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| Can Arabs and Jews unite behind Barack Obama? |
Dr. Ghassan Michel Rubeiz
Arab and Jewish Americans should continue to support
Obama despite his apparent limits in capturing all the complexities of their
conflict. He remains sentimentally, culturally, and ideologically fair and
balanced in Middle East politics.
His limitations are not only in his knowledge of facts
about Israel and
Palestine . Attitude
matters too. In trying too hard to prove that he is not biased toward the Arab
cause, he is bound to occasionally stumble in attempts to reassure the Jewish
voter. Last week Obama’s diplomatic lapse at AIPAC (American Israel Public
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| Is Arab media truly free? |
Ramzy Baroud
On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a
communiqué outlining 'tough' guidelines for Arab satellite channels.
The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative
reporting of heads of state, religious or national figures
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| Minutes away but worlds apart |
Noa Epstein & Abed Eriqat
When you live ten minutes away - but worlds apart - from one another,
you can still learn essential things about each other, even after five
years of friendship and countless hours spent together. Abed and I spent over a week travelling together in the United States to promote our
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| A silent conversation |
Zahia bent el-Bahr
I glance at you again; I know she is on the line... I wonder if she
realizes that I am close by, listening to what you're saying...you are
talking to her in codes, the same codes that filled your conversation
with me when you called me again; I know she is on the line
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| Oil prices and obliterating Iran |
Hassan al-Husseini
Threatening war in the Persian Gulf does raise the price of oil.
Whether Hillary Clinton wants to obliterate Iran or John McCain wants
to bomb Iran, the result is another bump in the price of oil. It is a well-known fact in the oil industry that you can "talk up or down" the price of oil. It only takes rumors of shortages or threats of disruption to raise prices.
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| The role of France in the Mediterranean
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Arezki Daoud
Led by president Nicolas Sarkozy, a few senior French strategists have embarked on the daunting task of convincing the countries of the Mediterranean basin to form yet another regional union. It's a good idea but it is also one that has many more skeptics than believers. Even the powerful ... |
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| Lebanon: The choice between slow death and suicide! |
Zuheir Kseibati
Up until the day of the strike, bullets and gunpowder in Beirut, and before the fingers of strife sneaked into its streets along the new demarcation line, the Lebanese had a choice between a slow death and suicide. May 7 and its labor movement was not a mere copy of the black day that carried the confrontations from the walls of the Arab
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| Who pays for struggle for power in Saudi Arabia? |
Aladdin Elaasar
Saudi Crown Prince Sultan's has been rushed abruptly for urgent medical care last week. It was an alarming signal for a possible power struggle in the world's biggest oil exporter, and a sign of a serious problem that may disturb the succession
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| The return of the "prodigal" peace volunteer! |
Andy Allen
I lived in Morocco for over two years. I speak Berber, Arabic, and French: not perfectly, but well enough to communicate. Yet, I have never been more nervous than I was recently when I returned to Morocco for the first time as a tourist. And why was that?
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| The crisis of Arab role in Iraq |
Shehata M. Nasser
 Ever since US forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, which set off huge political upheavals and major security challenges, questions have occasionally been asked: Where are the Arabs amidst all the turmoil in Iraq , and how do they view Iraq from the prism of their own regional and nationalistic interests?
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| Can we "obliterate" the emotion-filled election pandering, please?
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Ray Hanania
I think I actually now prefer a president who can't properly pronounce the word "nuclear" over someone who keeps using it like the theme in a "Get Out the Vote" election strategy. Hillary Clinton said she would "obliterate" Iran if the Persian nation were to use a nuclear weapon against Israel. My guess is Israel can take care of itself
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| Iran and the battle of Baghdad |
Elias Harfoush
The daily battles raging in al-Sader city in Baghdad and claiming more than 900 lives last month alone have become another side of the ongoing confrontation between the American and Iranian camps in the region, whether directly or by proxy. So far, the direct confrontation takes a verbal shape and is reflected in the escalation within the Security Council with respect to the
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Book review
Global political Islam
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Global Political Islam explores the modern history of Islamic political movements in the Muslim world through a largely successful endeavor at presenting a panoramic view of Muslim politics of the past and present. The book explains the complex interaction between the rising tide of 'Islamism' with the ideals of nationalism, and globalization that invalidates the simplified model of the 'clash of civilizations' theory
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| US - Jordan: Allies on torture! |
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 The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) transferred at least 14 terrorist suspects to Jordanian custody for interrogation and torture since the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
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Publication of Arab literature in English
Change of paradigm |
Susannah Tarbush
When Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz became in 1988 the first (and so far only) Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was hoped that this would lead to a major breakthrough for Arab literature in the West, including Britain. But for years such a breakthrough remained elusive
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| The merchant and the genie
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There was formerly a merchant who possessed much property in lands, goods, and money, and had a great number of clerks, factors, and slaves. He was obliged from time to time to visit his correspondents on business; and one day being under the necessity of going a long journey on an affair of importance
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| America's young adults face serious economic challenges |
| Today's young adults are feeling the impact of a massive shift in the U.S. economy--changes that are documented in a new data report from Demos and an analysis of public opinion polling by The Center for American Progress. The studies were announced today with a press teleconference
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