Articles written by: Jacqueline Shoen
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Thursday, 15 Nov, 2012
Following Barack Obama’s second electoral victory for president of the United States, Tony Blair—former UK prime minister and Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East (comprised of the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia)—announced that Obama’s second term would provide an opportunity to revive peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
It is a rare moment when Blair appears in the mainstream media; it is so infrequent, in fact, that I had nearly forgott...
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As an American expat, America’s role and reputation in the international arena is of crucial importance to me. Like my president, I believe in America’s ability to lead, and I value a multilateral foreign policy that seeks to build international consensus. International law and human rights, in my opinion, ought to inform that policy. Only in this way can the United States succeed as a leader, one that leads by setting a good example and by deferring to other leaders when the time calls ...
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Thursday, 13 Sep, 2012
With the Middle East’s largest Christian community, Lebanon is an ideal place from which to address the entire region.
Due to arrive on Friday, 14 September and stay for thre...
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Wednesday, 5 Sep, 2012
Presidential elections in the United States are a disgraceful farce. Every four years, I feel more and more dejected about the process and my stake in it.
The rise of Super PAC...
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
Eighteen months after Mohammad Bouazizi set himself on fire, igniting region-wide uprisings, I am still coming across articles authored by Arab women lamenting the failure of these...
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Tuesday, 21 Aug, 2012
American journalist, Robert D. Kaplan, recently wrote an opinion piece for the US security intelligence firm STRATFOR entitled “Good Mideast Dictators.”
In it, Kaplan defen...
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Wednesday, 15 Aug, 2012
The situation in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is dire and someone needs to do something about it.
Last week, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land reissued thei...
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Friday, 27 Jul, 2012
The detainment last week of New Zealand filmmaker, Sharon Ward, by Libyan security personnel is one example of many that highlights a collective feeling of anxiety over internati...
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Monday, 23 Jul, 2012
Days after it was formed on 27 February 2011 in Benghazi, the National Transitional Council declared itself to be the sole political body representing Libya and the Libyan people. ...
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Tuesday, 17 Jul, 2012
When Mr. Mohammed Al-Sowan, head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Justice and Development party, told me with surprising confidence last week that Libya’s Islamist parties would...
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