Articles written by: The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
By Kamal DibPublished by Dar al Nahar
Supported with documents and a well-scrutinized body of literature, the book does not only trace the Lebanese history back to the Pre-Great Lebanon Era, as its cover title may suggest, but rather to the nineteenth century civil war. The scientific spirit and neutrality is unmistakably evident throughout the book. However, it goes beyond pure theory to explore particular moments in Lebanese history within a broader context.
The author makes an all-out re...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
The report on the disputed city of Kirkuk, handed this week to Iraqi leaders by the UN special envoy to Iraq Staffan de Mistura, reveals a new challenge for minority Kurds in the country. It ratchets up pressures awakening their once crucial influence in the troubled Iraqi political scene. By the occasion of the delivery of the report to Iraqi leaders, the UN press release pointed out that all the Kirkuk options involve political compromise and power-sharing. Also, that all four options also tr...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
RIYADH--The brief movement was barely noticed at the time by the dignitaries in the ornate hall. But thanks to television cameras, U.S. President Barack Obama’s bow as he shook ...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
Do not be fooled by the recent surge in share prices. The depths and breadth of the current recession is as yet unfathomable for even the shrewdest of economists and investors. Un...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
By midday of Tuesday, 20 November 1979, followers of Gemhan Al–Outeiby, leader of a notorious religious insurgency, had run out of their last Kalashnikovs. They had already been...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
The EU bordering Iraq and Iran and the most populated EU member, though secular, with a Muslim majority. This was the ground breaking political scenario which seemed possible, if ...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
After four years of isolation, Syria is back from the cold. Visitors from the US Congress and Western-aligned Arab states have all recently arrived in Damascus echoing President O...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
The oversimplification that Hezbollah used to justify itself when the Egyptian authorities arrested one of Hezbollah members contradicts a host of political and legal facts, which...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
Since Egypt declared its discovery of Hezbollah’s cell, known as the cell of (Sami Shehab), analyses have varied about the expansion of Hezbollah’s activities outside its bord...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
You may know one or two things about what it is like to live in the slums, whether in Egypt or any other part of the world. You may have read about it, you may know some numbers a...
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