ISNA News Agency reported last month that Google Plus, Google’s recently-launched social network, has been blocked by the authorities… Continue reading
This week the conservative daily Khorasan published a letter sent by an Iranian housewife to President Ahmadinejad… Continue reading
Rania Rifaat is the ultimate secular-oriented, social media-using, Egyptian “Arab Spring” activist… Continue reading
Where’s the outrage? Where’s the policy shift?… Continue reading
Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero; Fouad Ajami isn’t… Continue reading
With demonstrators back on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Western media outlets once again are focused on the demands of urban protesters… Continue reading
Foreign and defense policies did not figure prominently in the recent general election in Turkey… Continue reading
Wow, watch the less-than-four-minute video below and you get the flavor of the Middle East and the “Arab Spring” in every respect… Continue reading
Polarizing the society over religious and cultural identities has been the power tactic of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) almost all along… Continue reading
In the general election of June 12, 2011, candidates backed by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) won 36 seats in Turkey… Continue reading
Where does Tunisia, the unlikely igniter of the Middle Eastern upheavals, stand on the democratic transition scale… Continue reading
In the absence of U.S. leadership, others want to direct the Middle East… Continue reading
Twenty years ago, I was a school kid chanting with my peers, “Our leader forever, the father, Hafez Assad!” Back then, I could not have imagined… Continue reading
The June 12 general election was historic as it was the first general election in Turkey over which the shadow of the military… Continue reading
At 12 June’s general election, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development party (AKP) pulled off a rare political hat trick… Continue reading
Is there a pattern here? I guess I’m going to be writing a series of “things keep getting worse” articles for some time to come… Continue reading
This assessment is a bit more optimistic than mine, suggesting ways to limit the new government’s power… Continue reading
Dit boek van Abigail R. Esman beweegt moeiteloos heen en weer tussen haar diepe persoonlijke ervaringen… Lees verder
By the end of 2011 more than 250 million people in the Middle East may well be living under what are in reality anti-American Islamist governments… Continue reading
The AKP got almost everything it wanted. It will be in power for four more years, infiltrating institutions, producing a new constitution… Continue reading
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is expected to return to office for a third consecutive term as Turks began voting… Continue reading
A remarkable amount of what’s written on the Middle East in the mass media is nonsensical… Continue reading
Because Turkey’s election Sunday is of such huge importance, not only for Turkey but for the region as a whole, Western interests, Israel, and… Continue reading
When I was getting a great education they made us read Shakespeare and Dickens; Wordsworth and Keats; Hemmingway and Faulkner… Continue reading
Mubarak is gone, but the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt will not lead to an ‘Arab Summer’… Continue reading
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