Interviews
Conversations with people intimately involved in the most important events in the region.
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Friday, 18 Nov, 2011
Daniel Yergin is a leading energy analyst and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize, is highly regarded in the oil industry. Yergin currently serves as the Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, which he co-founded, and received his PhD from Cambridge University. Yergin won the United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding" in 2007. His new book, The Quest, was published in September 2011 and has been critical...
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Tuesday, 15 Nov, 2011
The office of Professor Mohammed Morsy does not look like the lair of a man who will soon become one of Egypt’s premier political players.
About 10ft square with a pot plant in one corner and desultory views out onto nothing but a crumbling brick wall, the room belonging to the chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing is humble, if not quite Spartan.
It is probably befitting for a man whose party’s stance against fasaad, or corruption, has for decades attracted support...
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Friday, 11 Nov, 2011
Sultan Al-Qassemi, a political commentator from a new generation in the Gulf, has become a leading voice on Twitter during the Arab Spring. With thousands of tweets and fol...
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Stephen Glain is an American veteran, not of wars or military incursions, but of more than twenty years’ experience as a foreign correspondent and intrepid journalist. Stationed ...
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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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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
For the first time in eight months, the American flag was raised over the US embassy in Tripoli last month. One day earlier, on 21 September, Ambassador Gene Cretz returned t...
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Thursday, 13 Oct, 2011
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The Majalla: What makes the Egyptian Revolution different from the other Arab revolutions...
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Tuesday, 11 Oct, 2011
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The Majalla: Is it true that you oppose the cancellation of the natural gas supply agr...
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Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
A long career in the world of diplomacy did not rid Bassiouni of his understanding of the military, which he developed when he served as an intelligence officer. Later, Bassiou...
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Monday, 19 Sep, 2011
Malika Zeghal is the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard University. She is a political scientist who studies religion thro...
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