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How One Arab Swallow Does Not Make a Spring

What was the main factor leading to failure or success of the Arab revolts… Read more

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Iranian Protests • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • Politics • Syrian Revolution • Yemen 
Posted on Sun, October 13, 2013 at 14:13 pm CEST
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If Libya’s U.S.-Client Prime Minister Can be Kidnapped by Al-Qaeda, Why Should Anyone Trust America?

Twelve years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda still isn’t defeated… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Libya • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, October 2, 2013 at 11:22 am CEST
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The “Arab Spring” is now officially over

Al-Qaeda linked terrorism threatens Tunisia’s economy and security… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Terrorism • Jasmine Revolution • Tunisia 
Posted on Sun, September 29, 2013 at 00:01 am CEST
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Mr. Nabil Fahmy, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Nabil Fahmy, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Egypt • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, September 27, 2013 at 16:33 pm CEST
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Mr. Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, President of the Republic of Tunisia, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, President of the Republic of Tunisia, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Tunisia • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, September 7, 2013 at 15:08 pm CEST
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The Deliberate Muslim Brotherhood Violence in Cairo Fostering the “Victimization and Martyrdom” Narrative

Muslim Brothers’ desire for death through self-sacrifice… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Arab Spring • Copts • Egypt • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamization • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, July 5, 2013 at 22:44 pm CEST
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Dismiss the Egyptian People and Elect a New One

Starvation is the unstated subject of this week’s military coup… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Economy • Egypt • Politics • Qatar • Saudi Arabia 
Posted on Wed, July 3, 2013 at 00:22 am CEST
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Egyptian Armed Forces First Statement: “Call for Meeting the Demands of the People”

Tahrir Square erupts in joy after Egypt armed forces first statement… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Tue, July 2, 2013 at 22:40 pm CEST
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Second Statement: Army Says It Won’t Take Power…Yet

The Egyptian army says it will not take power after all… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, July 2, 2013 at 22:21 pm CEST
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What Now in Egypt? Informed Speculations

These are speculations I’m thinking through but want to share them with you… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, July 2, 2013 at 21:57 pm CEST
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In Egypt, Army Threatens Coup while U.S. Policy has backed the Regime

Is the one-year-old experiment in Egyptian democracy going to end?… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, June 30, 2013 at 20:59 pm CEST
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Fools Rush In Where Statesmen Fear to Tread

What the heck is the U.S. line on the Middle East… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Obamaism • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, February 14, 2013 at 15:38 pm CET
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Obama Says: I’m Backing Democracy and Human Rights; Egyptian Human Rights’ Activist: Not True!

We are continually told that Obama’s policy has been supportive of democracy and human rights, but this is not true at all… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, February 14, 2013 at 14:47 pm CET
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Open letter to Obama: You’re not Backing Democracy and Human Rights

Open letter to President Obama by Bahieddin Hassan… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Obamaism • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, February 9, 2013 at 00:36 am CET
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Arab Moderation Is Murdered: An Assassination in Tunisia

People who believe the Arabic-speaking world is heading toward democracy don’t understand that Islamist forces are unleashed quite willing to engage in violence until total triumph… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Tunisia 
Posted on Sun, December 9, 2012 at 15:55 pm CET
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The Interview: “Explaining the Latest Middle East Developments” (No Satire)

Revised and updated version of an interview Barry Rubin gave recently… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, November 21, 2012 at 15:26 pm CET
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The Middle East Crises of 2013 Are Already In Dress Rehearsal

If 2011 was the year of the Arab Spring, 2013 looks to be the year of the Arab Fall… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Fundamentalism • Politics • Security and Defense • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, August 12, 2012 at 11:05 am CEST
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Egypt: There Goes the Army; There Goes the Free Media; There Goes Egypt

So can you write “Arab Spring,” free elections, democracy in Egypt, and such things 100 times?… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • The Media 
Posted on Fri, July 13, 2012 at 21:59 pm CEST
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Israel is in Good Shape Because So Many Others Decided Not to Be

The more I think about Israel’s security situation at this moment, the better it looks… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Israel • Politics • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Mon, June 18, 2012 at 20:21 pm CEST
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Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring

Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • History • Iran • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sun, June 17, 2012 at 18:35 pm CEST
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Clearest and Briefest Possible Summary of the Situation in Syria

There are three possible outcomes to the Syrian civil war… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Politics • Security and Defense • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Fri, June 15, 2012 at 21:27 pm CEST
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Court Dissolves Egyptian Parliament; Army Takes Over; Civil War?

The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has invalidated the parliamentary election there… Continue reading

Topics: Algeria • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • History • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Fri, June 15, 2012 at 20:57 pm CEST
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The Wild Card in Arab “Democratic” Politics: Extra-Parliamentary Violence

Consider just a small part of what’s gone on in Tunisia, a relatively moderate country where the radical Islamists “only” got 40 percent of the vote… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Religion • Salafism • Tunisia 
Posted on Mon, May 28, 2012 at 20:35 pm CEST
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Bush and Obama Together At Last: In Misunderstanding the Middle East

In one of his first statements since leaving office, former President George W. Bush remarked on Middle East developments in an article… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Politics • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, May 6, 2012 at 15:26 pm CEST
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U.S. Syrian Policy: A Massacre in Progress; A Disgrace in the Making

U.S. policy toward Syria is turning into a scandal on both strategic and humanitarian grounds… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Diplomacy • Human Rights • Security and Defense • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Nations