Reading Between the Lines: The Devil is in the Interpretation “…now is not the moment to blame the victim,” writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian, and Dan Raviv in Time Magazine1 while defending the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made Gaza the...
“Who Won the Iraq War? Twenty Years On, Iran, China and Russia boosted while US loses ground in the region” Introduction The twentieth anniversary of American-led aggression in Iraq generated a Great Debate around what was achieved, squandered, and why the US...
On White Ignorance and being a security problem What happens… when the researched become the researchers?1 W. E.B. Du Bois, in his celebrated work ‘The Souls of Black Folk’, articulates a question that persists between him and the other world, ‘how does it feel to be...
Power and Consent: Interpreting Gramsci’s Multidimensional Nature of Hegemony Just as a captain cannot steer a ship without the crew’s cooperation, rulers cannot exercise power without the consent of the governed or as Parker contends: Dominant groups in...
Hegemony of Media Misrepresentation: New York Times’ Representation of the Israel-Palestine Conflict The media does not operate in a vacuum from social, cultural, and political contexts. Its visualizations, texts, and reporting cannot be considered an isolated...
