Published by The Independent (28th December, 2015) Who will mourn the passing of 2015? It seems such a grim year filled with terrible tales of atrocities, extremism and […]
Lebanon / World
Bride of ISIS – the ultimate female jihadist icon
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd February, 2015) For radicalised Muslim women in Britain and beyond who seek to marry into the blood-stained ranks of Islamic State, […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Summer on a kibbutz as Sharon dragged Israel into a quagmire
Published in The Independent (January 13th, 2014) In 1982, facing the long summer of a second-year student in the days of student grants, I followed a friend – […]
Immigration / Policy / Syria / World
Open our borders to Syria’s refugees
Published in The Independent (September 12th, 2013) Azad Sino fled with his wife and two children from the Syrian city of Aleppo nearly two years ago, when the […]
Politics / Syria / World
We wring our hands as poison spreads
Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 25th, 2013) More than 100,000 Syrians lie dead. One-fifth of a 22 million population has been displaced. Yet even a few months […]