives Reading the Torah Silhouettes, Western Wall Site of Jesus’s Burial Arab…
Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Is The Two-State Solution Now Dead?
Ian Parmeter, Australian National University The growing rift between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government over Israel’s…
The Long And Complex History Of Israel And Palestine
The history of Israel and Palestine is a centuries-spanning narrative, richly layered with the influences of religion, geopolitics,…
Hamas assault echoes 1973 Arab-Israeli war – a shock attack and questions of political, intelligence culpability
The parallels were striking – and surely not coincidental. Exactly 50 years and a day after being taken…
Empire’s Echoes. Unravelling The Gordian Knot Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Here we are, standing at the mouth of a century-long vortex, peering into the chaos and complexities of…
The Deadliest Pandemics In Human History
The number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus in China has surpassed that of the 2003 SARS…
‘World Heritage’ site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money
The April 2019 fire that engulfed France’s Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, led to an outpouring of grief…
Addressing Climate Change: What Cities Can Do
With development accumulating at a rapid pace, cities continue to grow in number. Right now, urban areas dominate…
Why The “Wrong Side Of The Tracks” Is Usually The East Side Of Cities
What do communities on the social, economic and environmental margins have in common? For one thing, they tend…
The Gaza Strip Is Only 25 Miles Long. Here’s How It Became The Center Of Decades of Conflict
The border between Gaza and Israel has once again become the focal point for clashes between protesters and Israeli troops, as Palestinians…
What Palestinians Can Teach Us About Popular Resistance
The people of Gaza rose up not because of Palestinian political factions, but despite them. The ongoing popular…
When Nationalism No Longer Works, Maybe It Is Time For Civicism
“I love New York” is perhaps the most successful slogan in modern history. Cities around the world are…
The Global Conflicts To Watch In 2018
“The U.S. is now the most unpredictable actor in the world today.” As conflicts ignite and burn and…
Earth Is Speaking Back To Us With Alphabets!
In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam…
Marvel At These 10 Cities With Open Air Stages
Listen, watch, and marvel at open-air stages as great as the performances on them. From the National Geographic…
A New Urban Marketplace To Address The Needs Of Our Time
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. With all the need that exists in the world…
What Is The Oldest City In The World?
Mark Twain declared that the Indian city of Varanasi was ‘older than history, older than tradition, older even…
Projecting City Realities In Comics
Raised in New York, fed by newspapers and nourished by urban life, comics tell the secrets of cities…
NYC Underrated Basic Human Right, Public Drinking Water
Water as a liquid has no shape. It acquires definition from its surroundings, providing boundaries and edges to…
Bethlehem Syndrome : Understanding The Little Town Of ‘Brand Holy Land’
Every iconic city around the world has a story that embodies the power of its spell. In Jerusalem,…
The Unlikely Ascent Of Palestine’s Green Architects
One of the first thoughts Danna Masad had about the importance of architecture occurred to her in early…
Day-Night Cityscapes In Pictures
US photographer Stephen Wilkes spends 15 hours perched on a rooftop or crane photographing each city from one…
City Maps Through The Ages
From London’s cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, these are the works of the earliest data gurus, who…