Unwritten Lives

While the United States has issued only eleven formal declarations of war since 1776, it has engaged in more than four hundred military interventions. This staggering disparity underscores a pattern: the country’s most consequential conflicts rarely pass through constitutional channels but emerge from executive prerogative, shifting geopolitical anxieties, and the entrenched interests of its security establishment. The attack on Iran fits squarely within this tradition.

The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’.

It has been 20 years since the UK’s first same-sex civil unions took place on 19 December 2005. Adnan Ali and Eric Stobbaerts were one of the first gay couples in London to form a civil partnership on that historic day. They are both busy men with global lives. Unwritten Lives was glad to catch up with them in London, where the couple spoke with Ishtiyaq Shukri.

Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence in Israeli prisons

I, a mother of Gaza, amidst the trill of missiles with cries submerged, In the fumes of bombs I have now turned blind

Khayam Turki is not merely a political prisoner. He is a turning point, demonstrating how President Kaïs Saïed’s authoritarian rule has transformed Tunisia from the beacon of the Arab Spring to the laboratory of democratic disillusionment ignored by Europe.