by ANDREW HAMMOND for OPEN DEMOCRACY on APRIL 25, 2013: Tension with its Gulf neighbours began to rise from 2006 when Qatar and Al Jazeera stood with Lebanese Shi’ite group Hizbullah during its war with Israel, while western allied states clearly hoped to see the Iranian-backed militia wiped out. Secular activists and politicians in Egypt [...]
by ALI HASHEM for AL MONITOR on MARCH 6, 2013: “Our brother Hugo passed away.” These could be the very words the Arab world used to circulate news of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. For many Arabs, Chavez’s death means almost as much to them as it does to his loyalists in Caracas. For [...]
by MIKE GIGLIO for THE DAILY BEAST on NOVEMBER 7, 2012: As the death toll in Syria’s civil war has mounted in recent months, many rebels have wondered why the U.S. government is not doing more to aid their cause in the drawn-out bloody conflict, now entering its 20th month.
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 31, 2012: With the weekend Eid al Adha “ceasefire” broken in Syria, and continuous fighting since, there appears to be less and less hope of a resolution to the sectarian conflict in Syria that is turning into a civil war and an international quagmire. Noted Syria scholar, [...]
Enis Baris: Youth Bulge Now, Will Cost the MENA Region in Future
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary, on JANUARY 17, 2013: It’s been barely two years since Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of a government building in Tunisia. Just prior a policewoman had demanded he hand over his wooden cart laden with fruits and vegetables because he didn’t have a [...]
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