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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15/01/2009 Article

Questions for Barack Obama

The hallmark of liberal societies is that they require obeisance to the same principles they are, in extremis, loathe to adopt. The respect for human life is one of these.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Democracy, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration

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Bitter Lemons, January 15, 2009 We await the arrival of Barack Obama. Some believe he will work wonders. Others aren’t so sure. This uncertainty has

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06/11/2008 Article

Little Shop of Horrors

I once asked one of my Palestinian friends what he thought the United States should do to help the peoples of the Middle East. He was incredulous: “Haven’t you done enough?”

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Diplomacy, Middle East

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Bitter Lemons, November 6, 2008 I once asked one of my Palestinian friends what he thought the United States should do to help the peoples

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03/03/2008 Article

[PAL-ah-STIN-ians]

Bush is first to note that he regularly mangles language (“Syria Leone”) but there is a lurking suspicion that his fumbling masks a deeper sense of American entitlement.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Middle East

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Bitter Lemons, February 21, 2008 While it may be difficult to remember, George W. Bush was once considered a debater who could match wits with

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22/01/2008 Article

Nasrallah Forecasts the Prospect of Coming Conflict

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Tags: Bush Administration, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria

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On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is

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03/01/2008 Article

Dependency Politics

The $7.4 billion of assistance to the Palestinian “government” pledged by donors is another type of European dependency “help” – “a punitive construct devised to constrain Palestinian aspirations.”

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Middle East

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Bitter Lemons, January 3, 2008 “I can’t see what more the international community can do to help,” the exasperated official in Brussels complained as she

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14/10/2007 Article

Ticking Clocks and ‘Accidental’ War

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, Syria

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An edited version of this article appeared in the October edition of US/ME Policy Brief, US/Middle East Project. Whilst Washington looks at the Iranian prospects

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07/10/2007 Article

Secularism and Islamism in the Arab World

/ Sukant Chandan

Tags: Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in Iraq, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinians, Political Islam, Secularism

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Secularism in the political leadership in the Arab world has had a very short life-span if put into historical context. It became a dominant political

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25/08/2007 Article

Nasrallah’s Speech Marking the End of the July War

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Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Israel-Hezbollah war, Middle East

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On August 14, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech marking the end of the July 2006 war. The following is

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