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Jumblatt turns down the heat on Druze
The year 2004 marked an unexpected turn by Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze religious community, against his longtime patrons in Damascus and its allies...
25-Sep-2009
Bashar manages his taxing inheritance
Despite numerous coups d'état in the past, Syria's political system today is stable. Indeed, since Hafez Assad seized power in November 1970, politics in Syria...
24-Sep-2009
The West and Hamas/Fatah split
By now the process has become familiar. Every few months Egyptian middlemen host a round of talks between the bitterly divided Palestinian factions. Sometimes, these...
27-Jul-2009
Questions about Hizbullah unity
The 12 February 2008 assassination in Damascus of Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah's long-time operations chief, was a major blow to the organisation. The killing exposed failures...
21-May-2009
Lebanon's March 14 coalition faces test
As Lebanon anticipates the next parliamentary election in June 2009, a lively domestic debate has emerged as to where the election results will take the...
17-Apr-2009
Why the race is on to rebuild Gaza
As the smoke clears in Gaza and damage assessments of the three-week Israeli military campaign roll in, perhaps inevitably, comparisons are being drawn between Israel's...
20-Feb-2009
Salafis' social networking in Lebanon
Salafis in Lebanon are a legitimate and officially recognised part of the domestic social fabric. They are Sunni Muslims who believe that the imitation of...
19-Feb-2009
Is Syria all talk and no action?
On 27 September 2008, a suicide bomber driving a dark red suburban GMC car blew up his vehicle on a crossroads in southern Damascus, killing...
09-Jan-2009
Mixing religion and politics in the Holy Land
At the core, the Israelis and Palestinians have been waging the same ceaseless battle for decades: who controls the land between the Mediterranean Sea and...
08-May-2008
Turkey reaches out to Muslim neighbours
Early indications from Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP), which assumed governance for the second time in July 2007, make it...
21-Feb-2008
Israeli-Arabs: state discrimination and alienation
In October 2000, the city of Sakhnin in Israel's North District became a flashpoint of popular support for the Palestinian cause when police forces clashed...
18-Feb-2008
Turkish military seeks Armenia detente
The assassination of a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink, on 19 January 2007 in Istanbul renewed attention on Turkey's troubled relations with its small ...
09-Feb-2007
Gemayel's assassination fans the flames in Lebanon
In any political assassination in Lebanon, there is invariably an abundance of suspects. Sectarian hatreds, clan blood feuds, political power struggles, business rivalries and ...
14-Dec-2006
Iranian Jews shaping Israeli policy
As the threat of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities continues to cast a shadow over the Middle East, the mood among Israel's ...
02-Oct-2006
Rage and Britain's young Muslims
As terrorism inspired by radical Islam and directed against Western interests has increased in the years following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the ...
25-Aug-2006
Turkey's 'Muslim democrats'
The achievements and failures of Turkey's Islamist Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP) will be judged at the country's next parliamentary ...
22-Aug-2006
An Israeli perception of the essence of Arabs
At the height of the fighting in Lebanon on 30 July the Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Gideon Meir began a BBC interview by denying ...
21-Aug-2006
Noose tightens on Israel's Arabs
On 14 May, Israel's Independence Day, the country's Supreme Court narrowly upheld an amendment to the Nationality Law of 1952. By a six to ...
23-Jun-2006
The faultlines in Arab media analysis
Those who follow the output of the Arab media sooner or later become aware of what might loosely be termed a preoccupation with nationalism ...
23-Jun-2006
*Moderating hand needed to guide Hamas and Israel to peace table
Hamas' victory at the Palestinian Authority elections in January presented the movement with a serious dilemma. How does a party devoted to resistance now govern ...
17-May-2006
Tribal structures and demographics in Afghanistan
Those seeking to overlay a Western democratic ideal upon Afghanistan would be wise to examine its diverse tribal history. In the first of a multi-part...
24-Feb-2006
A fundamental schism in Islamism?
The surprise victory of Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections on 26 January and the success of the Muslim Brotherhood in the December 2005 elections...
17-Feb-2006
Egypt's opposition Kifaya in 2006
The Egyptian Movement for Change, more commonly known as Kifaya (Enough), represents Egypt's largest independent organised secular opposition movement. However, the paucity of its support...
24-Jan-2006
The fallout from the Amman bombings
The weeks following the 9 November bombings of three hotels in Amman, which resulted in the deaths of 62 people (including the three suicide bombers)...
15-Dec-2005
Iran's Iraqi Interests
Iran and Iraq have had an acrimonious relationship for decades, dating back to the establishment of the Iraqi state in 1932. After a period of...
14-Dec-2005
Sectarianism and politics in Egypt
"Any pig priest who controls a church and makes a speech… is to present himself as a sacrificial lamb within 72 hours." So ran an...
25-Nov-2005
Referendum tests Sunni faith in democracy
Despite well-founded concerns about electoral fraud, the final result of Iraq's national plebiscite on the passage of its draft constitution was never seriously in doubt....
11-Nov-2005
Syria faces tough balancing act
Syria currently faces several simultaneous diplomatic dilemmas that threaten to leave President Bashar al-Assad isolated. Damascus has been heavily implicated in the UN Security Council's...
28-Oct-2005
Turkey looks beyond the US
Relations between the US and Turkey are marked by underlying tensions that could potentially reshape the longstanding strategic partnership. With the second-largest military in NATO...
30-Sep-2005
Violence in Israel portends trouble ahead
As Israel's self-declared deadline for the withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza neared, one of its biggest fears came to fruition with the murder of...
26-Aug-2005
Kurds may hold key to Syria's stability
As the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad is assailed by the US administration of President George W Bush, which appears to be determined ...
27-Jul-2005
Turbulent times ahead for Lebanon
Lebanon has undergone political changes in recent months that, for the Middle East, have been breathtaking. Popular anger over Syrian domination, an occupation in ...
26-Jul-2005
West moves to protect Ceyhan pipeline from Islamist foes
Summary A major new oil pipeline linking the landlocked Caspian with the Mediterranean Sea has opened for business. Implications The line may well...
29-Jun-2005
Syria losing its fragile grip on Lebanon
Although many Lebanese and foreign powers are hinting at Syrian involvement in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, Damascus had too much to lose. The ...
07-Mar-2005
EAST MEDITERRANEAN - Is Egypt going nuclear?
An argument doing the international rounds is that Egypt could go 'nuclear' if it wished to do so. Indeed, questioned on the issue recently, several...
28-Jan-2005
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