Russia-Taliban Relations: A Strategic Embrace or a Risky Gamble?
On July 3rd, Russia announced its decision to formally recognise the Afghan Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) regime as the country’s legitimate government. This marks a significant event nearly four years after the Taliban returned to power, coinciding with the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. For the Taliban’s…
The Forgetting of Being: Ibtisam Azem and the Lived World of Palestine
In his seminal non-fiction The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera highlights Edmund Husserl’s expounding of ‘Crisis of European Humanity’, holding that it was for the first time in Human History that people apprehended the world as a “whole”. To Husserl, a distinguished philosopher and founder of the school of phenomenology, the advent of the…
Surveillance, Cybersecurity, and Human Rights: Navigating Privacy in the Digital Age
Globalisation is well-rooted in the contemporary world order and has touched every aspect of human life. The present system is highly dependent on technologies that make it possible to connect across the globe. However, every comfort comes with certain disadvantages, and the adverse outcome of growing digitalisation, which is the very core of the present…
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