Archive for October, 2009
Yemen: A slogan and six wars
By Khaled Fattah
Yemen, the weakest, least developed and most tribal Middle Eastern state is battling for the sixth time a Shi’ite Zaydi rebellion in the mountainous north bordering Saudi Arabia.
The violent rebellion is drawing the attention of regional and international actors to the formidable set of threats confronting the sole republic in the […]
Posted: October 28th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.
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Nukes aside, the real problem with Iran
By Alastair Crooke
The country is emerging as a regional power. Is the West ready for that?
It was pure drama: The leaders of the United States, Britain, and France stepped onto the stage at the Pittsburgh Group of 20 meeting last week to unveil Western intelligence that showed that Iran had a second nuclear fuel enrichment […]
Posted: October 18th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Disarmament, Iran, Obama administration.
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Political Islamic and Jihadi Movements
Sheikh Chafiq Jaredah
Director, Institute for Sapiential Knowledge for Religious and Philosophical Studies, Beirut
In His name be He exalted
It is appropriate to adopt caution, and to beware making hasty analysis, when it comes to passing judgment on problematic issues, whose dimensions, meanings and significance are unclear: One such issue that falls into this zone requiring caution […]
Posted: October 18th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Political Islam.
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Will Fatah – as much as Israel – be the target of the next intifada?
A commentary by Ben White
For the best part of half a century, Fatah dominated Palestinian politics. Israeli attempts to extinguish the movement failed; rivals were co-opted or sidelined. But gradually, as the Oslo years gave way to the Second Intifada, the peace process went up in smoke and Hamas emerged as a genuine contender for […]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Fatah.
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