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.

For a sports event established and still trading on the rhetoric of world peace and unity, such a controversial intervention from a past FIFA leader is unprecedented and extraordinary. FIFA, ...

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has lost political legitimacy as entrenched party elites, systemic corruption and patronage networks undermine governance. Economic fragility, salary freezes and ...

Turkey’s economic struggles arise from a bureaucratic tradition that favors state control over the creative destruction essential for capitalism. Political elites, from the Ottoman Empire to the ...

Zou Jiayi’s appointment as president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) underscores the Bank’s deep political alignment with the Chinese Communist Party, challenging its claim to ...

[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 ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

Sarito Carroll lived in Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s commune in Oregon, which collapsed under criminal charges 40 years ago. Like most teenagers in Rajneeshpuram, she was sexually abused there. Now she is ...

American historian Anne Applebaum coined the term “Autocracy, Inc.” to describe government leaders around the world who function like an agglomeration of like-minded people. They are not united by ...

In 2024–25, Bangladesh's remittances reached a record $30.04 billion, representing a 25.50% increase from the previous year, driven by government reforms and a shift from the informal hundi system to ...

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 ...