Added on 14/06/2012
Common Ground News Service
Army , Binyamin Netanyahu , Food and Drink , Israel , Jerusalem , Jr. , Lebanon , Martin Luther King Jr. , Middle East , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Rosa Parks , Shimon Peres , United States , West Bank , White House
MIKO PELED, MONDOWEISS: When it comes to Shimon Peres there’s a great struggle to see how he has advanced freedom in the Middle East in any way.
Added on 03/06/2012
Common Ground News Service
Africa , Al Ahram , Army , Asia , BBC , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Egypt’s Suez Canal , Europe , Journalist , Justice and Development Party (AKP) , Manufacturing , Maryland , Middle East , Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Mustafa Abdelhalim , President , Prime Minister , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Reuters , Suez Canal , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Turkey , University of Maryland
MUSTAFA ANDELHALIM, CGNEWS: Egypt is creating its own narrative. There are lessons to be learned from Turkey but it’s not a complete solution
Added on 02/06/2012
Francis Matthew
Al Houla , Arab League , Army , Bashar al-Assad , Hafez Al Assad , Homs , Qatar , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Syrian Muslim Brotherhood , Syrian National Council , United Nations , Vladimir Putin
FRANCIS MATTHEW: If the opposition wants to win over the army or security forces, it must distinguish between supporters of Al Assad’s regime, and Alawites in general.
Added on 02/06/2012
Syria News Wire
Army , FSA , Hizballah , Journalism , Syria
NEWS FROM SYRIA: VICE Magazine has been spending some time with the Free Syrian Army. Will their reporting divide opinion once again?
Added on 26/05/2012
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Army , Censorship , Lina Ben M’henni , Literature , Ministry of Interior , Print media , Tunisia
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Censorship is developing many tentacles in Tunisia today but writers are refusing to take attacks lying down
Added on 22/05/2012
Richard Silverstein
Al Qaeda , Army , Border Police , Croatia , Ehud Barak , Energy , Gandhi , IDF , International Criminal Court , Israel , M-16 , Nablus , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , police officer , Serbia , State Terrorism , Terrorism , West Bank
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Know you will be held accountable. That Jews with any moral sense renounce you just as most Muslims renounce Al-Qaeda terrorists.
Added on 15/05/2012
Tabsir
Amman , Army , Baghdad , Bahrain , Co-Editor , Europe , Georgetown , Harvard , Iraq , Journalism , Kuwait , Literature , Mahmoud Darwish , Massachusetts , Novelist , Paris , Poet , Rome , Saddam Hussein , Sinan Antoon , Syria , travel ban , United Nations , United States , Yemen
TABSIR: A celebrated novelist, poet and filmmaker Sinan Antoon reflects on life in Iraq before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein
Added on 06/04/2012
Common Ground News Service
Army , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Hebrew University , Iran , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Jordan , Mediterranean , Middle East , Palestine , Syria , the Christian Science Monitor , United States , West Bank
BEN LYNFIELD, CGNEWS: Gershom Gorenberg, an Israeli historian, spells out how Israel can re-invent itself as a liberal democracy
Added on 28/03/2012
Common Ground News Service
Ariel Katz , Army , Captain , Cornell University , Cornell University in New York , Egypt , Eilat , Iran , Israel , Mediterranean Sea , Palestine , Spy , Syria , Tel Aviv , United Kingdom
ARIEL KATZ, CGNEWS: In the Middle East we’re used to drawing firm conclusions from appearances. Ask a question, however, and….
Added on 16/03/2012
Syria News Wire
Aleppo , Arab League , Army , Damascus , Democracy , Facebook , Free Syrian Army , Golan Heights , Hama , Homs , Istanbul , Lebanon , Mobile Phones , Muslim Brotherhood , President , Protests , Ramadan , Red Cross , Syria , Syrian Golan Heights , Syrian National Council , Turkey , United States
SYRIA NEWS WIRE: It began with a small demonstration by young people in Deraa. The flames have spread and now engulf the nation.
Added on 01/03/2012
Michael J. Totten
Algeria , Arab Spring , Army , Bashar al-Assad , Ben Ali , Budapest , Cairo , Democracy , East Africa , Eastern Mediterranean , Egypt , Iran , Islam , Islamist party , Lebanon , Libya , Mediterranean , Middle East , North Africa , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Prague , Prime Minister , Sahara , Sharia Law , Syria , Tripoli , Tunisia , United States
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: Largely forgotten in the West, Tunisia is where the great movements and ideas of the Arab Spring are fighting a huge battle.
Added on 29/02/2012
Susan Al Shahri
Army , Democracy , Egypt , Libya , Middle East , Nikon , Oman , Sultan Qaboos bin Said
SUSAN AL SHAHRI: It’s a year since protests erupted in Salalah. We’ve been through a lot and learned a lot since then.
Added on 26/02/2012
Dhofari Gucci
Arab Spring , Army , Democracy , Governor , Oman , Protests
DHOFARI GUCCI: It’s a year since the Arab Spring hit Salalah and the results have been impressive.
Added on 18/02/2012
Michael J. Totten
Army , Assad , Beirut , Damascus , Facebook , Hizballah , KGB , Lebanon , Syria , The Wall Street Journal , YouTube
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: There isn’t a lot to laugh about in Syria at the moment but try telling that to the Syrians themselves.
Added on 15/02/2012
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al Aswany , Alaa al-Aswany , Army , Chicago , Coca cola , Democracy , Egypt , Islamist , Literature , Member of Parliament , Minister of the Interior , Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Nile , Novelist , political commentator , Port Said , Prime Minister , Salafi , State media , Tahrir Square , The New Yorker , The Yacoubian Building
M. LYNX-QUALEY: He is arguably Egypt’s leading public intellectual and every week he holds public salons whose numbers have swelled hugely over the past year.
Added on 12/02/2012
David Roberts
Aleppo , Arab League , Army , Assad , Bashar al-Assad , China , Energy , Free Syrian Army , Golan Heights , Hafez Al Assad , Hama , Hizballah , Iran , Jordan , Lebanon , Libya , Mediterranean Sea , Oil , President , Qatar , Quds Force , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Syrian army , Tehran , Turkey , United Nations , United Nations Security Council
DAVID ROBERTS: Working out exactly what must be done is fiendishly difficult; anyone who says they have a solution is grossly underestimating the complexities.
Added on 12/02/2012
Rania Al Malky
Army , Cairo , Cairo Criminal Court , Democracy , Egypt , Facebook , International Republican Institute , Israel , Kamal El-Ganzoury , Mubarak , National Democratic Institute , Omar Suleiman , President , Prime Minister , Ramadan , SCAF , Suez , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Tahrir Square , United States
RANIA AL MALKY: Every drop of blood spilt in the struggle for democracy has taken away from SCAF’s legitimacy, turning more Egyptians against military rule.
Added on 07/02/2012
Naseem Tarawnah
Amman , Army , Economy , Employment , Health insurance , Information Technology , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Jordan Times , Manufacturing , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Russia , Singapore , Social services , Syria , the Jordan Times , United States , World Bank
NASEEM TARAWNAH: With 100,000 active personnel, nearly 65,000 in reserve , and household sizes of 5.4 that’s 891,000 people linked to the army’s payroll.
Added on 14/01/2012
Rania Al Malky
Army , Cairo , Egypt , Habib El-Adly , head of communications , Interior Ministry , Mubarak , State media , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , UN Court
RANIA AL MALKY: Without a just verdict, this absurd piece of courtroom drama will join a shameful list of reminders the revolution is far from complete.
Added on 26/12/2011
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Army , Beirut , Cairo , Christianity , Christmas , Egypt , George W. Bush , Hizbullah , Hosni Mubarak , Iraq , Lebanon , Middle East , Mosul , Nancy Ajram , Northern Iraq , Palestine Liberation Organization , President , US Federal Reserve , Wafd , Wafd Party , West Bank
JUAN COLE: The some 12 million Arab Christians (out of plus 350 million Arabs) are very much agents in their own fates. They make alliances, and sometimes switch them.
