Articles tagged with: levant
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Wednesday, 19 Sep, 2012
The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole, so goes an old saying, is to stop digging. And yet, scorched by an inferno of Arab outrage, Washington refuses to deal honestly and intelligently with its source. Instead, it just keeps on digging.
Muslim anger, conservatives bloviate, is the harvest of President Barak Obama’s failure to stand up for friendly dictators. From Rabat to Baghdad, U.S. diplomats will continue to huddle inside walled embassies, estranged from their host peo...
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Monday, 12 Mar, 2012
The Arab World has experienced a number of shifts and shocks since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Great War. It has never been immune to moments of change, but such moments while transformational at the time have often failed to take root in the sands of the region.
The Moroccan scholar Abdallah Loroui observes that the Arab World’s experience can be divided into four distinct phases.The first period (1850-1914) is The Nahda, the Arab Renaissance, when the Arab World ...
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