AbdelRahman Ayyash

Oct 16, 2023 | tcf.org | Mac Skelton |Zachary Cuyler |Amr ElAfifi |AbdelRahman Ayyash

Palestinian militant organization Hamas’s massacres on October 7 have provoked shock and horror around the world. But revulsion at the group’s atrocities should not lead America into a historic disaster. The Biden administration’s almost unfettered support for Israeli retaliation in Gaza will not just implicate the United States in grave violations against Gaza’s civilians. It is also likely to embroil the United States in a broader regional war that will cost more American lives.

Aug 30, 2023 | tcf.org | Zeinab F. Shuker |Thanassis Cambanis |Amr ElAfifi |AbdelRahman Ayyash

Marching under temperatures that exceeded 120 degrees Fahrenheit, a group of farmers from Iraq’s southern marshes joined July’s Muharram processions in Maysan with the massive skulls of water buffalos strapped to their shoulders and backs. The display was both an expression of mourning as well as an indictment of the ecological disaster unfolding across agricultural areas of the water-scarce south.