After Hamas launched an unprecedented bloody terrorist attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused a high death toll and involved hostage-taking, Israeli forces responded harshly through indiscriminate, “incessant bombardment of Gaza” and then launched a ground invasion. The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights noted that “there is no safe place in Gaza and there is no way out. The humanitarian and human rights…
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While strategists, policymakers, and scholars around the world are overwhelmingly concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East (Israel-Gaza war) and the war in Ukraine, Afghan refugees have once again become a top agenda item for the foreign policies of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Home to the second-largest population of Afghan refugees worldwide (over 4.4 million), Pakistan ordered an ultimatum for forced deportation of 1.7 million undocumented Afghan refugees on November 1, 2023…
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Nawal is exactly how I (Susan) remember her, vibrant, energetic, smiling, dressed in a green flowing dress with a white head scarf wrapped in the Turkish style. We are sitting at the Fatih Municipality café, a cavernous grey-brown room with large windows looking onto Adnan Menderes Boulevard. Nawal orders carrot cake along with two hot teas, and we begin chatting…
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