Added on 16/06/2013
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Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Asad , Bashar al-Assad , Fertile Crescent , Iran , Israel , Libya , Middle East , Muammar Gaddafi , Obama , Politics , President , Syria , United Arab Republic , United States
DANIEL M. VARISCO: For George W. Bush the phrase was ‘Mission Accomplished’. For his successor there could be another phrase that defines his foreign affair policy
Added on 12/05/2013
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Asia , Egypt , Houthis , Islamic states , Khat , Member states of the Arab League , Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , Member states of the United Nations , Middle East , Saudi Arabia , Thomas Friedman , Western Asia , Yemen
DANIEL M. VARISCO: I felt the ghost of Mark Twain speaking to me as I read about Tom Friedman’s latest adventures in Yemen.
Added on 28/04/2013
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Asia , Bush , Entertainment/Culture , Saddam , Saudi Arabia , Western Asia
DANIEL M. VARISCO: He’s a danger to Saudi society. Women in the Kingdom must be protected from his dazzling good looks. All hail Handsome Omar!
Added on 30/03/2013
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Behavior , Civic virtue , Conscience , Ethics , Freedom of Speech , Nonviolence , Personality , Philosophy , Philosophy of mind , Political philosophy , Religion/Belief , Social philosophy
QASIM RASHID, CHRIS STEDMAN, TABSIR: One of us is Muslim and one is an atheist but we agree on certain fundamentals concerning religion
Added on 24/03/2013
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Demography , Fertility , Human geography , Morocco , Population , Total fertility rate
ANOUAR MAJID, TABSIR: It’s a phenomenon that’s being observed across the Muslim world as women are marrying later and opting to have fewer children
Added on 04/03/2013
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Abraham , Bible , Book of Genesis , Entertainment/Culture , Fertile Crescent , Hebrew Bible , Jehovah , Lot , Noah , The Bible: In the Beginning , Torah
DANIEL VARISCO: Here we go again. Yet another filmed interpretation of the Bible stretches credulity to the limit.
Added on 21/02/2013
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America , Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari , George Nicolas El-Hage , Holocaust literature , Human Interest , Humanities , Irene Lieblich , Lebanon , Literature , Monterey , Night , Poet
GEORGE EL HAGE, TABSIR: I felt it necessary to express directly to my son the feelings of loneliness, isolation and alienation felt by a Lebanese exile.
Added on 01/02/2013
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Andrea del Sarto , Holocaust literature , Lebanon , Literature , Night
TABSIR: They reflect the everyday struggles of a people whose land has been wracked by conflict and war.
Added on 26/01/2013
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America , Israel , Lebanon , Libya , Politics , Saudi Arabia , You have two cows
KARIM SADJAPOUR, TABSIR: Politically correct it may not be but the ‘Two Cows’ version of today’s Middle East is certainly fun.
Added on 31/12/2012
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Abdel Bari Atwan , Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Algeria , America , Arabic newspaper , Ayman al-Zawahiri , Editor-in-Chief , Egypt , Florida , Foreign Affairs , Gaza Strip , Iraq , Islam , Israel , Jerusalem , Leon Panetta , Libya , London , Mali , Middle East , North Africa , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Pentagon , President , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , Taliban , U.S. administration , United States , Washington , West Bank , Yemen , YouTube
KHALED FATTAH, TABSIR: There is a lazy shorthand in much Western reporting on the Middle East, particularly when it comes to describing the influence of tribes
Added on 27/12/2012
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Bashar al-Assad , Beirut , Education , Egypt , First Lady , Lebanon , Susan Mubarak , Syria , Syrian National Council , Tripoli , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund , US Federal Reserve
ESTELLA CARPI, TABSIR: Classes are being organised for refugee children and it’s clear that the Assads no longer feature in a Syrian present or future.
Added on 18/12/2012
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Australia , Christianity , Christmas , HBO , Illinois , Islam , Jerusalem , John , Marriott Hotel , Mexico , New York , Newsweek , Ohio , Religion , Time Magazine , Vermont
‘DANIEL M. VARISCO: It’s a shtick that gets trotted out in editorial conferences at this time of year and occasionally editors buy it. ‘So who’s the real Jesus?’
Added on 10/12/2012
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Egypt , Gaza , Haaretz , IDF , Israel , Israeli government , Journalism , Journalist , Ministry of Tourism , New York Times , Palestine , South Lebanon , Syria , Tel Aviv , The Jerusalem Post , Thomas Friedman , Tunisia , United Nations , United States
DANIEL M. VARISCO: Another one eyed piece from Mr Friedman. Is it too much to ask that he simply recognises the realities of Palestinian life?
Added on 28/10/2012
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Afghanistan , Barack Obama , Bibi Netanyahu , Civil society , Egypt , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jerusalem , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Obama administration , OECD , Palestine , President , Prime Minister , The New York Times , U.S. Middle East , United Nations , United States
NADIA HIJAB, TABSIR: Palestinians have finally realised that they themselves will determine their own fate not some idealised notion of a U.S President.
Added on 07/10/2012
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Adam and Eve , America , American Enterprise Institute , Dubai , General Assembly , Georgia , Iran , Islam , Kansas , Kenya , Libya , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , New York city , President , Qatar , Religion , Ronald Reagan , Senate , Sharia Law , Tea Party , Thomas Jefferson , Todd Aiken , United Nations , United States , Utah , Virginia
LUKE R.E. PUBLICAN, TABSIR: Kansas legislators have opted for a ‘belt and braces’ approach to deal with any possibility of Sharia creeping into the State.
Added on 30/09/2012
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Africa , America , Assad , Barack Obama , BP , China , Congress , George W. Bush , Governor , Iran , Israel , Jesus Christ , Joe Biden , Kenya , Lincoln , Middle East , Mitt Romney , MSNBC , Obama , Palestinian Authority , President , Presidential debates , Romney , Sarah Palin , sitting president , Somalia , Syria , Todd Aiken , United Nations , United States , White House
DANIEL M. VARISCO: The format is stale, it’s all so controlled and choreographed that very little of substance will be revealed. So why bother?
Added on 18/09/2012
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America , Anders Behring Breivik , Cairo , CNN , Edward Said , Egypt , Gaza , Hamas , Islam , Journalism , Kate Middleton , Libya , Media coverage , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Newsweek , Obama administration , Osama Bin Laden , princess , Rupert Murdoch , Salman Rushdie , Terry Jones , United States , YouTube
DANIEL M. VARISCO: The Newsweek cover this week is lazy and sensationalist. Not a lot has changed since Edward Said wrote a famous essay 30 years ago.
Added on 04/09/2012
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Afghanistan , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Saudi Arabia , Yemen
DANIEL M. VARISCO: He was eventually deposed but disgraced leader Ali Abdullah Salih shows no inclination to leave Yemen.
Added on 02/09/2012
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Afghanistan , executive director , Iraq , Islam , Las Vegas , Mecca , Medina , Saudi Arabia , United States
OMID SAFI, TABSIR: It’s not the Americans or Israelis who are wreaking destruction on Mecca a radical solution is required.
Added on 17/08/2012
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Abdullah bin Zayed , Actor , Dubai , guard , Islam , Mali , Media , Middle East , Qatar , Ramadan , Reuters , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates
DANIEL M. VARISCO: In its depiction of the life of the second caliph a television epic has touched a nerve while attracting huge viewing numbers
