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Written by : Juliet Highet

on : Wednesday, 28 Dec, 2011

The Fashion Architect

“I had quite a conservative upbringing, so I just went wild, before deciding I’d like to work in the fashion industry after all.” Osman Yousefzada is of Afghan origin, but was born in Birmingham, graduated in anthropology from Cambridge, and actually dropped out of a Fashion Design course at London’s Central Saint Martins art college. He joined Joseph in 2005 - Then Tom Singh (founder of New Look) offered him £5,000 to launch a collection. Yousefzada now has a highly successful l...

Written by : Federico Manfredi

on : Wednesday, 28 Dec, 2011

The Long Fall of Assad

The seasons go by but Syria’s Arab Spring shows no sign of passing. Bashar Al-Assad’s strategy remains that of buying himself more time, in the hopes that a combination of domestic repression and international diplomacy will allow him to weather the crisis and hold on to power. However, as the ranks of the opposition continue to grow, it seems increasingly unlikely that Assad will manage to postpone his fall for much longer. The prospects for the future of Syria do not look bright. Ev...

Filed under: Politics - Tagged with: Aleppo, Assad, baath, bashar, Christian, Damascus, ethnic, franace, homs, Kurdish, news, pkk, regime, sectarian, slawi, sunii, sunni, Syria, Syrian, Turkey

Written by : Koshan Ali Khidhir

on : Saturday, 24 Dec, 2011

The Kurdish Sun Rises

The current turmoil engulfing the government of Iraq has put on full display the political might and critical influence of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq. Freque...

Filed under: News - Tagged with: Al-Maliki, allawi, Barzani, D'awa, hashemi, Iraq, KRG, Kurdish, kurdistan, maliki, Nouri Al Maliki, post withdrawal, Qurbani, Talabani, troop withdrawal, US

Written by : Abdulla Hawez

on : Friday, 23 Dec, 2011

What is Really Going on in Iraq?

This week’s coordinated bombings in Baghdad are only the latest instance of growing sectarian tension in Iraq. The competition is at the very heart of Iraq's government, betw...

Filed under: Blogs, The Out of Towner - Tagged with: Baghdad, blog, bombings, hashemi, Iran, Iraq, Kurdish, kurdistan, maliki, news, politcs, sectarian, Shia, sunni, Turkey, US

Written by : The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

on : Friday, 23 Dec, 2011

Supreme Rational Power

Nuclear Fatwa: Religion and Politics in Iran’s Proliferation Strategy Michael Eisenstadt and Mehdi Khalaji The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Because the su...

Filed under: Reviews, Think Tank Reports - Tagged with: America, atomic, Eisenstadt, Iran, iranian, Israel, khalaji, khalji, khamenei, khameni, middel east, Middle East, near east policy, nuclear, nuclear fatwa, politcs, Politics, power, prolferation, strategy, US, washington institute

Written by : Moustafa Ayad

on : Thursday, 22 Dec, 2011

Baghdad Burning

Sixteen explosions across Baghdad today have killed upwards of 65 people and injured 200 more. The bombings follow a tense four days since the United States officially withdrew...

Filed under: News - Tagged with: al-Iraqia, Anbar, Baghdad, bomb, bomb attack, boycott, Diyala, D’awa party, Integrity Commission, Iraq, Kirkuk, Nouri Al Maliki, Saleh al-Mutlak, Tariq al-Hashemi, troop withdrawal, United States, violence

Written by : The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

on : Thursday, 22 Dec, 2011

The Activist and The Uprising

Internet bloggers have become the celebrities of the Arab Spring. The names of blogs and bloggers like Arabawy, Sand Monkey and Mona Eltahawy publishing in Arabic, English, Fre...

Filed under: Humanity - Tagged with: activists, Alaa, Amina Arraf, Arab, Arabawy, Assad, blog, bloggers, cairo, Fatah, Fattah, Free Alaa, Ghazzawi, hoax, mahmoud salem, Razan, Razzan, sand monkey, Spring, tahrir, Tom McMaster, Where is Raed

Written by : The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

on : Wednesday, 21 Dec, 2011

Liberty or Death

Earlier this year, Majalla published a review of Hitch-22, the prescient memoir of Christopher Hitchens titled to reference the bible of the absurd, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22....

Filed under: News - Tagged with: Book, Catch-22, Christopher, Havel, Hitch 22, Hitchens, Passing, review, Vaclav

Written by : Amy Assad

on : Wednesday, 21 Dec, 2011

Journey to the Heart of Hajj

Little signs with intricate descriptions are held in their place with masking tape. An impressive well lit rotund space underneath a colored dome roof is strewn with ladders, p...

Filed under: Cultural Connection, Culture, News - Tagged with: british, british museum, First, hajj, HSBC Amanah, King Abdulaziz, mecca, Museum, Neil Macgregor, Porter, Riyadh, Venetia, Venetia Porta

Written by : The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

on : Tuesday, 20 Dec, 2011

An Iraqi Shakedown

Barely 48 hours after the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, a crisis—that could precipitate a resurgence in sectarian tensions—has hit the country. The ministry of interio...