Articles written by: The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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Thursday, 27 Jan, 2011
In the preface to his new book, The Obama Syndrome, Tariq Ali makes a curious disclaimer about the thematic scope of his most recent work. “This is a preliminary report on the first 1,000 days of the Obama administration,” Ali writes. “Nothing more.”
The transparently self-effacing description is both accurate and misleading. Ali’s work is indeed preliminary, but, by definition, so is any Obama-themed book published between now and the end of the Obama presidency. Written right ...
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Wednesday, 26 Jan, 2011
Lebanon remains in the spotlight as Najib Mikati, now officially named prime minister, tries to form a cabinet and convince the world that he was not Hezbollah’s choice for the job, at the time Washington announced its fears of the party’s dominance of the new cabinet.
Even though Mikati has repeatedly styled himself as a centrist candidate for all parties, the new prime minister will have to deal with staunch opposition—now being led by his predecessor Sa’ad Hariri. And despi...
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Tuesday, 25 Jan, 2011
Protests continue in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, demanding that the interim government—seen as too intimately connected with former President, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali—...
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Monday, 24 Jan, 2011
The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, made an announcement over the weekend, apparently intended to calm the nerves of the Lebanese populace. Having already ruled out ...
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Friday, 21 Jan, 2011
Qatar’s construction boom has attracted many foreigners, including laborers, who outnumber the small population of natives. In April 2001, just over half of the e...
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Friday, 21 Jan, 2011
Although the 39-year-old Rubio has formally been in national-level office for less than a week, speculations regarding his candidacy for the 2012 GOP Presidential ticket st...
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Thursday, 20 Jan, 2011
A judge Wednesday accepted a petition by prosecutors to conduct an investigation into the assets of former Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Tr...
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Tuesday, 18 Jan, 2011
The Middle East—rightly or wrongly—has a notorious reputation for instability, but by and large major change comes about through high-level politicking or a sensational...
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Tuesday, 18 Jan, 2011
But while the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet stalled, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)—created by the UN to try the perpetrators of the assassination of Prime ...
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Monday, 17 Jan, 2011
In the aftermath of the collapse of Saad Hariri’s coalition government, the office of Lebanese President Michael Suleiman released a statement—apparently without irony...
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