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Sharmine Narwani
Sharmine Narwani has a Master of International Affairs (MIA) degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in both Middle East studies and journalism, and from 2010-2014 was a Senior Associate at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Sharmine has written commentaries and analysis that have appeared in a variety of media publications, including Al Akhbar English, the New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, BRICS Post, the Huffington Post, As-Safir, USA Today, Russia Today, Salon.com and others.
What really happened in 2019? We’ve assembled the perfect cast to rake over the wreckage to explain […]
Former Newsweek journalist Tareq Haddad speaks to Sharmine Narwani, a Canadian journalist and geopolitical commentator based in […]
Two polls show that despite economic hardship, Iranians choose security over upheaval, support their government’s regional role, […]
Data from two foreign polls tell a very different story about protests in Iran. The economy is […]
A curfew was imposed in Baghdad and several other cities in Iraq’s southern provinces, but hundreds of […]
With the so-called Afghan peace process in tatters, U.S. troops still in Syria, Iraq more times than […]
The Middle East has always been a sandpit for military powers to fight their proxy wars. The […]
U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from […]
Interview by Patrick Lawrence in Salon. Read Part 1 here. In part one of my exchange with Sharmine Narwani, the Beirut-based […]
By Patrick Lawrence in Salon. When the war in Syria was recently declared decisively over, there were few […]
It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly […]