I feel guilty every day that I don’t write about Syria’s revolution… Continue reading
Turkey’s growing international profile has been controversial… Continue reading
Iranian speculations on Egypt’s Islamists: Shi’ite-style revolutionaries or Turkish-style democrats?
There have been various speculations in Iranian press on the significance of the Islamists’ victory and the nature of the Islamist faction in Egypt… Continue reading
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region… Continue reading
As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading
There are three arguments supporting this policy that are worth discussing in large part because… Continue reading
The uprisings that swept across the Middle East and North Africa during 2011 have largely bypassed Morocco… Continue reading
What we are seeing is a political Islamist tsunami… Continue reading
The Assad regime suffered a major shock when self-styled “Free Syrian Army” deserters firing shoulder-borne rockets and… Continue reading
Turkish government representatives insist that they want to develop good ties in all directions… Continue reading
Does this sound too extreme and alarmist?… Continue reading
In the “good old days” of Stalinist Communism, the Left would have called the Islamists, “clerical fascists”… Continue reading
What is the current political situation in Tunisia? Simple… Continue reading
How could Qatar’s foreign policy best be defined during the Arab Spring… Continue reading
The New York Times and BBC headlines on the Tunisian elections tell us it is a victory for “moderate Islamists”… Continue reading
The shadowy, scattered and underground Islamist forces have become powerful… Continue reading
Libya’s transitional leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil was quite clear about his intentions for liberated Libya… Continue reading
On September 30, 2000, state-owned France 2 Television broadcast a news report, filmed by a Palestinian cameraman, of the fatal shooting of a… Continue reading
Critics have often argued that Western nations have been hypocritical in their policies towards Bahrain… Continue reading
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