Politics
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Saturday, 10 Oct, 2009
Tell me how this ends? On January 17, 2002 a mass of Houssein Al-Houthi’s followers stood outside the Great Mosque in Sana chanting “Allah Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, Damn the Jews, Victory to Islam.” The “cry”, as it came to be known, was really an “outcry in the face of arrogance” according to Houssein Al-Houthi, the leader of the rebel movement at the time. Having given a lecture to followers earlier that day on the perils of American tyranny, and the disgra...
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Monday, 20 Jul, 2009
On July 5 violence broke out in the Western Xinjiang Autonomous Region, a province in the West of China. Over the next few days over 180 people were killed in clashes between Chinese of Han and Uyghur origin and between the latter and the police. Irrespective of the causes of this particular outbreak of violence there are two elements that underscore the heavy-handed response of Chinese authorities to this outburst. The first element is Uyghur Islamic terrorism and Chinese fears of its potentia...
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Monday, 13 Jul, 2009
Democracy is not a thing of beauty. It is messy, loud, and chaotic. It is always and everywhere imperfect and incomplete. As the elections on June 7 showed, Lebanon’s demo...
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Monday, 29 Jun, 2009
The death of an old order is easier to spot than the birth of a new one. A full century passed after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and the demise of the dauphin before Fran...
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Monday, 15 Jun, 2009
Two elections frame the future prospects for the long-troubled relationship between the United States and one of its most persistent and pervasive adversaries, the Islamic Republi...
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Sunday, 31 May, 2009
From the vantage point of Washington, Lebanon’s elections present both an opportunity and a question. Since its creation, Lebanon has defied the old cliché that all politics ...
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Monday, 25 May, 2009
Iraqis are eager to finally be rid of more than six years of U.S. military occupation, and Americans are eager to bring their troops home from that county. Yet both the Iraqi pu...
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Kuwait will never cease to be on top of Mideast news headlines. This small country has become a newsworthy subject-matter and has presented itself to the world as a country where ...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
The oversimplification that Hezbollah used to justify itself when the Egyptian authorities arrested one of Hezbollah members contradicts a host of political and legal facts, which...
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Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009
The theory of decoupling was discredited last fall when China followed the rest of the world into the recession’s abyss. But hold on. Writing in Newsweek magazine this week, Gol...
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