Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
Thinkers Forum, Sept. 24, 2025: Amid Israel’s attack on Qatar, what’s next for the Middle East? We speak with Professor Stephen Zunes, who provides insights, analyzes the positions of key players, and explains everything you need to know about the…
CNA (Channel News Asia), Singapore, Sept. 10, 2025
AlJazeera television, Sept. 10, 2025. Stephen Zunes, was one of the three guests. Israel’s bombing of a residential building in the capital, Doha, that was housing Hamas leaders, has drawn global condemnation. Fighter jets fired missiles into a residential compound…
African Digital Democracy ObservatoryDisinfo.Africa quoted Zunes June 27, 2025:Washington Post echoes disputed claims that Saharan mercenaries were captured in Aleppo: On April 12, 2025, the
CNA/Channel News Asia television in Singapore (Mediacorp)7-min. Video: Restoring US-Syria ties may depend on battling terrorism and ensuring Israel’s security.
* 20-minute interview with Kris Welch on recent Middle East developments [May 30, segment starts 1:06:45]* Two on recent developments in Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. policy, repression of student activists, related issues: June 8 begins at 10:20 and May…
Al-Jazeera Media View, March 2025: On the onset of the U.S. bombing of Yemen [source link is no longer accessible]
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Al-Jazeera English March 5, 2025 (28 mins.): On the Arab League’s summit and quite reasonable reconstruction and administrative plan for Gaza, which both Israel and the United States have rejected. This follows US President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly expel…
The Progressive 02/06/2024: Plus Five Background Articles: Yemen: Adding Fuel to Fire, Sojourners, June 2017: US military strikes in Yemen are feeding the rise of al-Qaeda [and] exemplify the failed U.S. policy in the region. Powerful Nonviolent Resistance to Armed…
The Progressive, March 1, 2022: There’s No Justification for Russia’s Aggression, But U.S. Double Standards on Illegal War Are Hard to Stomach: Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy could hardly be more striking. Al Jazeera quotes Zunes March…
Truthout, March 2, 2021, by Stephen Zunes [source] The US has bombed Syria more than 20,000 times over the past eight years, so last week’s attack on a border post in northeastern Syria, which killed 22 militiamen and apparently no…
Conditions under Sudan’s oppressive autocratic regime did not fit into what Western analysts see as the right ones for a successful pro-democracy civil resistance movement and yet they have emerged victorious—at least for now. Among other things, its success points to perhaps the single most important factor: nonviolent discipline.
Sojourners January 2019: Despite manifold horrors inflicted by the Saudi regime over the years, it was not until the grisly murder of a well-connected exiled journalist in early October that public attention has finally been given to the monarchy’s savagery…
Truthout July 10, 2017: Daniel Falcone Interviewed Dr. Zunes SZ: “Most credible academics and journalists on the left, while varying to some degree in their analyses, generally agree that the Syrian regime is horrifically repressive and not particularly progressive by…
The Progressive & Huffington Post June 16, 2017: The decision by the Saudis and allied dictatorships to sever ties with Qatar and impose draconian sanctions on the tiny nation has precipitated a major regional crisis, and President Trump’s support has…
Washington’s support for Yemen’s former dictatorship — and of Saudi efforts to sideline the country’s nonviolent pro-democracy movement — helped create the current crisis.
While media coverage of the tragic situation unfolding in Yemen in recent months has focused on armed clashes and other violence, there has also been widespread and ongoing nonviolent civil resistance employed by a number of different actors.
Santa Cruz Sentinel February 20, 2015 One of the greatest myths is that the U.S. government supports democracy. In reality, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. remains the world’s No. 1 military, financial, and diplomatic supporter of authoritarian…
Uprising Radio August 12, 2013: Obama has escalated the U.S. unspoken war on the Gulf Arab state of Yemen with 9 drone bombing raids in 10 days killing about 3 dozens Yemenis… apparently in response to an Al Qaeda terrorist…