Posted on Thu, February 16, 2012 at 00:36 am CET
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Good-Bye, Middle East! Quietly, Liberals and Minorities are Fleeing

I wonder how much higher are the number of visa applications from Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey to North America, Europe, and Australia… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Democracy • Human Rights • Islamism • Salafism • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, February 10, 2012 at 00:07 am CET
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Arab Liberals Lament: Here’s How the Muslim Brotherhood is Fooling the West

Since we can’t get good coverage of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the Western media, it’s necessary to turn to the Islamists’ intended victims — Arab liberals — to get a better picture… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • The Media 
Posted on Thu, February 9, 2012 at 23:04 pm CET
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A House Divided Against Itself: The Deteriorating State of Media Freedom in Turkey

Most international attention has focused on the more than 100 journalists who are now in jail in Turkey as a result of what they have written or said… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Ergenekon • Human Rights • The Media • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, February 6, 2012 at 15:07 pm CET
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Iran and the uprisings in the Arab world: Islamic Awakening and Youths

An international conference titled Islamic Awakening and Youths convened in Tehran last week… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Arab Spring • Global Islam • Iran 
Posted on Mon, February 6, 2012 at 14:29 pm CET
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Egypt: When the Moderates are Radicals You’re in Trouble

The Middle East is so strange in Western terms, so different, and having its own unique history and institutions that unless you are really aware of those differences please pick something else to be an expert on… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Islamic Fundamentalism 
Posted on Tue, January 31, 2012 at 02:21 am CET
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Ankara and Baghdad: A Parting of Ways?

Until now, Turkey’s presence in Iraq has generally been encouraged by all major Iraqi groups… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Iraq • Kurdish People • PKK • Politics • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012 at 16:51 pm CET
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America and the Arab Spring

A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Iraq • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel • Jordan • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • Salafism • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy • Yemen 
Posted on Mon, January 23, 2012 at 16:37 pm CET
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Islamist Parties Dominate Egypt’s Parliament

We’re starting to get a good picture of what the lower house of Egypt’s parliament will be like… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, January 21, 2012 at 16:25 pm CET
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Arabism Is Dead! Long Live…?

Many of the arguments and assumptions that governed the Arabic-speaking world for six decades have simply vanished… Continue reading

Topics: Arab League • Arab World • Democracy • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Politics • Religion • Syria 
Posted on Fri, January 20, 2012 at 00:57 am CET
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Who’s Winning in the Middle East? Everyone Outside the West Knows It’s The Islamists

And the Americans brought them to power… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Religion • Security and Defense • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, January 19, 2012 at 17:09 pm CET
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Iran: After Posing Nude, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani No Longer Welcome in her Home Country

The controversy sparked by Aliaa Magda ElMahdy after posting a nude photo she took of herself on her blog is followed by another controversial posting of a nude photograph… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Democracy • France • Human Rights • Iran • Religion • Sharia Law • Shi'ism 
Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:56 pm CET
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Israel’s Options as Muslim Brotherhood Gains Power

The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Israel • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Security and Defense 
Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:53 pm CET
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The Middle East in 2012: The Year of Living Dangerously

The region-wide upheaval known as “the Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • The Middle East 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 19:33 pm CET
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Ex-Muslim Sister gives insight into Brothers’s Subjugation, Discrimination of Women and Polygamy

In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Global Islam • History • Human Rights • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:49 pm CET
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Iran: “Big brother” comes to internet cafés, “national internet network” to be launched soon

The Iranian cyber police released new regulations imposing severe restrictions on Iran’s internet cafés… Continue reading

Topics: Cyber War • Democracy • Human Rights • Iran • Shi'ism • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:48 pm CET
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Iran: Severe Conflict between Government, leading Film Industry Figures

leading figures in Iran’s film industry released a memorandum of opinion condemning the Islamic Guidance Ministry’s decision to close the House of Cinema, the main trade union for those employed in the local film industry… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Human Rights • Iran • Shi'ism • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET
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Iran’s 2012 Parliamentary Elections: first vetting stage ends; Khamenei calls for mass participation

Iran’s top regime officials are stepping up efforts to ensure the highest possible voter turnout in the March 2 elections. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for mass participation in the elections… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Iran • Politics • Shi'ism 
Posted on Sat, January 14, 2012 at 15:20 pm CET
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Egypt: If Tourists Can Wear Bikinis But Local Women Must Wear Chadors Does That Prove the Muslim Brotherhood is Moderate?

What if a democratically elected government decides to enforce such a system in a law legally passed by a democratically elected government? I guess that’s just democracy in action… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Thu, January 12, 2012 at 20:44 pm CET
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Friedman Cheers as Egyptians Are Enslaved

Many in the West have so acted toward Egypt during the last year… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Egyptian Coptic billionaire faces trial for contempt of Islam

A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sun, January 8, 2012 at 21:24 pm CET
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Such a “Great” Idea It Can Now Be Proclaimed But Not Criticized: Obama Supports the Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama Administration, as I’ve written for the last year, is favoring radical Islamist forces… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • The Media • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, January 6, 2012 at 17:33 pm CET
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Goodbye Democracy: My Political Analysis is Banned By A European Government’s Computer Program As “Hate Speech”

Western democracies have finally accepted censorship based on the clever lie that they are only protecting people from racism… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Europe • Global Islam • Human Rights • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness 
Posted on Fri, December 30, 2011 at 00:17 am CET
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After the “Arab Spring”: Will Freedom Take Hold in the Arab World?

At the end of 2011 is anyone in the Arabic-speaking world better off as a result of the upheavals of the Arab Spring… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • Barry Rubin • Democracy • Egypt • Human Rights • Libya • The Middle East • Tunisia • Yemen 
Posted on Tue, December 27, 2011 at 18:41 pm CET
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Tunisia: There’s Still Hope for Democracy Because The Majority Doesn’t Want Islamism

Is Tunisia, the Arab world’s historically most moderate country in social and intellectual terms, headed for Islamism… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Tunisia 
Posted on Sun, December 25, 2011 at 22:53 pm CET
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Turkey’s 2012 Re-Adjustment to Post-“Zero Problems” in the Aftermath of the Arab Awakenings

Turkey’s emergence in the 21st century as a Middle Eastern power has been in the making for the last decade… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Diplomacy • Politics • The Middle East • Turkey