
Azad Essa
Journalist at Middle East Eye
Journalist @MiddleEastEye; Author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Pluto Press); My newsletter: https://t.co/532Fyq3FUZ
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4 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Hanan Zaffar |Azad Essa
When *Taufeeq Ahmed boarded a flight from New Delhi to Canada in early 2020, he wasn’t chasing a promotion, a degree or the promise of a better paycheque. Instead, he was trying to leave something behind - a heavy sense of unease that had been quietly building for years, and a fear that had finally become impossible to ignore. “I lived close to Jamia Millia Islamia,” he said, referring to the prominent university in New Delhi where he used to study.
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
The markets are empty. The make-shift hospitals are bare. The water is contaminated. The aid trucks are nowhere in sight. Gaza is being starved, and rights groups say, deliberately. At least 57 children have starved to death since 2 March, and 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next eleven months.
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2 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Marco Carnelos |Azad Essa
It was an afternoon of several cruel ironies. With the genocide in Gaza reaching barely fathomable levels of brutality over the past several days, including a UN warning about the imminent deaths of up to 14,000 infants, US President Donald Trump accused South Africa of conducting a “white genocide”. Trump, not known for his deference, flat out asked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to explain the killings of white farmers in the country.
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1 month ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
In the early hours of Wednesday, the Indian army launched a series of air raids on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The airstrikes hit mosques and madrassas as well as residential complexes, leaving 31 civilians dead, including several children, the Pakistani government said.
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1 month ago |
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa
On 17 March, Badar Khan Suri, the Indian post-doctoral scholar at Georgetown University, was picked up by masked agents from the Department of Homeland Security outside his home in Virginia.
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