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Month: July 2012
Whose Egypt is It Anyway?
By Deepak Tripathi After a tantalizing delay, Egypt’s military authorities accepted the inevitable. Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared elected as president a week ago and took the oath of office on Saturday […]
Hamas and Jordan: Winds of Change, Uncertainty
By Ramzy Baroud The official Jordanian media has described a recent meeting between King Abdullah of Jordan and exiled Hamas leader, Khalid Mesha’al, as if it were a routine exchange of ideas. But neither Petra, […]
Key Interests Prevent Russia from Abandoning Syria
By Nikolas K. Gvosdev After months of diplomatic exchanges, public shaming at the United Nations, even a direct tête-à-tête between presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, […]
84-year Journey from Cairo’s Mosques to Presidential Palace
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan More than half a century after the 1952 Jamal Abdel-Nasser coup, Egypt has come full circle. The people have the same grievances that led the Free Officers to take the advantage […]
‘Those Damn Palestinians’
By Sam Bahour Those damn Palestinians. They refuse to sit still. They just don’t get it. They are unable to fathom their reality. The more outrageous their situation becomes, the more human they become. When […]
Perpetual Peace
By Neve Gordon Last year I gave the Israeli artist Amir Nave an old Hebrew copy of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, which I teach every so often in my Introduction to Political Theory class. He […]