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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
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The Fall of Christian Lebanon

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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Will Kirkuk confine Kurdish dreams in Iraq?

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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The Future of US-Saudi Relations

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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DEBT: The Poison and the Antidote

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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Prince Naif Ben Abdul Aziz

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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The fading hopes of Turkey’s EU membership

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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A Non-Negotiable Friendship

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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The Party versus the Nationalist State

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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The Hezbollah/Egypt Situation

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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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
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Going into Cairo’s Slums

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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