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Monday, 20 Jul, 2009
The motives that lie behind the demonstrations, confrontations and strikes which the southern governorates have lately witnessed are uncertain. Analyses of such events are conflicting. It is not clear whether they involve a liberation movement longing for independence or public discontent originating in the difficult economic circumstances in Yemen. Regional interferences are also a possibility not to be excluded in the evocation of rebellion and sectarianism in Yemen. Regarding this last aspec...
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Monday, 13 Jul, 2009
The Lebanese parliamentary elections ended more than a month ago, and today the Lebanese people are going through another tough experience while trying to form the government in the wake of these elections. It is true that the "March 14" Alliance achieved victory, but the "March 8" Alliance, led by Hezbollah, still has the ability to exert power, an ability which was not granted by the constitution nor the law, but one that the party has seized through the power of its weapons in the past f...
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Monday, 29 Jun, 2009
A Window of Opportunity Despite the Disappointment, There is Hope Safa Haeri – Iranian-born career journalist living in France. Creator of Iran Press Service, he covered th...
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Monday, 22 Jun, 2009
The issue of Islam and Islamic movements is a thorny one which has witnessed widespread debate since the early 1980s over whether these movements and their branches represent the ...
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Monday, 15 Jun, 2009
The hoped-for transition that would enhance the internal Iranian performance is to regain the reform-oriented discourse within the project of Iran's reconciliation with itself on ...
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Days before the date of announcing the election results in Lebanon, the political scene seems to be dominated by differences between confused political sects, and the ones that ha...
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Monday, 25 May, 2009
There are three scenarios for Iraq. Even the optimistic one is cautious, and they all embrace a tendency towards pessimism and a serious concern about the future and stability of ...
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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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Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
Iran is “Dangerous” Even to Itself. We should not allow any Iranian banner to be raised in our countries. El-Musawi says. The hard-line path in Iran found its golden la...
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