Added on 20/09/2011
Lucy Emmerson
Arab League , Army , Barack Obama , Bashar al-Assad , Ba’ath Party , China , Egypt , European Union , France , Gulf Co-operation Council , Iran , Lebanon , Libya , Maher al-Assad , Oil , President , Republicans , Russia , Syria , Syrian government , Turkey , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States , William Hague
LUCY EMMERSON: There are still more who believe that a regime which has killed in excess of 2,200 peaceful protesters in the past 6 months cannot stand
Added on 19/09/2011
Juan Cole
Alan Grayson , Binyamin Netanyahu , Fateh , France , General Assembly , Germany , Israel , Israeli government , Jordan , Likud Party , Mahmoud Abbas , Netanyahu government , Netherlands , Obama , Oslo , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , UN General Assembly , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States , US government , West Bank
JUAN COLE: The Palestinians are heading to the U.N this week hoping to change the dynamics of the wretched situation they find themselves in.
Added on 22/08/2011
Juan Cole
Africa , Al Qaeda , Arab League , Baghdad , Barack Obama , Ben Ali , BP , chess , Egypt , Europe , France , George W. Bush , Hosni Mubarak , India , Iran , John McCain , Lebanon , Libya , McClatchy , Netherlands , Nicolas Sarkozy , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama administration , Oil , oil markets , oil prices , Oil wealth , Pentagon , President , Prime Minister , Robert Gates , Saif al-Islam Qaddafi , Secretary of Defense , Silvio Berlusconi , Spain , Tobruk , Transitional National Council , Tripoli , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United Nations , United Nations Security Council , United States , Western Europe , Western Mountain region , Zine el Abidine Ben Ali
JUAN COLE: It is worthwhile reviewing the myths about the Libyan Revolution that led so many observers to make so many fantastic or just mistaken assertions about it.
Added on 18/08/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Belgium , France , Paris , President , Sarkozy , Saudi Arabia , Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice , Women , Women's issues
CROSSROADS ARABIA: If the French and Belgian police need some help enforcing their niqab ban they should turn to the masters in female oppression.
Added on 11/08/2011
Juan Cole
Abdullah , Alternative Energy , Amman , Beirut , Brazil , Cairo , China , Energy , European Union , France , Germany , Iran , Israel , Jordan , King Abdullah , Middle East , Oil , port of Aqaba , Romania , Satellite channels , Solar energy , Soviet Union , Tajikistan , Tehran , The Star , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , Western Europe , Zambia
JUAN COLE: Klingons and Romulans wandering through the souk in Aqaba? Could be sooner than you think if King Abdullah’s ambitious plans come to fruition.
Added on 08/08/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Declaration of Independence , Employment , Europe , Expatriates , Food and Drink , France , Oil , Political systems , Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom , United States
CROSSROADS ARABIA: It’s a debate without ending but it seems to have taken a sharply antagonistic turn in an opinion piece in ‘Al Riyadh’.
Added on 08/08/2011
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
European Union , Federal Bureau of Investigation , France , Ground Zero mosque , Islam , Media coverage , Muslims , The National , The New York Times , United Kingdom , United States
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: These same results keep being found, keep being published – and keep being greeted with surprise…
Added on 05/08/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Army , Benjamin Netanyahu , CNN , Damascus , David Wurmser , France , Golan Heights , Hafez Al Assad , Hama , Hizballah , Iraq , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli government , Lebanon , Libya , President , Richard Perle , Sudan , Syria , Syrian army , Syrian Golan Heights , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: There is no simple linear reading of the events that have overwhelmed Syria in recent months. The country is deeply embroiled in so many vital, strategic regional issues.
Added on 29/07/2011
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , America , Anders Breivik , Christian , France , Glenn Beck , High Priest , Islam , Lord’s Resistance Army , Mecca , New Orleans , New York , New York city , Norway , specialist , United Nations , United States
JUAN COLE: In spite of the aggressive blather of Bill O’Reilly it would appear that so-called ‘Christian’ and ‘Muslim’ fundamentalists have much in common.
Added on 11/07/2011
Juan Cole
Ali Abdullah Saleh , Barack Obama , Cairo , Casablanca , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Essam Sharaf , France , Gulf Cooperation Council , Hosni Mubarak , Italy , John Brennan , Libya , Middle East , Morocco , Muammar Qaddafi , Mustafa Abdel Jalil , Nicolas Sarkozy , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama , Obama administration , Oil states , Pentagon , President , Prime Minister , Rabat , Riyadh , Silvio Berlusconi , Syria , Tahrir Square , Transitional National Council , Tripoli , Turkey , United Nations , United States , White House , Yemen
JUAN COLE: Protestors are out on Tahrir Square again, there is a television ‘debate’ in Syria about democracy, the Americans are working on Saleh while vacillating on Libya and protestors are out on the street in Morocco. A busy week in the region then.
Added on 15/06/2011
Juan Cole
Bloomberg , BP , David Cameron , France , Italy , Libya , Muammar Qaddafi , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama , Oil , Pentagon , President , Robert Gates , Saudi Arabia , Secretary of Defense , Silvio Berlusconi , Tony Blair , Tripoli , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States
JUAN COLE: To suggest that the West has cooked up a war against Qaddafi to steal Libyan oil is to demean the bravery of the Libyan people.
Added on 11/05/2011
SuhaibWebb
Al Qaeda , Alpha , bank robberies , Canada , Central Intelligence Agency , Clinton , European Union , Federal Bureau of Investigation , France , India , Internal Revenue Service , Ireland , Japan , Jesus Christ , Jewish Defense League , Ku Klux Klan , Kurdistan Workers’ Party , Media coverage , Pentagon , Philippines , President , Prime Minister , Puerto Rico , Spain , Summer Olympics , Terrorism , terrorist network , Timothy McVeigh , Turkey , U.S. government , United States , Vietnam
MUSTAFA OMAR: When it comes to the white-hot issue of terrorists who threaten American citizens perception, unfortunately, is very far from reality.
Added on 02/05/2011
Juan Cole
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Al-Ahram Center , Army , Asaf Ali Zardari , Ayman al-Zawahiri , Barack Obama , Bush , Bush Administration , Central America , Central Intelligence Agency , CNN , Congress , Department of State , Dick Cheney , Dome of the Rock , Dwight Eisenhower , Egypt , Egyptian military , Fahd , France , fundraiser , Gaza Strip , Inter-Services Intelligence , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jeddah , Jerusalem , Joe Biden , Kabul , Kuwait , Leonid Brezhnev , Libya , Middle East , Obama , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Pakistani intelligence , Palestinian Territories , Pentagon , Peshawar , President , Prime Minister , Ronald Reagan , Saddam Hussein , Saudi Arabia , Soviet Union , Sudan , Syria , Taliban , Tunisia , UN Security Council , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States , US government , USG , Washington , West Bank , White House
JUAN COLE: Post Osama, President Obama should do us all a favour and now remove U.S. troops from Iraq.
Added on 21/04/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Arabic , Cell phones , Energy , France , Internet users , Jeddah , Spain
CROSSROADS ARABIA: No language—not even ‘dead’ languages like Latin—are immune to change. Latin is constantly developing to deal with new technology and social developments.
Added on 19/04/2011
Omar al-Issawi
Bin Laden , Democracy , Europe , France , Gaddafi , Geneva , Hannibal , Indonesia , Iran , Libya , Muammar Gaddafi , Muslim Brotherhood , Niqab , Oil supplies , President , Saudi Arabia , Switzerland , Terry Jones , Women
OMAR AL ISSAWI: Playing the victim, engendering sympathy and hurling accusations of conspiracy, persecution and discrimination will only get a cause so far…
Added on 13/04/2011
Susie of Arabia
Belgium , France , Hijab , Jeddah , Mona Eltahawy , Niqab , Saudi Arabia , Women
SUSIE OF ARABIA: I feel I am forced to wear the abaya – it would not be my choice to dress like that. And I doubt if I am the only woman who feels this way.
Added on 13/04/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Alternative Energy , Chernobyl , China , Electricity , Energy , France , Japan , Nuclear energy , President , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , solar technology , United States
CROSSROADS ARABIA: With demand for energy soaring in the Kingdom it’s no surprise that the authorities are looking at nuclear energy. In the wake of the Fukushima catastrophe they will, though, face questions from an uneasy public.
Added on 13/04/2011
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Angela Merkel , Europe , France , Front National , Germany , Islam , Libya , Nicolas Sarkozy , President , Prime Minister , Tahrir Square , United Kingdom
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: With France’s anti-burqa law and less than encouraging words from European leaders, Muslims are feeling under pressure.
Added on 09/04/2011
Juan Cole
Al-Hayat , America , Amman , Beirut , Cairo , Cairo University , China , Declaration of Independence , Egypt , France , India , Islamabad , John Stuart Mill , Jordan , Martin Luther King Jr. , Middle East , Novelist , Pakistan , PayPal , Politics , Thomas Jefferson , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United States , US State Department , Washington
JUAN COLE: I am hopeful that the book will find an eager reception in Egypt, Tunisia and other countries yearning for democracy in the Arab world.
Added on 31/03/2011
Michael J. Totten
Benghazi , CNN , Democracy , Energy , France , Hamas , Hillary Clinton , Hizballah , Israel , Libya , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Tripoli
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: Very little seems to be known about the rebels who are fighting Qaddafi. When I found out that a trusted source was effectively ’embedded’ with them I had a few questions to put to her.
