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Sven Jurschewsky is a retired Canadian Foreign Service officer who has specialised in security and nuclear arms control. In 1994, just five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) signed the Agreed Framework, which was aiming to suspend the latter’s nuclear programme, Although the agreement eventually failed, US policy became
Saudi Arabia-led bloc asks Qatar to shut Al Jazeera, close a Turkish army base and scale down Iran ties within 10 days. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that have cut ties to Qatar have reportedly issued a list of demands to end a major Gulf crisis, insisting that Qatar shut down the Al Jazeera network, close a Turkish military base and scale down ties with Iran. In the 13-point list, the cou
People from all around the world seek asylum in Japan, but just 28 were accepted in 2016. Jamal, 25, is one of seven Syrian refugees whose asylum applications have been accepted by Japan. He wears a coat which is the only thing he has from Syria [Shiori Ito/Al Jazeera] Tokyo, Japan – When Jamal, a 25-year-old Syrian, was granted refugee status in Japan, one of the first things he did was go back t
Gal Gadot did not just serve in the Israeli army as any other adult in Israel must but actually cheered on her comrades-in-arms when they were slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza, writes Dabashi [Getty] The splendid news of a lovely new superhero film Wonder Woman (2017), based on the DC Comics character of the same name, hitting the screens first reached me through the inauspicious report that it h
Website and digital platforms of entire Doha-based network undergoing ‘systematic and continual hacking attempts’. The websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing systematic and continual hacking attempts. These attempts are gaining intensity and taking various forms. However, the platforms have not been compromised. Last month, Qatar‘s official news agency was hacked
Today is the 423 day of the blockade imposed against Qatar by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt. One year ago, an air, sea and land blockade was imposed on Qatar by four Arab countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt. Here are the latest developments: Al Udeid base On August 2, Qatari Defence Minister Khalid bin Mohammad al-Attiyah visited Wash
Leaked emails point to strong relationship between the UAE and think tanks closely allied to Israel. The UAE's ambassador to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba, welcomes members of former defence secretary Robert Gates' staff in Abu Dhabi in 2010 [File: AP] The latest email leaks from the Hotmail account of the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, could threaten Emirati diplomac
Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people. It’s a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of truth. When we read it, we reinforce assumptions and stories about Africa that we’ve heard throughout our lives. We reconfirm our image of Africa. Try something different. Africa is rich, but we steal its
Sudipto Mondal in an investigative journalist who reports mostly from South India on caste, communalism and corruption. Every effort was made last summer to keep the diversity project at the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) a secret. But word had somehow gotten out a few days after classes started that some students had got special caste-based scholarships to study at the premier journalism schoo
A growing number of Malaysian female cosplayers are merging their fandom with their religion in creative new ways. In April, the Malaysian capital hosted the country's first event dedicated to hijab cosplay. [Preeti Jha/Al Jazeera] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – From Monday to Friday, Hafizah Rashid works as a medical laboratory technician in the Malaysian capital. But on the weekends she is a superhero
Where is the Indian government fighting Maoist rebels? Maoist armed groups have a presence in 104 districts across 13 of India’s 29 states. Armed Maoist groups have mainly been active in the mineral-rich tribal regions of India, which cover more than 100 districts. Maoist-related violence has declined in recent years, with 2015 witnessing the lowest levels in six years, after the Indian government
A refugee camp in a small German town stands on the spot of a mosque built to entice Muslims to fight for the kaiser. In May 2015, the Wunsdorf refugee camp suffered an arson attack [Karolina Spolniewski/Al Jazeera] Wunsdorf, Germany – It’s late afternoon in Wunsdorf, a small town 50km south of Berlin. Winter has left the landscape dry and hazy, so the lights are already on in the local refugee ca
Sexual assault of schoolgirls is commonplace on Japan’s public transportation, but now more girls are speaking out. Schoolgirls face groping and worse on Japan's crowded city subway lines [Shiori Ito/Al Jazeera] Additional reporting by Shiori Ito. Tokyo, Japan – Tamaka Ogawa was about 10 years old when she was sexually assaulted for the first time. It was a public holiday and she was on the subway
I always knew I was black. My childhood was the scent of coconut oil hair cream and the taste of bean pie after Friday prayers in a Bilalian mosque on Chicago’s south side. I knew the words to Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and called Harold Washington my mayor, even though I lived in the suburbs. My parents had immigrated to the United States from Sudan in the late 1970s and raised my sister and me to be
In his landmark work, Orientalism, Edward Said theorised that Muslims are fundamentally subjects of study and scrutiny for Western outsiders, systematically excluded from the enterprise of contributing and commenting on their very existence. While the modern media discourse is preoccupied with Islamophobia, Orientalism remains front and centre – in the form of an alarming absence of Muslim experts
‘Japanese Americans will be allies of Muslims. We know civil rights can be overridden in a climate of fearmongering.’ When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, my grandmother, Aiko Nishi, was an eager 18-year-old sophomore at San Francisco State University who dreamed of becoming a teacher. She was a “Nisei”, a second-generation Japanese American born in the US to Japanese immig
Japanese Americans remember discrimination they endured during WWII and say they will defend Muslim Americans. Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco pledge allegiance to the American flag in April 1942, prior to the internment of Japanese Americans [Dorothea Lange/Ceative Commons] Los Angeles, United States – For Japanese and Muslim Americans embracing a growing relationship in the
US President Donald Trump‘s executive order to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries is being compared to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Barely two months after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry residing on the country’s western coast were branded a military threat and put inside internment camps across the country.
Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ is not the first time specific groups or nationalities have been blocked from the US. Over the past 200 years, US presidents have placed restrictions on the immigration of certain groups [File: Reuters] On Friday, Donald Trump barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen – from entering the United States for at
The election of Obama offers a noteworthy parallel context in which to consider the emergence of BLM, writes Morgan [Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA] I don’t like to write about Barack Obama any more. It’s become painful. I love him and what he represents. His wife is a national treasure. I admire his daughters and their poise. I held my breath during his farewell address, counting down the moments until he
Foreign ministry calls on US envoy to intervene with giant e-retailer as users decry sandal emblazoned with icon’s face. Flip-flops bearing the face of India’s independence icon Mahatma Gandhi for sale on Amazon triggered fresh outrage on Sunday, days after the e-retail giant was forced to stop selling Indian flag doormats. On Wednesday, India demanded Amazon apologise for selling “insulting” door
Ambassador recalled in protest against statue symbolising victims of Japanese wartime sex slavery. A bronze statue of a seated woman with a bird on her shoulder was placed in front of the Japanese consulate [Yonhap/Reuters] Tokyo has recalled its ambassador to South Korea to protest against the placing of a statue symbolising victims of Japanese wartime sex slavery outside Japan’s consulate in the
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in front of a new Jewish settlement construction site, in the Occupied West Bank [Reuters] Last week, the world stood fixated at a largely symbolic gesture by the United Nations in which it found the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank of Palestine to be illegal. Or did it? Although the UN Security Council, with rare uniformi
At least 28 Iraqis killed and dozens wounded as blasts triggered by suicide bombers strike crowd during morning rush. At least 28 people have been killed and 54 others wounded in a double bombing in the centre of Baghdad, according to Iraqi police and medical officials. The blasts, blamed on two suicide bombers, went off on Saturday near car spare parts shops in Al Sinak during the morning rush, p
US abstains in demanding Israel to halt settlements on Palestinian land, allowing Security Council to pass resolution. Palestinian protesters argue with Israeli soldiers during a protest against settlement construction [File: Abed al-Hashlamoni/EPA] The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a resolution demanding the halt of settlement activity by Israel on occupied Palestinian territory with
As electoral college votes in Donald Trump, many US citizens plan move to Canada, but may face cold reception. Lola Al-Uqdah is planning to move to Canada because she feels 'concerned about [her] safety, the safety of [her] family' [Ricardo Kuettel/Al Jazeera] Lola Al-Uqdah won’t soon forget the morning of November 9. A mother of three and psychology professor who lives in Camden, New Jersey, Al-U
Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was shot dead in front of a crowd at a posh art gallery in the capital Ankara as the angry gunman screamed: “Don’t forget Aleppo”. Police later killed the assailant on Monday night, Turkish station NTV reported. Andrey Karlov, 62, was several minutes into a speech at an embassy-sponsored photo exhibition when a man who stood directly behind him in a dark suit shot the
Russia, Japan make no progress on territorial dispute Putin and Abe agree to start economic cooperation but do not find common ground on dispute over four islands. Russian President Vladimir Putin headed home from Tokyo with promises of economic cooperation, but did not indicate that there was a possibility of handing back the four islands which were seized by the Soviet Union in 1945. Putin and J
More than 465,000 Syrians have been killed in the fighting, over a million injured, and over 12 million – half the country’s prewar population – have been displaced. Here is how and why the conflict started: What caused the uprising? While lack of freedoms and economic woes drove resentment of the Syrian government, the harsh crackdown on protesters inflamed public anger. Arab Spring: In 2011, suc
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