Articles written by: The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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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 nothing more than another gesture for diplomatic and domestic consumption.
The substance of the announcement in a speech by the president was that Iranian scientists and engineers had succeeded in loading fuel into the research reactor at Tehran, using uranium enriched to 20 percent with Iran’s own centrifuges.
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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 profound transition and evolution for the region. It is a movement still in the process of realization.
It all began when, on 17 December 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi—a fruit vendor driven to desperate measures by corruption and abuse endemic across Tunisia—set the whole region aflame by dousing himself with paint thinner ...
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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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Thursday, 9 Feb, 2012
The Syrian city of Homs is being steadily pulverized by artillery and rocket fire as the violent crackdown by Bashar Al-Assad’s government intensifies in the face of diplomat...
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Wednesday, 8 Feb, 2012
Nabil Al-Arabi was poised to crown a long career as an international lawyer and civil servant in Egypt’s foreign ministry after he accepted the position of Foreig...
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The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East
Matteo Legrenzi
I B Tauris, 2011
In ...
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Thursday, 2 Feb, 2012
The tragedy in Egypt’s Port Said Stadium exposes the divisions still gripping the country a year after the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak. With the death toll now close t...
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Thursday, 26 Jan, 2012
After months of reneged promises and prevarication, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally transferred his powers to his deputy and jetted off into exile, reportedly in Oman....
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