Posted on Sat, July 7, 2012 at 21:00 pm CEST
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“And What Do You Want to Say to the Iraqi People?”

I’ve been interviewed a number of times, for example, by Iraqi journalists. But this time there was a different kind of question at the end of the interview… Continue reading

Topics: Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Media • The Middle East 
Posted on Mon, December 12, 2011 at 15:19 pm CET
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The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine

Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • History • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Palestine Liberation Organization 
Posted on Thu, December 8, 2011 at 19:46 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: The Right of Return: What it Means in Jordan

The right of return for Palestinians is one of the issues at the heart of the debate… Continue reading

Topics: Jordan • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Tue, November 29, 2011 at 01:36 am CET
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Radical Chic Catastrophes: When Romanticism Trumps Reason

The radical is always the more glamorous… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamofascism • Multiculturalism • Nazi Germany • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, November 15, 2011 at 21:40 pm CET
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U.S. Political Engineering in the Middle East: Its Already Created Disaster Once Before

Few realize how U.S. policy at the start of the radical Islamist era in Middle East history parallels that… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • History • Islamism • Politics • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, August 21, 2011 at 15:36 pm CEST
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A Foretaste of The New Democratic Egypt: Radical Nationalists and “Liberal Islamists”

There is still confusion regarding some details of the terrorist assault by Gaza Palestinians affiliated with al-Qaida… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Israel • Palestinian Terrorism 
Posted on Fri, July 22, 2011 at 20:39 pm CEST
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Oslo Bombing: Terror strikes Norway

European cities went on terror alert after the Norwegian prime minister’s office in Oslo was rocked Friday, July 22 by huge bomb explosions… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Norway 
Posted on Tue, June 14, 2011 at 00:48 am CEST
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Turkish Military High Command, Armed Forces Takes A Step Toward Islamism

Compare the election results from voters in the Turkish army general staff to that of the overall population… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:51 am CEST
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Here In One Sentence is What Obama Doesn’t Understand About the Middle East

The changes in the region are producing more extremism, not more moderation… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Tunisia • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 16:56 pm CEST
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Egypt: Christian Exodus

After the Egyptian Revolution, this is what the Copts in Egypt get… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Satire 
Posted on Sun, May 8, 2011 at 01:28 am CEST
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WikiLeaks: The Muslim Brothers in Syria: Could They Win an Election here?

In the wake of former VP Khaddam’s flirtation with the Muslim Brotherhood’s exiled leadership in January, and Hamas’s recent electoral victory… Continue reading

Topics: Muslim Brotherhood • Syria • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Sun, May 1, 2011 at 20:47 pm CEST
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Egypt: Pillar of Fire and Political Plagues Are Bad Signs

Gas flames shooting 65 feet high signal the birth of a new Middle East. That pillar of fire, unlike the Biblical one, indicates that Egyptians… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Gaza and Westbank • Muslim Brotherhood • Syria 
Posted on Thu, April 14, 2011 at 21:32 pm CEST
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Will Turkey’s Next Constitution be a Societal Covenant Imbued with Respect for Differences?

Agreeing upon the rules for how they are going to live together, with mutual respect for differences, is the fundamental challenge that faces… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Human Rights • Islamism • Kurdish People • PKK • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, April 13, 2011 at 17:15 pm CEST
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Reading Ahmadinejad in Riga

There’s nothing like having to explain a complex subject to people to improve one’s own understanding of the issues… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Communism • Egypt • Europe • Iran • Islamism • Latvia • Russian Federation • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, January 18, 2011 at 17:13 pm CET
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Medvedev makes ‘historic’ visit to ‘Disputed Territories’

The Russian Federation’s President Dmitry Medvedev visited the ‘disputed territories’ on a “historic” trip as part of his Middle East tour, CNN reported on Tuesday… Continue reading

Topics: Gaza and Westbank • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Palestinian Authority • Peace Process • Russian Federation • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, October 13, 2010 at 19:17 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Wants A Jihadi Generation That Pursues Death

When the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood–the main opposition group in Jordan and Egypt, and the most powerful Muslim group in Europe, calls for Jihad against the West, people better sit up and take notice… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Salafism • Wahhabism 
Posted on Mon, November 30, 2009 at 22:54 pm CET
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The United States and the Birth of Radical Islamism

Could it really be that the United States spent decades cultivating Islamists? And that it manipulated and double-crossed them, cynically using and misusing them as Cold War allies? And that all of this spawned a force that turned against its sponsor with a vengeance… Continue reading

Topics: United States of America