The Sovereign State of Palestine That Never Was
“What if” is a fascinating game. It forces you to use your imagination, think round a subject, probe possibilities, consider options. On July 11, 2000. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Barak,…
“What if” is a fascinating game. It forces you to use your imagination, think round a subject, probe possibilities, consider options. On July 11, 2000. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Barak,…
Terrorism has torn Egypt’s Sinai since 2011 and turned it into a military operations area. But what if Egypt’s cardinal problem is not Sinai’s terrorism? Since the group of the…
Over the past two days, Yarmouk camp has seen fierce clashes and shelling. Despite these hard times and nearly two years of siege, people like Ahmad are trying to…
Criticism this week by soccer player Ahmed Al-Merghani of general-turned-president Abdulfattah Al Sisi’s hard-handed repression of dissent and failure to defeat a mushrooming insurgency in the Sinai peninsula signals mounting…
Friday, June 26, 2015 was a day of horror. In the seaside resort of Sousse in Tunisia nearly 40 sunbathing tourists were mown down by gunfire; earlier that morning a decapitated…
The Economist recently highlighted the contrast between post-revolt Asian societies and Middle Eastern and North African societies in the woes of a prolonged, messy and bloody transition that is pockmarked…
The so-called Islamic State, more commonly called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has suffered few military setbacks. The one that the Iraqi and American governments like to…
The US and Arab military strategies across the Middle East and North Africa have failed to reverse the rise of often retrograde rebel forces in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya.…
“When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defence rushes in. In a place where public services no longer function these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to help anyone in…
While under siege in a very sad place in the world, a Syrian medical student volunteers to do some good and keep up with the world. Here is the 24-year-old…