All posts in Middle East & Arab World

Israel – Palestine/Gaza 2014
December 31, 2014, 1 Comment

Security Council resolution on Palestinian state defeated The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday failed to adopt ...

Turkey 2012 – 2014
December 30, 2014, Comments Off on Turkey 2012 – 2014

Dreams of Kurdistan — A journey through Kurdish identity. (Al Jazeera Magazine) Kurdistan is a kind of dream: an a ...

ISIS/ISIL 2013-14
December 30, 2014, Comments Off on ISIS/ISIL 2013-14

Alastair Crooke: You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia The dr ...

Iraq 2008-2014
December 25, 2014, Comments Off on Iraq 2008-2014

Amnesty International Iraq Crisis ISIS/ISIL The crisis in Iraq: Was the rise of ISIL a surprise?–– The legac ...

Syria 2013 – 2014
November 26, 2014, 8 Comments

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

Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014
November 22, 2014, Comments Off on Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014

Alastair Crooke You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia Why sho ...

Iran in 2012 – 2013
November 25, 2013, 3 Comments

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for the future. Then old men ...

Egypt 2013
November 4, 2013, Comments Off on Egypt 2013

Robert Fisk: As Mohamed Morsi goes to trial, General Sisi should remember –Egypt is a dangerous place to rule The ...

The Middle East’s Big Knot of Enemies and Allies
August 28, 2013, Comments Off on The Middle East’s Big Knot of Enemies and Allies

The Middle East’s Big Knot of Enemies and Allies, Visualized In one chart. A letter to the editor published in Thursda ...

Egypt in 2011-2012
December 22, 2012, 5 Comments

  He’s presiding over a country that lacks a constitution, a dissolved parliament, an economic — a huge ...