All posts in Middle East & Arab World

Egypt 2014 – 2016
April 10, 2017, 1 Comment

Copts in Egypt: Attacked again (The Economist) Yesterday at least 45 people died and dozens more were injured in attacks ...

Syria 2016
December 28, 2016, 1 Comment

See also Russia in 2016 Syria 2015 Devastation: Why refugees are risking everything to come to Europe A meticulous and h ...

Israel – Palestine/Gaza 2015 – 2016
December 28, 2016, Comments Off on Israel – Palestine/Gaza 2015 – 2016

28 December Thomas L. Friedman: Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump His Chump The settlers’ goal is very clear, as Kerry put it ...

Middle East & Arab World 2015-16
December 12, 2016, 1 Comment

Brookings Middle East and North Africa Carnegie Council: Perspectives from Inside a Tumultuous Middle East: Syria-Iraq-I ...

Iran 2014-2016
September 27, 2016, Comments Off on Iran 2014-2016

See also Wednesday Night #1741 Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hop ...

Turkey 2015
January 1, 2016, Comments Off on Turkey 2015

2015 Erdoğan cites Hitler’s Germany as example of effective government Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

ISIS/ISIL/Daesh 2015
December 29, 2015, Comments Off on ISIS/ISIL/Daesh 2015

See also ISIS/ISIL 2013-14 Profile: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Russia in 2015 What ISIS Really Wants ISIS Fantasies of an Apoc ...

Syria 2015
December 16, 2015, Comments Off on Syria 2015

Syria is the prototype place where it’s a proxy war for some regional powers. The camps, so to speak, are the regime i ...

Osama bin Laden Killed
May 15, 2015, Comments Off on Osama bin Laden Killed

Much more on Wednesday-Night.com Separating Fact From Seymour Hersh’s Fiction About bin Laden Osama’s body was chopp ...

Islam and Islamists
January 16, 2015, Comments Off on Islam and Islamists

Reaction to Charlie Hebdo [see I am (not) Charlie] has included wide-spread analysis, commentary and soul-searching by a ...