In the annals of modern Middle Eastern history, few documents have cast a longer or darker shadow than the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.
Unlike lions or metaphysical plagues, the mosquito kills without spectacle—its victims slip away in silence, far from poetry and pageantry.
Mob violence has become one of the most pressing challenges confronting Bangladesh.
Counterfactual thinking is not idle speculation but political vigilance.
Hubris that had been a weapon in resistance became a liability in governance.
We need a political ethic that resists collapsing into either technocratic detachment or populist fury.
To grieve without demanding reform is to accept the inevitability of recurrence.
The July uprising was a networked event, a convergence of actors both familiar and unexpected.
In the annals of modern Middle Eastern history, few documents have cast a longer or darker shadow than the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.
Unlike lions or metaphysical plagues, the mosquito kills without spectacle—its victims slip away in silence, far from poetry and pageantry.
Mob violence has become one of the most pressing challenges confronting Bangladesh.
Counterfactual thinking is not idle speculation but political vigilance.
Hubris that had been a weapon in resistance became a liability in governance.
We need a political ethic that resists collapsing into either technocratic detachment or populist fury.
To grieve without demanding reform is to accept the inevitability of recurrence.
The July uprising was a networked event, a convergence of actors both familiar and unexpected.
In the first half of 2025, Bangladesh’s economic headlines have swung between cautious optimism and deepening alarm.
The Israel-Iran conflict is about who defines global legitimacy.
