The Arab League’s latest sessions on Syria bring to mind the first Arab League summit I witnessed, in November 1973.…
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Hizbullah’s part in Gaddafi’s downfall
Libyans celebrated their liberation with mass demonstrations in Benghazi yesterday, the 28th anniversary of another landmark event in Middle East…
Continue reading →Bin Laden was no longer a force for most Arabs
The speaker of Sudan’s parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, may not have spoken for the entire Arab world when he condemned…
Continue reading →War: Still a Racket
Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and “finish the job against al…
Continue reading →Britain can never atone for its colonial past
David Cameron spoke with unusual candour for a British prime minister a few days ago when he told university students…
Continue reading →He is the regime
The Libyan dictator is resisting the popular forces ranged against him in ways that his counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt…
Continue reading →Women and Democracy in the Middle East
One of Israel’s finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, “Just as there is no such thing as…
Continue reading →Ex-Politicians Shouldn’t Talk
Politicians, especially those who climbed to the top, should disappear when they leave office. Deprived of spokesmen and advisors, they…
Continue reading →Spirit of 1848
It began when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself alight last December 17th in provincial Tunisia. Bouazizi was…
Continue reading →Politicians and Freebies
First it was Tunisia’s Zein El Abidine Ben Ali. Then it was Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Ousted by their own people?…
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