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The West Bank Bedouin community of Khan Al Ahmar, given a temporary reprieve. Majdi Mohammed / AP

The Khan Al Ahmar resistance is proof of the power of peaceful protests

The tiny village is bringing the David and Goliath battle back to the foreground and won a small victory last week

October 22, 2018
Tourists visit the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, overlooking the Old City and the Dome of the Rock at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. AFP

When it comes to local politics, Jerusalem's Palestinians just can't win

Participating in the system implicitly acknowledges Israeli sovereignty, while not doing so means there is scant hope of this community's dire needs ever being heard

October 10, 2018
Assassinated Israeli ex-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and the late Yasser Arafat, with former president Bill Clinton during the 1993 Oslo peace accords in Washington, DC. Ron Edmonds / AP

Twenty-five years on, the Oslo Accords are dead. They served only to advance, entrench and protect Israel’s occupation

Since that fateful handshake between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, the reality on the ground for Palestinians has never been bleaker

September 6, 2018
Bottles of Pepsi sit in a cooler at a gas station in San Francisco, California. AFP

PepsiCo puts itself in the firing line with SodaStream purchase

The company profited from an Arab embargo on Coca-Cola, but it’s now defying the boycott call

August 23, 2018
Demonstrators attend a rally to protest against the 'Jewish Nation-State Bill' in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. Jack Guez / AFP

Israel can no longer hide behind the illusion of liberal democracy

As the Nation State Bill and others pass into law, the Jewish state's public relations campaign will suffer, writes Joseph Dana

July 26, 2018
The coffin of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is carried into Orlando Stadium for the official state funeral in Soweto, Johannesburg. EPA

Never far from controversy, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's legacy raises questions over the state of the ANC's ideological project

Underlying all of the challenges is the fact the ANC traded control over the country’s economy in exchange for political power at the end of apartheid

April 17, 2018
Israel's illegal occupation, separation wall building and settlement construction have been continuing at pace for decades. AFP

Trump's accelerated Jerusalem decision is desperate electioneering 

This is not strategic thinking, writes Joseph Dana, it is the act of a wounded politician and party

February 26, 2018
A 2016 file photo of Jacob Zuma (L) and Cyril Ramaphosa arriving at an ANC rally in Johannesburg. AFP

Jacob Zuma and the bigger question about South Africa's future

After nine years, the Zuma era is coming to an end. Joseph Dana assesses what will happen next

February 14, 2018
Last month, the airline carried 6.1 million passengers, a rise of 3.6 per cent, but the increase was less than a quarter of April's 15 per cent boost. Reuters

Turkey and Israel’s deep trade ties expose the emptiness of Erdogan’s rhetoric over Jerusalem

Without a shift in Turkey’s economic connections to Israel, Ankara's fiery words amount to very little, writes Joseph Dana

December 21, 2017
Without the economic power that Barcelona, would the Catalan regional government have pushed for independence? Chris McGrath / Getty Images

From nation states to global cities, what is the future of urbanism?

Joseph Dana reviews the role of urbanism in the Catalan and Kurdish drives for independence to discuss the rise of city states

October 22, 2017