Fawaz Turki, Special to Gulf News

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A columnist’s pause, not a full stop

Taking a break from writing op-eds does not mean it is the end of the conversation

Numerous columnists writing their last column have over the years mused over how agonising the exercise is.

When America criminalised freedom of expression

The Mahmoud Khalil Affair is raising serious doubts about the state of free speech in US

A protestor demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil at Foley Square on March 10, 2025 in New York City.

Oscar win by No Other Land is a statement in itself

The fact that it won without official distribution was an eloquent statement in itself

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham winners of the Best Documentary Feature award for "No Other Land" attend the 97th Annual Oscars Governors Ball at Ovation Hollywood Complex on March 02, 2025 in Hollywood, California.

Forced from home, Palestinians fight to exist

Forget about Palestinians ever going gentle into the night

Displaced Palestinians fleeing Israeli military operations in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza

Trump's Gaza plan: A real estate vision of displacement

The US President's strategy to relocate Gazans faces global backlash and legal scrutiny

President Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his idea of exiling Palestinians and placing a rebuilt Gaza under "US authority," but faced pushback from visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II.

Biden’s legacy: A one-term president’s tumultuous exit

Biden’s presidency ends with controversies and shattered expectations

US President Joe Biden walks out of the Oval Office in Washington, DC.

How the world failed Palestine

The world’s silence on Gaza’s genocide marks a failure of humanity and justice

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza

Soul of Gaza: Khaled Nabhan’s tragic farewell

Fourteen months into that war and Gaza remains a Guernica landscape of destruction

Khaled Nabhan

How global attention overlooked a massacre in Gaza

Palestine’s year of unspeakable loss must not fade amid louder global headlines

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip on December 7, 2024

The beauty of life through the hourglass of age

A defiant take on ageing, wisdom, and breaking societal norms — at age 84

Old age should not be seen as lost youth but as another stage in one’s life where the longer one lives, the wiser one becomes and the more beautiful life appears

Is free speech under siege in America?

Bill HR 9495 stifles speech, curbs ideas and erodes intellectual freedom in the US

The US Capitol is seen at dusk in Washington

Trump's blueprint to reshape Middle East alliances

Concerns mount as the incoming US administration makes several hardline appointments

Some of President-elect Trump's picks have raised significant concern among critics both in the media and on Capitol Hill

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