Tag / human rights
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Qatari Controversy
The biggest sporting event in the world happens once every four years. The billions of global viewers, the billions of dollars in sponsorships and advertisements, and the immense value it carries to the world attest to its significance. Hosting the World Cup is an immense privilege, but also a massive undertaking. It is an honor…
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The Middle East In The 2020s
As the Middle East enters the last year of this decade, it has completed what could be the worst epoch in its history. Oxford Professor Eugene Rogan, in The Arabs: A History, talks about the feeling of humiliation present in the Arab world following a series of events. The defeat of Iraq in the First…
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How The Trump Stole Christmas
The chilly holiday season is a special time for warm and lighthearted family gatherings, but for Agustín Gómez Pérez, Christmas Eve brought only pain and grief when his 8-year old son, Felipe Gómez Alonzo, died from influenza while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in El Paso, Texas. Felipe is the…
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The Case for Foreign Policy Regulations
Anyone specializing in any field of policy will tell you that theirs is the most important. In the case of foreign policy, that argument might hold some weight. Since the end of the Second World War, an activist foreign policy on the part of the United States has coincided with the elimination of great-power conflict,…
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From Ben-Gurion to Bethlehem: Borders, Identity, and Doing Better
She stares at me one last time before stamping my visa, a flimsy piece of paper separate from my passport, and signals me to move ahead. I let go of a breath I had not realized I was holding. I’m greeted with smiles from my peers, and then look around and realize – we were…
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APO and BSA: Same Roots, Different Policies
BY PAUL BIGG for ALPHA PHI OMEGA Alpha Phi Omega (APO), the co-ed National Service Fraternity, was founded in 1925. One of the Fraternity’s purposes is to bring college students together in fellowship derived from the Scout Law and Oath of the Boy Scouts of America. Historically, Alpha Phi Omega and the Boy Scouts of…
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An Open Letter to Chancellor Wrighton
BY HENRY CLEMENTS Dear Chancellor Wrighton, I feel disappointed rather than assured by your recent email regarding the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Not everyone in the Washington University community opposes the boycott. Some of us endorse it. The statement you included in your email asserts that “a boycott of academic institutions directly violates academic…
