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In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.

In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.

Doha, Qatar: The international conference of Water Ways: Epistemologies and Aesthetics concluded on Tuesday, February 20, 2024. The conference was o...

As the violence between Hezbollah and Israel intensifies, our webinar aims to examine whether ongoing U.S. diplomatic efforts can prevent a full-scale war from breaking out. Our expert panel will analyze the framework of U.S. mediation, dissect Hezbollah and Israel's strategic calculations, assess local costs and the role of the Lebanese government, and weigh wider regional implications.

Israel and Egypt both aim to demonstrate to the Arab world the destabilizing effects of supporting the Shia axis.

The term that the US used in its UN Security Council draft resolution about the Gaza conflict has changed to

“There is a nightmare dream in Egypt: The fear that hundreds of thousands of Gazans will threaten to break through the Rafah Border Crossing into Egypt,” a senior lecturer at

Nikolay Surkov stressed that today the Middle East was witnessing what he described as "the formation of regional centers of power that can theoretically unite the region and calm things down"

Campaigners warn new training uses controversial antisemitism definitions and could affect free speech

We call on students and alumni to reject SOAS’s neoliberal and genocidal agendas and stand up to the administration’s suppression of Palestine solidarity.