Reviews

An examination of the newest and most relevants ideas and reports to emerge on the middle east.



The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 25 May, 2009
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The Israeli Other: An insider’s view

By Johnny Mansour What do Arabs know about Israel? This is an important question asked by the author, a Haifa-born Palestinian researcher and historian, which he tries to answer throughout the book. As an expert in Middle-East history and Israeli affairs, Johnny Mansour tries to fill in two major gaps. The first of these is that between what actually goes on in Israel and what is being transmitted to the Arab world about Israel. The second, ever-widening gap is the one between what Arabs know...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 25 May, 2009
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The Accidental Guerrilla:Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

By David Kilcullen For experts, these are mind-boggling questions, especially to those who looked at the Iraqi war as a merry picnic, only to find out that it was just a nightmare whose chapters have not yet unfolded. David Kilcullen, a US strategic expert and once the chief advisor of general David Peteraous, was against the war on Iraq from the very beginning. He famously advised the White House in 2003 that "this war will last longer that you expect and you will never be able to end it". ...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 25 May, 2009
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A Major Shift

The current global financial crisis has brought about a major shift in GCC fiscal policy. Historically, GCC fiscal policy has been pro-cyclical. In the past, GCC governments have ...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 4 May, 2009
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Is Dubai Exiting the Crisis?

In the second half of 2008, when the global financial crisis hit the Gulf region, the Gulf Cooperation Council States were affected in different ways, due to various reasons. Duba...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 4 May, 2009
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Resistance: The Essence of Islamist Revolution

By Alistair Crooke Crooke attributes the themes of this struggle back to 500 years. Yet it has come to the front by the trauma of social engineering, ethnic cleansing, political...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 4 May, 2009
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Transit Troubles: Pipelines as a source of conflict

Chatham House ReportPaul Stevens, March 2009 These questions and many others led Stevens, an energy expert at Chatham House in London, to prepare a detailed report on the oil tr...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 4 May, 2009
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When Markets Collide

By Mohamed El Eria The book described by Alan Greenspan as "an essential read for those who wish to understand the modern world of investing", will help you to better understand...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Monday, 4 May, 2009
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Power Rules: How common sense can rescue American foreign policy by Leslie H Gelb

The book "Power Rules" discusses: how common sense can save America's foreign policy and its status as a superpower on the international scene and the possibility of its collapse ...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
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Islamic Movements around the World

By Hossam Tamam The book proposes ideas, experiences and surveys prominent figures of Islamic movements which arouse controversy around the Islamic World from Morocco to Malay...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
on : Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
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Engaging the Muslim World

By Juan Cole Juan Cole shed lights on the first speech by President Obama to the Muslim via his first interview al-Arabiya satellite channel.  Citing his statement “My job to...

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