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How democracy loses its footing in Middle East

I found myself chatting some time ago with Theresa Loar, who ran the State Department’s women’s office, when she told me about how she had tricked other senior officials in the building...

How small steps can pave the way to democracy in the Middle East

Almost a decade ago, near the end of the Clinton administration, I was chatting with Theresa Loar, who ran the State Department’s women’s office, and she told me about how she had tricked other senior officials in the building..

Reply to an article of Dr. Mohamed Habib

I tried to reply to the article of Dr. Mohamed Habib about Erdogan’s stanse, but I couldn’t. Please publish this..

Al-Raya Interview With Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Over Gaza Crisis

For a year and a half the Israeli leadership had been planning to encroach upon Gaza with the aim of eliminating Hamas and breaking its will. However, its expectations were failed as its army failed to achieve any political or military victory after learning an unforgettable historical lesson of firmness and confrontation by the resistance...

Does the BBC Still Have A Reason To Exist?

Growing up in Britain I always considered the BBC as one of the essential elements of British life. When travelling abroad I couldn’t help but miss my favourite, familiar TV shows. Rather than a mere conduit of cultural activity the BBC was an essential part of the nation’s culture. ..

Is political islam a threat to the west?

The program was chaired by the award-winning former BBC correspondent and interviewer Tim Sebastian, who founded Doha Debates in 2004, and secured their editorial independence. Known for being the first host of the BBC’s flagship interview program “Hardtalk”, for which he was twice named Interviewer of the Year by the Royal Television Society, Sebastian has also won the Society’s Television Journalist of the Year award, as well as a British Academy award for contributions to factual te..

Minding the power of rhetoric

No newspaper in Turkey has acted earlier or more strongly than the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review in questioning the danger of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s anti-Israel rhetoric during and in the aftermath of the latest Gaza war...

Facebook As a Platform for Anti-Establishment Protests in Egypt

She uses the protests during the Israel-Palestine Gaza crisis as a starting point to outline a history of online activism in Egypt and specifically looks at how Facebook — the third most-visited website in Egypt with almost 800,000 members, almost a tenth of Egypt’s online population — has become the center of anti-Mubarak dissent in the country. ..

Israel Accused of War Crimes

"The UN is deeply implicated in the injustices and violations of rights of the Palestinians over the last six decades," he said. "It is not at all clear that the General Assembly had the legal authority to partition Palestine, and the plan it passed in 1947 violated the rights of the indigenous people of Palestine to self-determination. ..

The Old Testament and the Genocide in Gaza

There is not much doubt amongst Biblical scholars that the Hebrew Bible contains some highly charged non-ethical suggestions, some of which are no less than a call for a genocide. Biblical scholar Raymund Schwager has found in the Old Testament 600 passages of explicit violence, 1000 descriptive verses of God’s own violent actions of punishment, 100 passages where God expressly commands others to kill people. Apparently, violence is the most often mentioned activity in the Hebrew Bi..

34 journalists killed in 2008

The following individuals have been killed in 2008 because of their work as journalists. They either died in the line of duty or were deliberately targeted for assassination because of their reporting or their affiliation with a news organization. ..

The following individuals have been killed in 2008 because of their work as journalists

The attack came during a visit by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr St?re, who was in the hotel but was uninjured. Four hotel guards, a U.S. national, an Afghan guest, and a Philippine spa director also died in the attack, according to news reports. Two of the bombers died as well. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that St?re was the intended target. The Norwegian government held that St?re was not specifically targeted and that the attack was aimed at the country’s foreign ..

War in Gaza: no upside for Egypt

In an effort to insulate itself from the domestic criticism sure to come and the inevitable calls to take some sort of punitive action against Israel, the Egyptians almost immediately summoned Shalom Cohen, Jerusalem’s ambassador in Cairo, for a dressing down with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. In addition, in order to avoid the public relations disaster they experienced when Hamas breached Egypt’s border with Gaza last January, the Egyptians swung open the Rafah crossing to facil..

The Truth About Those Hamas Rockets

A few days ago, Israel trotted out only an infinitesimally more credible excuse -- the Hamas rockets case -- as justification for its own murderous shock and awe in Gaza, a long-planned campaign perniciously aimed at ousting a “regime” that came to power via popular, democratic vote. ..

Action Alert: Twenty-Six Things to Help Gaza

So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian areas issued a statement that "The Israeli air-strikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva..

Digital Democracy in Chile and Egypt

In the United States social media tools have impacted presidential campaigns since the Presidential Election in 2000. Philip Howard points out on his book New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen that after the election in 2000, exit polls showed that “a third of the electorate had used the internet to learn about the ..

Islamists at the Gate, But It’s Okay

The Islamic Courts Union is crude and conservative but most Somalis welcomed a government after the lawlessness that has persisted in Somalia with the absence of a formal government since 1991. The United States under the guise of fighting terrorism supported an Ethiopian-backed counterinsurgency that has unseated the government and left Somalia divided once more between warlords. The fear of Islamists has once more driven the West, mainly the United States, to implement policies that ..

Where is your conscience america?

The Iraqi prisoners of war in U.S. occupation jails in Iraq are being exposed to torture, lynching and assassination at the hands of the reactionary sectarian "Criminal Court". This Court was created by the United States of America to kill the legitimate Leadership of Iraq and pave the way for dividing Iraq and erasing its Arab identity. In order to seize control over it and steal its resources, the occupiers had to distort its history and create puppet entities to serve its bidding..

Voices of America: U.S. Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century

For generations, America’s standing in the world has been a source of strength, security, prosperity, and legitimacy. That standing is now in peril, according to a wide range of studies that span the political spectrum. America’s tarnished international reputation carries a price. Whether the United States seeks to draw more allied troops to Afghanistan, win votes in international organizations, or undermine support for terrorists, anti- American attitudes obstruct the achievement of n..

Resolving America’s Islamist Dilemma:Lessons from South and Southeast Asia

U.S. efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East have long been paralyzed by the “Islamist dilemma”: in theory, we want democracy, but, in practice, fear that Islamist parties will be the prime beneficiaries of any political opening. The most tragic manifestation of this was the Algerian debacle of 1991 and 1992, when the United States stood silently while the staunchly secular military canceled elections after an Islamist party won a parliamentary majority. More recently, the Bush..