Jessica WhyteAdania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020)Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the Palestinian Nakba, a terrible crime is committed
A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia Tuesday after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity. This was the first judgment issued by Syria’s own courts against the head
UN experts on Monday decried the recent surge of violence and human rights abuses against civilians across Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, voicing concern that the rights crisis in the Palestinian territories continues to deteriorate at an accelerated rate,
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned Israeli forces in the West Bank for blocking and delaying ambulances carrying Palestinians to hospitals with “appalling regularity”, including forcing a pregnant woman in active labor to deliver on the road in an incident
It’s a deeply bloggy tag, so it makes me want to do a post collecting recent iterations of “deeply.” The first time I used it — in “Deeply… it’s such a poser word” — I had a
By Dr Emilie McDonnell
University of Tasmania School of Law
Across the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia and beyond, millions of people are being denied their right to leave and subjected to a discriminatory and exclusionary mobility regime.
Protecting
Natural hydrogen discoveries across Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are attracting developers and investors alike, with legal frameworks still being written in real time. Greenberg Traurig attorneys Nikki Wise and Bill Garner break down what it means for energy
The last two weeks have primarily grappled with the implications of the Chişinău Declaration, along with Israel’s continued policies concerning occupied Palestine: the establishment of ad hod military courts and its blockade of the Sumud Flotilla. Criminal proceedings in Iranian
David Schorr has published “Against ‘Anglicization’: Class, Codification, and the Common Law in Palestine’s Civil Wrongs Ordinance” in Law & History Review. The abstract provides:
This article explores the enactment of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance in Mandate Palestine in order
The war in the Middle East has plunged the world into yet another crisis. Days are paced by minute-by-minute updates: at first, tragic reports of civilian deaths and incendiary threats from US President Donald Trump, now fragile peace negotiations between
