Added on 09/07/2011
James M. Dorsey
Ali Abdullah Saleh , Assad , Colonel , East Africa , Egypt , guard , Gulf Cooperation Council , Iran , Libya , Middle East , Muammar Qaddafi , North Africa , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , President , Saudi Arabia , Syria , The US ambassador , Tunisia , United Nations , United States , Yemen
JAMES M. DORSEY: Western and Arab nations have more to gain from real engagement with Mr. Assad’s opponents than from symbolic gestures and silence.
Added on 29/06/2011
Syria News Wire
Aref Dalila , Satellite TV , Syria
NEWS FROM SYRIA: Foreign journalists allowed in? Recognition that there is, actually, an opposition? Great, but old habits die hard in Damascus.
Added on 28/06/2011
Juan Cole
Aleppo , Arab League , Bashar al-Assad , Ben Ali , Damascus , Egypt , Facebook , Fatah , Gaza , Hamas , Hizballah , Israel , Khaled Meshaal , Lebanon , Libya , Mubarak , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Qatar , Syria , Syrian government , Tunisia , Turkey
PAUL NOTAR, INFORMED COMMENT: He’s always been a skilful player of ‘the Palestinian Card’ but as the region changes his hold on that particular narrative is no longer exclusive.
Added on 26/06/2011
Mondoweiss
Basketball , Football , Gaza , Palestine , United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
ANNIE, MONDOWEISS: Now in its fifth year the Gaza Summer Games provides a beacon of light for 250,000 students.
Added on 23/06/2011
Mondoweiss
Ali Gharib , America , Benjamin Netanyahu , Department of State , Egypt , Furkan Dogan , Gaza , Israel , Matthew Yglesias , Palestine , Prime Minister , Turkey , United States , Washington
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: The American Gaza flotilla protesters have received some helpful advice from the U.S. State Department. They could be shot by Israeli forces.
Added on 23/06/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
America , Basra , Christina Phillips , CNN , Denys Johnson-Davies , Egypt , Iceland , Iraq , Italy , Japan , Literature , Paris , Piers Amodia , Samuel Shimon , Shakir Mustafa , Sinan Antoon , The New Yorker , William Hutchins
M. LYNX-QUALEY: It’s one of those lists again. You know it’s designed to gain a reaction and you can’t help yourself so here I go with my reaction to books on Iraq.
Added on 22/06/2011
Alexander McNabb
Beirut , British government , Cliffhouse restaurant , Geekfest , Kim Philby , London , Mediterranean , Shemlan
ALEXANDER MCNABB: Looking out over Beirut from Shemlan never fails to take my breath away.
Added on 21/06/2011
Syria News Wire
Bashar al-Assad , Ba’ath Party , President , Syria
NEWS FROM SYRIA: Out with the jokes, out with the arrogant posture. In with nervousness, in with technical detail. It’s the ‘same old, same old’ – in a word ‘denial’.
Added on 16/06/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Cairo , Egypt , Gaza , Hamas , Mohammed Omer , Mubarak , Palestine , Russia , Sinai desert , The New York Times
RAMZY BAROUD: The process of leaving Gaza through the Rafah Crossing to Egypt can only be described as a ‘human lottery’. A deeply unpleasant, humiliating lottery.
Added on 11/06/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Barcelona , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Hamas , Israel , Palestine
RAMZY BAROUD: Houses were transformed into rubble during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Residents have had to…
Added on 11/06/2011
Tabsir
Actor , Afghanistan , America , Barack Obama , Binyamin Netanyahu , Central Intelligence Agency , Congress , Egypt , Fatah , Federal Bureau of Investigation , Hamas , Hizballah , IPad , iPhone , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jerusalem , Libya , Middle East , Mossad , oil prices , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Shin Bet , United States , West Bank , White House
LEONAR NIMOY, TABSIR: There is a viable plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s the ‘two-state’ solution and its application is, how should I put it, simply logical.
Added on 06/06/2011
Juan Cole
Golan Heights , Israel , Palestine , Syria , Tear gas , Tel Aviv , United Nations
JUAN COLE: Israeli troops have a wide variety of non-lethal means of dealing with unarmed protesters. That they opted for live ammunition.
Added on 05/06/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Egypt , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Israel , Israeli army , Palestine , Palestinian Territories
RAMZY BAROUD: It was the visit to my former home which stirred some of the most poignant memories – a house full of unruly boys, an exasperated mother and a loving, resourceful, thundering father.
Added on 05/06/2011
Mondoweiss
Cairo , Fatah , Hamas , Iran , Israel , Middle East , Obama , Palestine , United Nations , United States , White House
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: Whoever put together the new White House web page on Israel clearly didn’t pay much attention to the recent speech by President Obama on the Middle East. It’s a ‘lobby triumph’.
Added on 31/05/2011
Naseem Tarawnah
Israel , Jordan , Member of Parliament , Palestine , Palestinian Territories
NASEEM TARAWNAH: 6,000 idiots from 69 countries around the world have signed a petition calling Jordan the alternative homeland for Palestinians?
Added on 31/05/2011
Syria News Wire
autocratic President , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Golan Heights , Homs , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , President , Robin Yassin-Kassab , State media , Syria , Syrian Golan Heights , The New York Times , YouTube
NEWS FROM SYRIA: Syrian forces are facing armed resistance for the first time. Will this provide the government with an opportunity to ‘divide and conquer’?
Added on 30/05/2011
Mondoweiss
Ben Gurion University , central Israel , Ehud Olmert , Europe , Gaza , Israel , Jerusalem , Massachusetts , New York , Obama , Palestine , West Bank
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: The premise of conducting a swap is, I believe, that you have something of equal value for the other party. Tell that to Israel.
Added on 29/05/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Cairo , Egypt , Egyptian army , Gaza , Hosni Mubarak , Nabil al-Arabi , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Sinai , Sinai desert , Stockholm , US Federal Reserve
RAMZY BAROUD: Today the border at the Rafah Crossing officially opens. It’s another significant milestone of the ‘Arab Spring’.
Added on 27/05/2011
Naseem Tarawnah
Amman , Black September , Egypt , Energy , Iraq , Jordan , Nigeria
NASEEM TARAWNAH: So Jordan’s Independence Day has come and gone. It’s a good time perhaps to reflect on some of the lessons I’ve learned.
Added on 24/05/2011
Mondoweiss
Alpha , Asia , Barack Obama , Chicago , Christiane Amanpour , Europe , Israel , Jordan , Latin America , Middle East , Netanyahu , Obama , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Steve Walt , The Wall Street Journal , United States
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: A visibly angry Barack Obama, fresh from yet another humiliation at the hand of Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered a stinging rebuke to the Jewish lobby at the AIPAC conference.