On February 27, students and faculty from Seton Hall University gathered together to listen to a lecture by Thomas R. Pickering, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Bush.
Read more
On the March 14, Angela Merkel was sworn in as German chancellor for the fourth time, but there is an increasing dissatisfaction among Germans concerning her leadership.
Read more
In Pakistan, where religion is inextricably tied to culture and tradition, “honor” killings carried out in the name of a family’s reputation have become normalized and are on the rise.
Read moreEvery spring break, the School of Diplomacy holds one or more short-term study abroad trips open to undergraduate and graduate students. This year, one of the trips was an 8-day excursion in China, where students visited Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
Read more“Nine days, seven flights, four cities, two princes, one kingdom – and limitless cups of Arabic coffee,” the Diplomatic Envoy’s own Managing Editor traveled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Read moreThe attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia by a thought to be extinct nerve agent may be spiraling Western Allies and Russia eerily close to a tense political showdown.
Read more
Israeli media continues to paint the murders of Arab-Israeli women, dying at the hands of their own family members, as a uniquely “Arab” problem and fail to address the larger societal flaws at work.
Read moreThe United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) released their Global Happiness Report on March 14.
Read moreIndia’s history of honor killings exist in an already vast context of gender-based violence.
Read more
Despite being considered the most progressive Arab nation in the Middle East, Jordan maintains one of the highest rates of honor crimes in the world.
Read more