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January 24, 2014

Palestinian athletes are truly Olympian

The Palestine Olympic team has arrived in London. Made up of five athletes, it is the largest team Palestine has ever sent to the summer Olympics. The athletes are...

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January 24, 2014

Gaza Resumes Sporting Activities

Sports activities in the Gaza Strip resumed two months ago following the most recent Israeli military escalation against the region in November of last year. During last year’s attacks,...

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January 24, 2014

Women's racing team in Ramallah shows that there's more to Palestine than the Occupation

An all women’s motor racing team is not the first subject that springs to mind when imagining a new documentary to come out of the occupied West Bank, yet...

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January 24, 2014

Premier League football to return in Egypt, but behind closed doors

Seven months after a ban on domestic football was implemented in Egypt, the country’s Ministry of Sport has announced that the Premier League will return on 17 September. The...

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January 24, 2014

Over the Wall: A UK football team's journey into Egypt and Occupied Palestine

It begun with about 123 hours of footage, smuggled past suspicious border guards, and Jasper’s kitchen floor for a studio: “Terrible for our backs and postures,” Matthew explains. As...

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January 24, 2014

Why were the Egyptians happy that their team lost?

Does history repeat itself? Where once we had the late Sheikh Muhammad Alsharawi praising Allah for the reprehensible defeat of our army in the 1967 war with the Israelis...

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January 24, 2014

Israel and a Sports Boycott: Lessons from South Africa

Sports events celebrating physical culture and competition have long had underpinnings in political and social motives. From the ancient Greek Olympics and Gladiator tournaments in Rome to the elitist...

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January 24, 2014

Ban on settlement goods wouldn't break EU laws

Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. This is a fact, accepted by most countries in the world, so prohibition of trade with these...

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January 24, 2014

Be careful not to overstate the significance of individual resignations in Syria

For months now, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has been described as “increasingly isolated” and “embattled”. Yet the regime has so far held fast, despite growing discomfort with massacres of...

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January 24, 2014

The Missing Piece of the Arab Spring jigsaw? What the protests mean for Jordan

The protests in downtown Amman are a restrained affair and do not compete in size to the millions in Tahrir Square, Cairo. In fact, other than on Fridays, it’s...

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