The Toronto-based Syrian cartoonist Mwafaq Katt spoke to NCM’s Arzu Yildiz about his experience as an artist, why in Syria his drawings were considered a crime, and why he decided to come to Canada.
View More ‘I Came to Canada for My Freedom’: Syrian Cartoonist Mwafaq Katt
March 15, 2021 will mark 10 years since the start of the civil war in Syria, but as the West’s priorities appear to lie elsewhere, there is little hope for the Syrians’ suffering to end any time soon, writes Hakam Kherallah.
View More 10 Years into Syrian Civil War: No End in SightThe spark of revolution that was ignited in Tunisia in January 2011 quickly spread to other Arab countries, but exploded into conflagrations of violence and instability, notably in Syria and Egypt. As such, for most…
View More Learning from Tunisia’s Arab Spring Success
The ‘Arab Spring’ took the international community by storm in 2011, ushering in a new sense of optimism and hope for the people of the Arab world. Many countries in the Middle East and North…
View More Tunisia: Why I Remain OptimisticFour years after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand political, social and economic change, their movement has been overshadowed by the country’s ongoing war against terrorism. From the carpet merchant…
View More After Tahrir: Egypt’s Growing War on Terror
When the series of revolutionary protests and riots – dubbed the “Arab Spring” – broke out in late 2010, news outlets worldwide were quick to highlight the role of social media in bringing these demonstrations…
View More Understanding Social Media and Revolutions
The proxy wars between Islamist and secular Arab leaders that have been seething across the Middle East for three years have broken into open conflict with air attacks on rebels in Libya. The airstrike last…
View More Bombing of Libyan Islamist Rebels a Turning Point in Mideast Proxy Wars
The way Canadian Arab media covered Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s first visit to Israel and the Middle East in mid-January has illustrated that the six-decade-plus Arab-Israeli conflict is no longer occupying the first rank on…
View More Arab Pulse: Regional Conflicts Trump PM’s VisitThe third anniversary of President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster came and went last week with little fanfare, no ceremony and lots of shrugs of the shoulder. Many Egyptians were instead out in the parks, cafes and…
View More Egypt: Many Markers, Little ProgressThey cannot go unnoticed – luxury cars with Syrian number plates roaming the streets of mega-rich Dubai, which is playing host to tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing the fighting in their home country. Owners…
View More Syria: a truly wicked problem