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Quraysha Ismail Sooliman

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Quraysha Ismail Sooliman

Dr Quraysha Ismail Sooliman is project manager at the Centre for Mediation in Africa at the University of Pretoria

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA – SEPTEMBER 14: A woman looks from damaged tent following Israeli army hit Palestinian tents in al-Mawasi area, Khan Yunis, Gaza on September 14, 2024. The tents were destroyed and their belongings were damaged in the attack. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Sex, power and control: The Hidden crimes behind the Gaza genocide

The fact that political, media and corporate elites are susceptible to blackmail over sexual misconduct shapes global policies — including backing genocide

International Relations and Cooperations Minister Naledi Pandor. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

International Women’s Day: We can learn from Naledi Pandor and other women of integrity

In this time of theft and savagery in places such as Gaza, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Sudan and the DRC, thef international relations minister emerges as a symbol of…

The narrative has changed because people are revolting. The Western person in the street and the impoverished and abused global citizen are the ones revolting. (Photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Brics+ are checkmating the Western narrative on Gaza

The narrative has changed because people are revolting. The Western man in the street and the impoverished and abused global citizen, are the ones revolting

Our social media feeds are as key a field as any for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gen Z: Working the internet, forcing a ceasefire

Our social media feeds are as key a field as any for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free…

People search through buildings, destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on November 10, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Why the US and Europe are not incentivised to stop the Gaza genocide

Western interests are unashamedly callous in disregard for Palestinian lives

Israeli rescuers search for the bodies of those killed during an attack by Hamas militants in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Photo by Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Consent for genocide in Gaza is manufactured

It may be the first genocide in history to be live-streamed on social media

Rescuers carry the bodies of people pulled from collapsed buildings after Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza on October 09, 2023. The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza has risen to 493, the Gaza-based Health Ministry said on Monday amid ongoing fighting. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Resistance is dignity … The 7th October Palestinian uprising

To call the conflict “terrorism” highlights a bias in Western-centred reporting

Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images

Proudly woman, proudly South African

Women exhibit a radical resistance to the war within and the war experienced in their daily lives.

Imtiaz Sooliman, of Gift of the Givers.

South Africa needs leaders with conscience

Conscious leadership implies self-awareness, empathy and a commitment to ethical behaviour

1949: Rumours of a black teenager being attacked by an Indian shopkeeper sparked days of violence in Durban, with an eventual casualty list of 100 dead and 500 injured. Photo: Bettmann

Indians were the soft target of looting insurgents’ Plan B

The recent violence has been a cruel reminder for many South African Indians of the 1949 anti-Indian pogroms in KwaZulu-Natal