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JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. In this interview, Prashad delves [...]

“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation… The latter is not possible without the former.” Jose Ortega y’ Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958)  For now, the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria has [...]

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated on Friday that Syria’s transition to a new government must include marginalized groups if Damascus hopes to secure European support. Her remarks came during a historic visit to the Syrian capital, marking the first high-level European engagement since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad last month. Baerbock emphasized that all Syrians [...]

Demonstrations erupted in several Christian neighborhoods of Damascus and other parts of Syria on Monday demanding protection for Christians in response to the arson of a Christmas tree near Hama, amid ongoing Christmas holiday celebrations. The protests followed the circulation of a viral footage on social media, which depicted hooded individuals setting fire to an [...]

A senior UN aid official called Friday for inclusive governance, the rule of law, and robust humanitarian measures to steer Syria toward a stable transition. Adam Abdelmoula, the UN resident humanitarian coordinator in Syria, emphasized the critical need for unity, humanitarian assistance, and reconstruction in the wake of the Assad regime’s fall. He urged the [...]

Tens of thousands of civilians in northeast Syria are facing a worsening displacement crisis, according to a report that Human Rights Watch released on Wednesday.  According to the report, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated as armed conflicts have intensified, leading to significant population movements and severe shortages of essential resources such as food, water, and [...]

Fighters with the Syrian opposition movement breached the capital Damascus early Sunday, reportedly freeing prisoners held in the country’s Sednaya Prison, according to Reuters and Al Jazeera, with Reuters reporting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the capital. The opposition is claiming that Assad’s government has fallen, just one week after rebels took the country’s [...]

Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday released its decision to retain the 30 percent government job quota for the children of freedom fighters in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. In the judgement delivered by Justice Khizir Hayat, the court found that both the judiciary and all authorities of the state machinery were bound by previous authority [...]

Pakistan rejected Monday its designation as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) by the United States State Department over religious freedom concerns in the South Asian country. The US State Department designated Pakistan as a CPC on January 4 following a recommendation from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The Pakistan Ministry of [...]

What do the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the Ahmaud Arbery trial, and Charlottesville’s Unite the Right trial have in common?  In addition to the considerable media attention they have garnered, and proximity to several other parallel social justice issues, these trials have sparked conversations about the role of race in jury selection.  The rise of big [...]