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An examination of the newest and most relevants ideas and reports to emerge on the middle east.
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Monday, 25 May, 2009
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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Monday, 25 May, 2009
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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Monday, 25 May, 2009
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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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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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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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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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 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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Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
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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Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009
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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