Posted on Thu, April 19, 2012 at 21:41 pm CEST
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Who Gets to be the Caliph?

Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • History • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Ottoman Empire • Religion • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Wahhabism 
Posted on Thu, April 19, 2012 at 14:34 pm CEST
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The Piety Premium of Islamic Bonds

Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Malaysia • Pakistan • Qatar • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Tue, March 6, 2012 at 23:39 pm CET
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How the U.S. Army Sees The Arabs, Islam, and Middle Eastern Societies

What do you tell soldiers who are risking their lives on Middle East battlefields about the people they are fighting for and against simultaneously?… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Culture • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Maghreb • Political Correctness • Religion • Security and Defense • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Fri, October 21, 2011 at 23:37 pm CEST
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind

Far from being absurd aberrations to be dismissed, such accounts… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism 
Posted on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:00 am CEST
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Obama’s Muslim Outreach 2.0: Doing business with the Muslim Brotherhood

President Obama’s latest paean to what he calls “the Muslim world,” delivered at the State Department today, was an exercise in whistling past the… Continue reading

Topics: Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, April 16, 2011 at 22:12 pm CEST
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Explaining the Middle East to President Obama In One Sentence

How would you explain the Middle East to President Obama in one sentence? Here’s my take… Continue reading

Topics: Islamic Countries • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Tue, March 22, 2011 at 17:01 pm CET
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Building the New Mid-East

Today’s cartoon is from twenty years ago this month! Back then the media and all the pundits explained that as soon as the dust of war… Continue reading

Topics: Islamic Countries • Satire • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, February 25, 2011 at 22:17 pm CET
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Changes in the Middle East? Much More Never Changes at All

In 1938 the Saudi diplomat Hafiz Wahbah secretly met with Zionist leader (and future Israeli prime minister) David Ben-Gurion… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamic Countries • Israel • Palestine Papers • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, February 20, 2011 at 17:18 pm CET
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Iran and the post-Mubarak “New Middle East”

Iran’s conservative media gave extensive coverage of President Mubarak’s resignation, claiming that the fall of the Egyptian president heralds the dawn of… Continue reading

Topics: Egyptian Revolution • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, December 19, 2010 at 00:26 am CET
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Iranian Lawmakers to Join Asia to Gaza Convoy in Syria

Seven Iranian lawmakers are to join the Gaza-bound Asian aid convoy in Syria, Iranian Students News Agency [IRNA] reported last Tuesday. The Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan arrived in Iran on Wednesday is to pass Turkey and Syria to reach respectively… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Gaza Flotillas and Convoys • Global Islam • Humanitarian Aid • Iran 
Posted on Fri, October 29, 2010 at 19:17 pm CEST
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Human Rights In the Middle East

There is only one country in the Middle East that recognizes Feminists, Christians, Professors for Academic Freedom and Gays as having human rights. There is only one nation in the entire Middle East which respects their right to live openly as… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Human Rights • Islamic Countries • Satire 
Posted on Mon, August 9, 2010 at 12:05 pm CEST
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Poll Shows the Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion

As long as there is a huge gap between the actual Middle East and the fantasy Middle East so dear to many Western academics, journalists, and diplomats, the region will remain… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Iran • Islamic Countries • Jordan • Lebanon • Morocco • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Sun, November 15, 2009 at 15:27 pm CET
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Turkey’s policy is changing

In an editorial published on November 3 2009, the Iranian conservative daily Keyhan addressed the changes in Turkey’s policy and its deteriorating relationship with Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Turkey