Articles tagged with: Politics
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Responding to the Tamarod (Rebellion) petition seeking to oust Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi—which at last count had gathered more than two million signatures—the Islamists have launched a petition of their own in support of the embattled leader.
Mursi supporters have launched a Tajarud (Impartial) petition following calls by Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya leader Assem Abdul-Majid. This battle of the petitions comes in the week that an independent public opinion re...
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was rocked by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings at housing compounds for expatriates. Over 30 people died and 160 were injured in what was, and remains, the deadliest terrorist attack in the kingdom’s history. The bombing came as a shock to most Saudis and robbed the country of its relative innocence as far as internal violence was concerned. After decades of calm, Saudi Arabia suddenly became the scene ...
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Friday, 12 Apr, 2013
RAMALLAH, Asharq Al-Awsat—Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad tendered his resignation earlier this week over a dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.
Fayyad’s resignat...
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Wednesday, 26 Sep, 2012
Ve Providing an illusion of unity: what Turkish use of the common-or-garden conjunction 'and' tells us about Turkey.
Ve [Veh] conj. and
Modern English loves adjectives. ...
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Wednesday, 23 May, 2012
Militarizing the Cultural Arena
In a speech in 2003 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that
“More than Iran’s enemies need artillery, guns and so forth, they need to spread cultu...
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Monday, 21 May, 2012
This article does not in any sense recommend military intervention in Syria. But it is essential that hypothetical options are considered systematically as much to inform decis...
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Monday, 21 May, 2012
1. Malik Mufti, Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (Cornell University Press, 1996)
Mufti provides one of the best overviews of Syria pri...
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Friday, 27 Apr, 2012
In this new book, Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi sets herself an ambitious goal. She seeks to get under the skin of the most notorious of the offshoots of the Mu...
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Thursday, 19 Apr, 2012
It has been an entertaining couple of weeks in Egyptian politics. First there was the will-he-won’t-he drama surrounding Abu Ismail, the ultra-conservative Salafi who was fac...
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Early vote counts from Friday’s Majlis elections in Iran show that more than 64 percent of some 48 million eligible voters cast their ballots in its 9th parliamentary electio...
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