Articles inside the category: Inside Out
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Friday, 16 Dec, 2011
Much to the credit of Israeli analysts and politicians, who were arguably the first bunch to predict the revitalizing effects of Arab Spring on political Islam, it is now indisputable that the Arab Awakening has empowered, and will continue to empower, Islamist forces in the Middle East and North Africa; so much so that it is no exaggeration to say that governance in the 'new Middle East' will have a strong Islamic flavor. In course of a month, elections in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia have empow...
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Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011
Since his troubled reelection in 2009, reforming the economy has been the key objective of the President Ahmadinejad government. In spite of widespread objections, for example, Ahmadinejad took the bold step and imposed the lifting of the subsidies in an attempt to simultaneously rationalise the economy and disenfranchise his middle-class critics by promising more targeted subsidies for the lower classes that support his government.
In a way, the international community ought to be thanke...
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Monday, 28 Nov, 2011
Last week I was in Dubai where I managed to talk to a group of Iranian holidaymakers about the current socio-political situation in Iran. To my utter disbelief, when I asked th...
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Monday, 14 Nov, 2011
Over the past couple of weeks, speculations about an American or Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities have dominated news headlines around the globe. With the ...
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Monday, 31 Oct, 2011
In conversation with eminent Chinese scholars, Professor Li Weijian and Professor Ye Qing, The Majalla discusses China, the Middle East and the Arab World Transformation.
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Wednesday, 12 Oct, 2011
Since the end of the Cold War, India's Middle East diplomacy has undergone some major and indeed radical changes. As the direct consequence of a generational change in its ...
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A combination of domestic, regional, and international factors were at play when Turkey decided to forgo the "isolationism and dependency" of its pre-World War Two and Cold W...
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Wednesday, 21 Sep, 2011
The idea of a Middle East nuclear weapons free zone (MENWFZ) was first mooted by Egypt and Iran in 1974. They jointly sponsored the first UN General Assembly resoluti...
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Tuesday, 13 Sep, 2011
After years of social disorder, sectarian conflicts, and indeed national humiliation, Iraqi nationalism is once again emerging as a strong political ideology to the extent th...
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Wednesday, 27 Jul, 2011
In a televised speech marking the fifth anniversary of the Second Lebanon War on Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah, in line with his secretary comments a week earlier, warned Israel ag...
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