Articles written by: The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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Friday, 13 Jan, 2012
A Democratic Future for Yemen
Tawakul Karman, chaired by Ginny Hill
Chatham House
“With you we will build a new world,” Karman told the London audience as she urged them to help freeze Saleh’s assets—the assets of his regime and the assets of his family. Money is power for Karman and many Yemenis, and that power was used to sustain the violence committed against the Yemeni public during their struggles since January 2011.
According to the account Karman gave ...
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Wednesday, 4 Jan, 2012
Intense dispute has surrounded the implementation of an Arab League initiative to end the Syrian crisis since a delegation of Arab League observers arrived in Syria on 26 December. Opposition groups and activists inside and outside Syria have criticized the effectiveness of the mission, labelling it ineffective and practically redundant. The most salient criticisms feature accusations that the visiting team is too small for the task at hand—numbering less than 100 observers—and that the ...
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Friday, 23 Dec, 2011
Nuclear Fatwa: Religion and Politics in Iran’s Proliferation Strategy
Michael Eisenstadt and Mehdi Khalaji
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Because the su...
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Thursday, 22 Dec, 2011
Internet bloggers have become the celebrities of the Arab Spring. The names of blogs and bloggers like Arabawy, Sand Monkey and Mona Eltahawy publishing in Arabic, English, Fre...
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Wednesday, 21 Dec, 2011
Earlier this year, Majalla published a review of Hitch-22, the prescient memoir of Christopher Hitchens titled to reference the bible of the absurd, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22....
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Tuesday, 20 Dec, 2011
Barely 48 hours after the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, a crisis—that could precipitate a resurgence in sectarian tensions—has hit the country. The ministry of interio...
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Friday, 16 Dec, 2011
"Both sides are dangerous," warned one Damascus citizen weeks ago. "Lots of people are armed. There is less security. People go around worried what will happen on the street."
T...
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Turkey and the Middle East
Internal Confidence, External Assertiveness
Chatham House Briefing Paper
Fadi Hakura, November 2011
During a transitional period for the Midd...
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The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Baath Party.
Nokalaos van Dam
I.B. Taurus 2011
This book, now in its fourth volume, is a thoro...
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Andam Omar, like many young men in their twenties, enjoys the ever-developing face of Erbil, the de facto capital of Kurdish Iraq. At the new—and expansive—Tablo Mall he bo...
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