Month: March 2026

Readings on Sovereignty, Pluralism, and the Arab Dilemma 1. Hezbollah is a Lebanese Party Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shiite Islamist political party, founded by Lebanese members in 1982. It adheres to the doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih, an Islamic theory that holds that, during the occultation, the qualified jurist should exercise guardianship and leadership over the ...

Trump’s attack on Iran has been wrapped in shifting justifications: nuclear danger, missile threats, freedom for the Iranian people, and now threats against civilian infrastructure. But behind the changing script sits an older Western habit: gendered Orientalism, the idea that Muslim societies are uniquely barbaric and their women uniquely in need of rescue. That framework ...

هناك خطابٌ سياسي يقدّم نفسه على أنه “واقعي”، بينما هو في كثير من الأحيان ليس إلا طريقة مهذبة لتبريد الغضب الأخلاقي، وتذويب الفوارق، وتحويل الجرائم الكبرى إلى مجرد “تعقيدات”. يبدأ هذا الخطاب عادةً بعبارات من نوع: “الصورة ليست أبيض وأسود”، ثم ينتهي عمليًا إلى مساواة المعتدي بالمعتدى عليه، والمشروع الاستعماري بمن يقف في وجهه، والجلاد ...

All human beings have the freedom for trade, labor, and profiting from all legal ways without hindrance, and for each full time laborer the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the ...

In times of war, some voices wrap themselves in the language of “realism” while blurring the most basic truth in politics: there is still a difference between the aggressor and the attacked. Criticizing Iran is fair game. Using that criticism to soften the clarity of U.S.-Israeli aggression is something else entirely. By Wissam Charafeddine There ...

In what may stand as Ali Larijani’s final major public message, Iran’s top security official issued a blunt appeal to Muslims and Islamic governments, accusing them of silence, cowardice, and political betrayal as Iran faced war with the United States and Israel. Hours later, Israel said it had killed him in a strike near Tehran ...

Courtney Wild’s interview with 60 Minutes Australia does something the Epstein discourse too often fails to do: it strips away the internet static and shows, in brutally human terms, how a trafficking operation actually functions from the inside. Not through cartoon-villain theatrics. Through grooming, dependency, money, shame, and the slow corruption of a child’s sense ...

In what appears to be the first high-level public break inside the Trump administration over the war on Iran, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent resigned and accused the administration of waging a war Iran did not imminently threaten to start. In his resignation letter, he said he could not “in good conscience” support the ...

في أول انشقاق رفيع ومعلن داخل إدارة ترامب بسبب الحرب على إيران، أعلن مدير المركز الوطني الأميركي لمكافحة الإرهاب جو/جوزيف كينت استقالته، قائلاً إن إيران “لم تشكّل تهديدًا وشيكًا” وإن الحرب بدأت “بسبب ضغوط من إسرائيل ولوبيها القوي.” ليست هذه ملاحظة هامشية من موظف غاضب في آخر الممر. هذا خروج سياسي وأمني من قلب غرفة ...

As Britain's Greens shatter expectations in Labour heartlands, a growing coalition of U.S. Green congressional candidates is watching — and organizing — for a watershed 2026 midterm moment. By Dearborn Blog Staff  |  March 10, 2026 When Hannah Spencer — a plumber-turned-politician who never attended university — swept to a stunning victory in Britain's Gorton ...

Dearborn Blog is partnering with Simon & Associates Real Estate to expand community-powered storytelling—amplifying authentic local voices while keeping editorial independence, transparency, and fair-housing principles front and center.^1,2 Dearborn has never had a shortage of opinions. Our problem is distribution. That’s the idea behind a new partnership between Dearborn Blog—led by its CEO Wissam Charafeddine—and ...

From Napoleon’s march on Cairo to modern “operations” named like video games, the Arab & Muslim world has repeatedly been treated as a testing ground for empire—first by European colonial powers, later by superpowers and regional militaries. This timeline is a starting map of that long pattern, with corrections, context, and sources. Empires don’t always ...