Why Sanders is my man (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

I am never the one to hold back on an opinion — after all, I earn my living pontificating, not just on the op-ed page but on the lecture circuit as well. So I’ll tell you up front: Bernie Sanders is my man, the candidate I’ll be casting my vote for in the next general election, should he win his party’s nomination, as all of us hope and pray.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/911061

Spreading tendrils of racism (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

The monstrous Daesh attacks in Brussels last Tuesday, that brought mayhem, chaos and bloodshed to the Belgian capital and left 31 people dead, was heinous in the extreme, coming as they did a mere five months after the group’s equally monstrous attacks in Paris, that took the lives of 130 innocent civilians.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/901011

Nostalgia for the absolute (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

The indomitable Donald Trump continues to soldier on, undefeated in his battle to win his party’s nomination at its convention in Cleveland in the third week of July.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/897436

Walls, ghettos ... Jewish archetype (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

The Palestinians, especially those in the West Bank, have watched helplessly as their land in Area C was progressively gobbled up by Jewish colonizers, thus making it geographically and politically impossible for them to establish a viable Palestinian state. Sadly, Palestinian leaders have been able to do little to push the cause of the people’s struggle for survival, let alone independence.

http://www.arabnews.com/news/893886

Beyond Super Tuesday (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

The triumph of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday, the most consequential night of voting so far in the American presidential election, was no surprise to anyone, least of all to pollsters who had predicted that the foul-mouthed real estate mogul and the deeply-flawed politician will score big in all 12 states where voters had cast their primary votes.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/890901

Inexorable march of a maverick (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

Americans are today beginning to entertain the thought that Donald Trump may indeed win his party’s nomination to run for the presidency, and perhaps even the general election in November. The thought, at the outset of the campaign six months ago, was a mere whimsy in the minds of political analysts.

http://www.arabnews.com/news/886911

Is Palestinian blood cheap? (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/862376

Surge toward Super Tuesday (Jamal Doumani, Arab News)

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/855866