Opinion piece by Isaac Hammouch Modena, May 16, 2026. Salim El Koudri, a man of Moroccan origin in his thirties, deliberately drives into pedestrians in the center of the Italian city. Eight people are injured, four of them seriously. A woman loses both her legs. He exits his vehicle with a knife in hand before…
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to worsen, the United Arab Emirates remains one of the leading Arab countries providing large-scale assistance to Palestinian civilians. The arrival this Thursday of the final aircraft from the “Hamid Air Bridge” at Egypt’s El Arish International Airport highlights the scale of an operation that has continued uninterrupted…
Health officials in a growing list of countries scrambled on Thursday to track people connected to a deadly outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization also predicted a “limited” spread of the virus if public health measures were implemented. “This is not Covid, this is not influenza,” Dr. Maria Van…
Admittedly, Americans seem to have a soft spot for books about faraway places that end up reminding them of themselves. Hansen’s, though, is in many ways too rich and complex to provide an easy parallel. Erdogan often gets lumped in with other 21st-century strongmen, but on migration, for example, he has taken an idiosyncratic tack….
