Dennis Ross: Saudi king vowed to obtain nuclear bomb after Iran
By Chemi Shalev | May.30, 2012 | 9:50 AM | 30 Former senior U.S. diplomat…
Monthly Archives: May, 2012
Reports of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Demise were Greatly Exaggerated
In the run-up to the first round of Egypt’s presidential elections, which concluded on Thursday,…
President Gül: “Separate politics and religion”
It is becoming increasingly important to debate the subject of secularism in Turkey, especially at…
قراءة في عملية اختطاف اللبنانيين في حلب
إن المتابع لعملية الاختطاف والمدقق في حيثياتها لا بد أن يسجّل الملاحظات والمفارقات والتساؤلات الآتية:…
The Clerics VS. Modernity
While the Islamic Republic’s soft power fails, the Iranian people’s urge to integrate into world…
Syria’s Crisis Reaches Beirut
The latest clashes in Beirut show that as long as the Syrian conflict persists, Lebanon’s…
Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network
The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old…
Confessionalism Orchestrates the Freedom in Lebanon
The story of Benin Kataya is a great sign of the relativity in the practice…
Syria lets loose a bogeyman on Tripoli’s troubled streets
The fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in recent days has been intimately…
Flooding Out Terror? Turkey’s Ilisu Dam Project
The Ilisu Dam project could enter the annals of counterterrorism as history’s first “hydro-victory.” *…
Developments in the Case of Sheikh H. Mchaymech
1. The fifth session of Sheikh Hassan Mchaymech’s trial was held on Friday, May 11,…
Gulf Arab Leaders Meet to Discuss Syria and Iran
The upcoming GCC meeting in Riyadh reflects concern about events in Syria, fear of Iran,…
Sarko d’Arabie
Toward the end of the lengthy debate on Wednesday night between France’s presidential candidates, President…
Blank Barack
The American commentator Thomas L. Friedman was in Beirut this week and had two interesting…