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May 3, 2014

The Israeli recipe to prolong the conflict

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that he has discovered the recipe to ensure that legitimacy is given to his refusal to withdraw from the West Bank while, at...

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May 3, 2014

Who are the 'political prisoners' in Saudi and Iran?

Both Iran and Saudi Arabia maintain fairly poor reputations in the Western world for their approach to human rights. While Iran remains isolated through sanctions and is frequently vilified,...

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May 3, 2014

Is Africa rejecting Al-Sisi?

Last week the chairman of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council Paul Lolo Bulus recommended that the African Union (AU) should not send a delegation to monitor the...

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May 3, 2014

Reconciliation in search of a political programme

Since the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations stalled in 2010, the Palestinian cause seemed to be let down in two aspects: the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas and the futile negotiations with...

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May 3, 2014

A vote for Al-Maliki is a vote to divide Iraq

During his eight years in power, Nouri Al-Maliki was not as successful in anything as he was in the Division of Iraq project. He worked hard to fragment Iraq,...

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May 3, 2014

Good and bad lessons from the Brotherhood's crisis in Egypt

There seems to be a consensus in the debates that I have heard recently regarding the current Egyptian issues. Many seem to believe that the revolutionaries made a critical...

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May 3, 2014

We have witnessed penetration by Israel, not normalisation with it

Our national elites like to call relations between the Arab countries and Israel “normalisation”, but the truth is that what these countries are being subject to due to their...

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May 3, 2014

Christians in Egypt torn between church and citizenship

The January 25th Revolution in 2011 represented a real challenge to the structure of tyranny in Egypt at all levels, especially to the dominance of the Coptic Church and...

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May 3, 2014

Harvesting the sweet Golan apples under the bitterness of occupation and civil war

Nazem Khater, an aging apple farmer sits on his veranda looking out at the agricultural lands of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan. His father, and his father’s father,...

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May 3, 2014

From Democracy to Military Dictatorship: Egypt 2013 = Chile 1973

For months, leading up to the climax July 3, 2013, the Egyptian theatre was being set for a melodrama no less sensational than the one that unfolded on the...

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