Steve Royston

Realpolitik: Leaders Fiddle While Libyans Burn

Realpolitik: Leaders Fiddle While Libyans Burn

Like millions of others, I’ve been watching, transfixed, as the drama in Libya plays out. I’ve also been listening to pundits and politicians on various channels as they debate and comment on the current situation. There appears to be a wide consensus – Venezuela and Zimbabwe excepted – that Colonel Gaddafi and his regime have […]

 Common Ground News Service

Women With Men Directing Winds of Change

Women With Men Directing Winds of Change

CARLA KOPPELL: Women’s role must be honoured in the struggle and protect against the fundamentalist push. Most importantly, their involvement will be key to enabling thriving societies

 Ramzy Baroud

Arab Revolutions Throw Spanner Into Israeli Propaganda Machine

Arab Revolutions Throw Spanner Into Israeli Propaganda Machine

RAMZY BAROUD: The Arab people who have taken to the streets to demand democracy are not playing to Israeli caricatures.

 Common Ground News Service

Tawakkul Karman: The Woman Leading Yemen’s Protests

Tawakkul Karman: The Woman Leading Yemen’s Protests

ALICE HACKMAN: She has been profiled by leading international publications but long before the world discovered Tawakkul Karman she was battling fearlessly in support of human rights.

 Alexander McNabb

Title Irony: Why Journalists like to do PR on PRs

Title Irony: Why Journalists like to do PR on PRs

ALEXANDER MCNABB: It infuriates me because I know how very dishonest the practice is – from a media that insists on telling us that it is the only trustworthy source.

 Common Ground News Service

‘Women’s Rights’ Must Be Secured in ‘New Bahrain’

‘Women’s Rights’ Must Be Secured in ‘New Bahrain’

SANA’ MOHAMMAD BIN HAMOUD: Women’s rights campaigners have made impressive advances in Bahrain. However protesters should push further.

 David Roberts

A Symbol of Freedom – Libya’s New Flag?

A Symbol of Freedom – Libya’s New Flag?

DAVID ROBERTS: The red band on this flag, as ever, signals the blood of those who fought for freedom. The black band is thought to refer back to an older flag, the green band is for prosperity…

 Mondoweiss

Israeli ‘muscle flexing’ could harm U.S Interests

Israeli ‘muscle flexing’ could harm U.S Interests

ALI GHARIB, MONDOWEISS: Two Iranian warships pass through the Suez Canal and the Israelis howl in protest. The U.S administration quickly falls into line…

 Mondoweiss

Democracy: U.S. Speaks With a ‘Forked Tongue’

Democracy: U.S. Speaks With a ‘Forked Tongue’

PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: Fine words in Cairo almost two years ago are forgotten when the Israeli lobby makes a call for a vote on illegal West Bank settlements…

 Rob L. Wagner

Women Who Drive: Saudi’s Worst Kept Secret

Women Who Drive: Saudi’s Worst Kept Secret

ROB L. WAGNER – Go outside the major population centres in the Kingdom and you will find it common to see women drivers.

 Mondoweiss

Frustration with U.S on Palestine Catalysing More Direct Measures

Frustration with U.S on Palestine Catalysing More Direct Measures

DAVID SCHWARTZMAN, MAI ABDUL, MONDOWEISS: The Middle East peace process is going nowhere fast and interested parties are giving up on the U.S.

 Jonathan Cook

Palestinians Losing Patience With the PA

Palestinians Losing Patience With the PA

JONATHAN COOK: Eighteen years of the so-called ‘peace process’ appear to have drawn to a close and the Palestinian people feel betrayed by their negotiators.

 Steve Royston

The Crisis in the Arab World – The Long View

The Crisis in the Arab World – The Long View

STEVE ROYSTON: A focus on regeneration will have a longer-lasting effect than quick political fixes that will do nothing to alleviate the lot of the frustrated…

 Juan Cole

Palestine Papers: ‘Peace process? What Peace Process’

Palestine Papers: ‘Peace process? What Peace Process’

JUAN COLE: The 1600 documents leaked to Al Jazeerah could spell the end of the PLO and drive the nail in the coffin of the so-called ‘peace process’.

 James M. Dorsey

Protests & Cessation Threats Set Stage for Change

Protests & Cessation Threats Set Stage for Change

JAMES M. DORSEY: A wave of protests across the Arab world sets the stage for the redrawing of the political map of the Mideast and North Africa.

 Ramzy Baroud

Declaration of Palestine: Revisiting Hope & Failure

Declaration of Palestine: Revisiting Hope & Failure

RAMZY BAROUD: The Palestinian leadership needs to embrace partners of old, from the time before Oslo, the “peace process”, the Roadmap and all the other broken promises…

 Juan Cole

Oil Price Rise means a Happy 2011 in Tehran

Oil Price Rise means a Happy 2011 in Tehran

JUAN COLE: While U.S consumers bemoan oil price rises it’s smiles all round in Iran. The OPEC chair is in no hurry to do anything about spiraling costs.

 Hasni Abidi

Why We Must Speak up for Arab Christians

Why We Must Speak up for Arab Christians

HASNI ABIDI: The spate of recent attacks on Christians throughout the Arab world has thrown into focus the urgent need to defend their contribution across all areas of life.

 Juan Cole

Top 10 Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

Top 10 Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

JUAN COLE: The Obama administration has been successful in tightening the financial noose on Iran during 2010, but Iran could fight back like a cornered rat…

 David Westley

New Labour Laws a Powerful Boost for the UAE Economy

New Labour Laws a Powerful Boost for the UAE Economy

DAVID WESTLEY: The new labour laws have come out in a drip feed, enough to get you interested, guaranteed to leave you wanting more detail.