Articles inside the category: Between You and Me
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Thursday, 9 Feb, 2012
The Palestinian Authority (PA) power-sharing agreement brokered in Doha on Monday comes at an unfortunate time in Middle Eastern affairs. While all ink is reserved for the crisis in Syria and fears over Iran’s nuclear program, there is little left over for a satisfactory treatment of the small but significant steps being made in the area of reconciliation between rival political parties Fatah and Hamas.
Though we remain skeptical of its prospects for success and longevity, Palestinian r...
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While Arabs throughout the MENA region are taking to the streets to demand control over their own destinies, Texas Representative Ron Paul and his supporters in America are fomenting their own revolution, a revolution in foreign policy.
President Obama had it right when he reached out to the Arab and Muslim communities in his famous Cairo speech in the summer of 2009, appearing to signify the start of a new relationship and at the same time, rejecting the legacy of Bush II.
An exceedin...
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Wednesday, 25 Jan, 2012
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally left Yemen, and now the Yemenis along with the international community must make sure that he does not return.
According to media re...
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Friday, 13 Jan, 2012
US President, Barack Obama, unveiled last week the US Department of Defense’s January 2012 defense strategy, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century De...
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The escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear program will not have a happy ending. Every conventional course of action that could be taken by western policymakers and negotiator...
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Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011
The popular demands for democracy and economic security emerging from the Arab Spring have finally reached Palestine. Responding to pressure from many Palestinians to reconcile...
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There is something deeply unsettling about the recent events in Tehran this week.
In response to the alleged government-sanctioned sacking of the British embassy by an esti...
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Friday, 25 Nov, 2011
On Monday, 21 November, after nearly a month of deliberations, leaders from the first, second and fourth largest political parties—Ennahda, the Congress for the Republic (CPR...
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Thursday, 17 Nov, 2011
In a meeting last week between Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and political party representatives from Tunisia’s new constituent assembly, President Abbas reportedly r...
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Friday, 28 Oct, 2011
As predicted, the moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, has won more votes than any other political party competing for seats in the Tunisian constituent assembly election. Yet, ...
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