Interviews
Conversations about world issues and events with those directly or indirectly involved with them.
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Tuesday, 11 Jan, 2011
Born in Medina, Jamal A. Khashoggi, 52, is one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent and outspoken journalists. Controversial at times, he set perhaps a world record for the shortest tenure as a newspaper editor-in-chief: 52 days. That was in 2003, when he was fired from Al-Watan after editorials criticizing the country’s religious police and the narrow-mindedness of some religious figures.
Khashoggi, who received his BA from Indiana State University, went on to become advisor to Princ...
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Wednesday, 22 Dec, 2010
Bruce Riedel is a former CIA officer and currently a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Riedel was a senior adviser to three US Presidents on South Asia and the Middle East. In 2009, he chaired the Obama Administration’s inter-agency review of policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan. Riedel is also the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future (2008). In his upcoming book Deadly Embrace (December 2010), Riedel reco...
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Thursday, 16 Dec, 2010
Stephen Walt, world renowned professor of international affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, met with The Majalla to discuss one of the key security issues...
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Friday, 26 Nov, 2010
The birth of the internet in 1989 transformed the underpinning of our world. The capabilities of the global network in communication as well as governance revolutionized and alte...
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Monday, 22 Nov, 2010
With economic success at home, Turkey’s government has been flexing its muscles on the world stage and Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems likely to win a third term as prime minister ne...
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Thursday, 11 Nov, 2010
As the war in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, doubts increase in the US and abroad as to whether American military strategy there is on the right path. The Afghanistan Study...
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Tuesday, 26 Oct, 2010
Parag Khanna, the director of the Global Governance Initiative and senior research fellow with the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, spoke with The Majalla...
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Tuesday, 19 Oct, 2010
Six months after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, the absence of a new government leaves an ever-increasing power vacuum. With the Iraqiyya alliance and the State of Law bloc ba...
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Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2010
Yes, he is the father of the euro, the European currency. Not only did Dr. Theodor Waigel propose the name of the currency in 1995 while serving as German finance minister (1989-1...
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Wednesday, 29 Sep, 2010
Since its independence in 1919, Afghanistan has been influenced by foreign forces, and the last 30 years of its existence have been characterized by particularly high levels of tu...
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