Posted on Fri, March 9, 2012 at 20:16 pm CET
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Free Markets Can Transform the Middle East

As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region’s well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Economy • Egypt • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, March 2, 2012 at 22:46 pm CET
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The New Middle East: Arab versus non-Arab Muslims; Sunni versus Shia

The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start… Continue reading

Topics: Politics • Religion • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, February 23, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Is Egypt about to Elect an Islamist President?

Registering to run for president of Egypt will begin March 10. The military moved it up from April 15 to show that it is handing over power to the civilians… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Mon, February 20, 2012 at 19:19 pm CET
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A New Year of ‘Dhimmitude’ for Egypt’s Copts

2012 appears to be unfolding as the “year of dhimmitude” for Egypt’s Christians… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Copts • Egypt • Human Rights • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Sun, February 19, 2012 at 15:11 pm CET
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The Hamas Split and the Palestinian Political Mess

There’s a serious split in Hamas reflecting the growing civil war among Islamists along Sunni-Shia lines… Continue reading

Topics: Fatah • Hamas • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Palestinian Authority • Peace Process • Politics • Religion 
Posted on Sat, February 18, 2012 at 22:51 pm CET
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From Al-Masry Al-Youm: South Sudan FM: relations with Israel no threat to Cairo

South Sudan’s friendly relationship with Israel will not pose any threat to Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Egypt • Israel • Politics • South Sudan 
Posted on Fri, February 10, 2012 at 17:56 pm CET
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The Essence of Contemporary Leftism And Islamism Revealed: Freedom or Slavery to Those Who Claim to Know Best?

This fascinating exchange tells us not only about the contemporary state of Islam, Islamism, and the political issues involving them but also about the debates and conflicts shaping Western civilization today… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Human Rights • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Religion 
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 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 24, 2012 at 20:26 pm CET
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Where the “Counter-Obama” View of the Middle East is Right and Where It’s Wrong

Diehl’s challenge to the critics of the mainstream thinking on the Middle East is very serious… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, January 24, 2012 at 19:31 pm CET
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The Unvarnished Reality of Contemporary U.S.-Israel Relations

Do not speak of it in public. Do not expect any Israeli official to admit it. But Israel is facing an issue unlike anything it has had to deal with during the past 50 years… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Israel • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
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 18:12 pm CET
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Are You Left-Wing or Right-Wing? Hopefully, I’m Honest-and-Accurate Wing

I ran into an older, retired Israeli colleague who is a fine scholar in his field and agreed to have coffee in a nearby Tel Aviv cafe. In the ensuing conversation I learned some key things about why current intellectual and political discussion is such a wreck… Continue reading

Topics: Liberalism • Miscellaneous • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness • Politics • Western Culture 
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 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 21:05 pm CET
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The Three Rules of Western Discourse and Why The Media Must Always Blame Israel

It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, how Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Egypt • Media Bias • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness • Western Culture 
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 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 Sat, January 7, 2012 at 15:09 pm CET
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Identity Among Middle East Christians

In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Copts • Culture • Egypt • Human Rights • Iraq • Lebanon • Religion • Syria • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, January 6, 2012 at 16:47 pm CET
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Hamas Chief: “Islamic Spring”; Brotherhood Chief: Caliphate Soon; Western Media: Islamists Moderate, Israel Bad

A 27-year-old American-Israeli law school student decides he’s going to go to Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Hamas • Islamism • Media Bias • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Wed, January 4, 2012 at 21:47 pm CET
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Sunni versus Shia: The Middle East’s New Strategic Conflict

Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Iraq • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Lebanon • Libya War • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syrian Revolution • The Middle East