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The New Pan-Arabism

Political pan-Arabism was a failure. Will poplar pan-Arabism be more successful? Will Arab solidarity be more than an empty slogan? Three developments are necessary at this historic moment if the Arab Revolution is to succeed, writes Patrick Seale...

What Must Abu Mazen Do?

Abu Mazen, president of the Palestinian Authority, is in deep trouble. He is in search of a strategy. After visits to Germany, Britain and Russia in recent months, and consultations with Arab leaders, he is coming to Paris on 21-22 February in what looks like an increasingly desperate bid for support...

Dangerous Hysteria over Iran's Nuclear Program

Arab states have no wish to see a nuclear-capable Iran, but they are far more frightened of an Iranian-Israeli war, which could have devastating consequences for the security and stability of the region and for Arab oil exports. The more Iran is threatened, the more defiant it becomes -- and the more remote the chance of an agreement, notes Patrick Seale...

Talking to the Taliban

The new Afghan strategy marks a fresh start but great obstacles to a peaceful settlement - and no doubt a lot more fighting - still lie ahead, says Patrick Seale...

War on Four Fronts

Many experts believe that provoking the West into attacking Muslim countries is precisely al-Qaeda’s strategy...

The Palestinians Should Negotiate

No objective observer can claim that Netanyahu’s partial freeze is anything but a cynical manoeuvre...

The Rise and Rise of Turkey

One way and another, a resurgent Turkey is rewriting the rules of the power game in the Middle East, in a positive and non-confrontational manner. This is one of the few bright spots in a turbulent and highly-inflammable Middle East, says Patrick Seale...

Obama’s Arab and Muslim Strategy

Obama has chosen to focus on four interconnected subjects: the deadlocked Arab-Israeli conflict; the fraught relationship with Iran; the tangle of problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan; and the urgent need to restore respect for America’s system of justice..

Arab intellectuals and the State

Amid the clamour and blood-letting in the Middle East - carnage in Iraq, fratricidal brawls in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon’s unhealed wounds and so much more - another less publicised battle is being waged: that of enlightened Arab intellectuals against the mindless taboos and conservative governments under which many of them live...