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21/11/2011 Publication

Understanding Hizbullah’s Support for the Asad Regime

/ Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

Tags: Hezbollah, Syria

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01/07/2011 Publication

An Examination of Iran’s Commitment to the Palestinian Cause

/ Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

Tags: Iran, Palestinians, Political Islam

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01/11/2009 Publication

Businessmen Posing as Revolutionaries: General Dayton and the “new Palestinian Breed”

/ Aisling Byrne

Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama administration

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12/06/2009 Publication

Why the Saudi Shiites Won’t Rise Up Easily

/ Leo Kwarten

Tags: Saudi Arabia, Shiites

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Shiite citizens face considerable religious, political and social discrimination in Saudi society. In the 1970s and 1980s, this situation has instigated bloody street protests and

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01/05/2009 Publication

Evolving Currents in Salafism and Shi’ism

/ Various authors

Tags: Salafism, Shi'ism

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Pages from a meeting held in Beirut, May 2009

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01/02/2009 Publication

Arab Christians in the Levant and their Relationship with Muslims

/ Ghassan Shami

Tags: Christians, Middle East, Salafism

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01/01/2009 Publication

Western Media Representations, Iran, and Orientalist Stereotypes

/ Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Tags: Iran, Media

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The image of Iran is almost always negative in the western media. Whether it is the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, the International Herald

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01/01/2009 Publication

Wahhabism, Salafism and Islamism: Who is the Enemy?

/ Professor Ahmad Moussalli

Tags: Islamists, Political Islam, Salafism, Wahhabism

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This essay constructs and deconstructs three main discourses created by different and opposing trends in modern Islamic thought that are normally and mistakenly lumped together

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01/11/2008 Publication

Loving the Enemy: Militant Visions of the West

/ Faisal Devji

Tags: Al Qaeda, Dialogue, Diplomacy

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This paper makes the argument that militants associated with Al-Qaeda speak from within the world of their enemies and possess no place outside it. Whether

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