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By Na’eem Jeenah Everywhere people have been fascinated with how rapidly, and with such resolve, the people of Tunisia and Egypt have overthrown repressive regimes,
By Rashid Khalidi Towards the end of his long, eventful life, in 1402, the renowned Arab historian Ibn Khaldun was in Damascus. He left us
By Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn The US engagement in Afghanistan, its longest war to date, has come under increasing criticism in the
By Lamis Andoni The resounding defeat of the Democratic Party in the United States midterm congressional elections has clearly weakened President Barack Obama’s hand on
By Muneer Shafiq Russian-Arab relations, although having strategic significance for both parties, do not hold the same level of strategic value for either. Furthermore, such
By Olivier Da Lage We have to admit that there was a pre-AlJazeera era and a post-AlJazeera era. There is no doubt that the start
By Fawaz A. Gerges In an important and alarming report to the United Nations Security Council early July, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that an increase
By Fawaz A. Gerges Exactly a year ago, in June 2009, the then-recently installed American president, Barack Obama, made a landmark speech in Cairo symbolically
By Na’eem Jeenah The much-anticipated speech by US president Barack Obama to ‘the Muslim world’ was a well-presented mixture of rich symbolism, a call for
By Aslam Farouk-Alli President George W. Bush’s now infamous Baghdad media conference on the 14 December 2008 may aptly be reframed as the story of
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