December 28, 2025. Tehran.

Domestic unrest is once again shaking Iran. The political climate is tense, and security forces are launching a brutal crackdown.

Despite a government-imposed blackout, first-hand accounts continue to emerge, and they are harrowing.

What is happening in Iran?

December 8th, 2024. Syria.

The Assad regime collapsed almost overnight. Since then, everything has been moving fast. 

Despite a troubling past, the new president is shaking hands with world leaders. Western countries are lifting sanctions. Syria, once a pariah state, is welcomed back into the Arab League, received at the Élysée, and hosted at the White House.

But one question lingers: How is Syria really doing?

This is a partial account of what went right and what went wrong, beyond the handshakes, receptions, and press conferences.

October 31st, 2025. New York.

Inside the quiet chamber of the UN Security Council, a historic vote took place: Resolution 2797.

For many, this resolution is just one document among dozens adopted each year. But for Morocco, it marks the end of a 50-year struggle that weighed heavily on its economy, military, diplomacy, and people.

This is the story of a vote that could end one of the last territorial disputes of the 21st century.

In December 2024, the regime of Bashar al-Assad collapsed, ending the 61-year ruthless rule of the Ba'ath Party. Since then, Syria has been undertaking a difficult test. Assad's departure may signal Damascus is ready to break from its authoritarian past, but to what extent is this true? What makes the path ahead of Syria fragile and uncertain? Is it possible for dictatorship to resurface? How can such a scenario be prevented?

The Oufkir case is one of the dark chapters in Morocco’s history. It is a case about power, trust, treason and injustice. It is also a case about life and how it can turn upside down so quickly. So what happened? Who is Oufkir? How has this name become almost taboo in Morocco? And what is the price of treason?

More than 60 years ago, the French capital witnessed a harrowing colonial massacre. Under the authority of Maurice Papon, an ex-Nazi collaborator, the police killed more than 250 Algerians for protesting against a discriminatory curfew.

Historical annals document a lot of genocides: the German genocide in Namibia, the Rwanda genocide, Darfur, and the Holocaust, to name just a few. But, do we really understand what genocide is? What qualifies as genocide and what doesn’t? Can committing genocide be justified? What do legal texts tell us?

From hosting the World Cup 2022 to signing multimillion-dollar offers with prominent footballers, why do some countries invest in football? What about Saudi Arabia and Qatar? What is sportswashing? What is the dark side of football investment?