Articles written by: The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Iran goes to the polls tomorrow in the first national election since the bloodshed and chaos that followed the presidential elections of 2009 and the subsequent suppression of the Green Movement. This time, although Iranians are electing members of parliament, the elections have exposed a damaging split at the top of the country’s conservative establishment.
The last year has seen a public rift emerge between supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah ...
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Asef Shawkat began his political career as a relative outsider in a government dominated by the Al-Assad family, neither a member of the Assads or one of their influential Makhlouf cousins. Through his marriage to President Bashar Assad’s older sister Bushra, he ascended to the ‘inner circle’ of power in Syria after a turn of events that resembled a combination of The Godfatherand a soap opera plot.
Born into a middle class Alawi family in the town of Tartous in 1950, he joined the ...
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Friday, 24 Feb, 2012
“The Not-So-Great Game”
John Feffer
Foreign Policy in Focus
February 2012
The Great Game of the 19th century involved the British, French, Chinese, Ottoman, and Ru...
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Thursday, 23 Feb, 2012
The death of veteran Sunday Times war reporter Marie Colvin and Paris Match photographer Remi Ochlik has re-focused the attention of the Western media on the crisis in Syria an...
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
The veteran American reporter Anthony Shadid died on Thursday while on assignment in Syria for The New York Times. He was a well-respected, award-winning Middle East correspond...
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Thursday, 16 Feb, 2012
Iran-watchers were warned to expect a new announcement regarding its nuclear activities by President Ahmadinejad last weekend, but yesterday’s announcement proved to be nothi...
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Wednesday, 15 Feb, 2012
On 14 January 2011, the first president to fall at the hands of protests in the Middle East departed Tunisia. The next twelve months have since become a historic period of profou...
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Tuesday, 14 Feb, 2012
“In the last 23 years, from the day I was stripped of my judgeship to the years of doing battle in the revolutionary courts of Tehran, I had repeated one refrain: an interpre...
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Friday, 10 Feb, 2012
The Maliki Dilemma
The National Interest
1 February 2012
Kenneth M.Pollack
There may be new hope for stability in Iraq’s political future with the recent changes in ...
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Friday, 10 Feb, 2012
Syrian state television has reported deadly bomb attacks in the city of Aleppo, claiming that the blasts have killed at least 25 people and injured 175 more. Two car bombs repo...
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