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May 18, 2019
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Azzam Tamimi
The Palestinian problem finds its roots in the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, one of a series of catastrophic map-changing events associated with the First World War. The vectors...
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September 26, 2017
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Azzam Tamimi
On 1 April 2008, I learned that the authorities in Egypt had ordered Alhiwar TV channel to be removed from Nilesat, the Egyptian-owned satellite, one of three through which...
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February 3, 2017
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Azzam Tamimi
I had just been appointed a senior lecturer at the UK-based Markfield Institute of Higher Education in the autumn of 2000 when the newly appointed director, Dr. Zaghlul Al-Najjar,...
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December 14, 2016
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Azzam Tamimi
The people of Aleppo, like the majority of Syrians, rose against tyranny after they saw fellow Arabs in Tunisia and Egypt topple their own tormentors. Their revolution began peacefully and...
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December 9, 2016
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Azzam Tamimi
To dislike Islam and the Muslims, even to hate them, is one thing. To speak out of utter ignorance about them is something else. According to recently released video...
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September 17, 2016
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Azzam Tamimi
The roots of Ennahda are found in Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyah (the Islamic Group), a small da'wah (missionary) and reform community made up of Tunisian individuals who in the late 1960s...
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July 8, 2016
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Azzam Tamimi
Thirteen years ago, Britain's then prime minister Tony Blair relied on false evidence to justify taking the United Kingdom to war. For reasons perhaps better known to him than...
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December 19, 2015
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Azzam Tamimi
Nothing can explain British Prime Minister's David Cameron’s hostile attitude towards the Muslim Brotherhood other than that he is succumbing to pressure, even blackmail, from the oil-rich Gulf Arab...
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July 21, 2015
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Azzam Tamimi
Liberation movements past and present are sources of inspiration for people whose struggle is still ongoing. Although the Palestine-Israel conflict is far from resolved, for many decades quite a...
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October 26, 2014
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Azzam Tamimi
Five and a half years before Jordan signed its peace treaty with Israel at Wadi Araba in October 1994, the country saw the eruption of its first major revolution...
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August 29, 2014
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Azzam Tamimi
First: For the people of Gaza, the recent ceasefire deal between the resistance and Israel did not accomplish all they were seeking. Yet, at the same time, it achieved...
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July 22, 2014
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Azzam Tamimi
Some dedicated PhD student in a decade or two might be able to discern truth from falsehood in the Israeli narrative as to why the recent war on Gaza...
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July 14, 2014
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Azzam Tamimi
At 9pm on Saturday, Palestinians in Hebron and other West Bank towns took to the roofs to watch what Hamas's military wing promised would be a missile attack on...
![Palestinians take part in a protest within the "Great March of Return" and "Palestinian Land Day" demonstrations in east of Shuja'iyya neighborhood, Gaza City, Gaza on March 30, 2019 [Ali Jadallah / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190330_2_35731644_43122584.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Palestinian problem finds its roots in the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, one of a series of catastrophic map-changing events associated with the First World War. The vectors...![Image of the Tunisian Revolution that took place in January 2011 [Chris Belsten/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2011_1_25-Tunisian-Revolution-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I had just been appointed a senior lecturer at the UK-based Markfield Institute of Higher Education in the autumn of 2000 when the newly appointed director, Dr. Zaghlul Al-Najjar,...![Image of Michael Flynn at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Phoenix, Arizona [Gage Skidmore / Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Michael_Flynn_30020745053-e1481292221257.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
To dislike Islam and the Muslims, even to hate them, is one thing. To speak out of utter ignorance about them is something else. According to recently released video...
Nothing can explain British Prime Minister's David Cameron’s hostile attitude towards the Muslim Brotherhood other than that he is succumbing to pressure, even blackmail, from the oil-rich Gulf Arab...
Five and a half years before Jordan signed its peace treaty with Israel at Wadi Araba in October 1994, the country saw the eruption of its first major revolution...
Some dedicated PhD student in a decade or two might be able to discern truth from falsehood in the Israeli narrative as to why the recent war on Gaza...
At 9pm on Saturday, Palestinians in Hebron and other West Bank towns took to the roofs to watch what Hamas's military wing promised would be a missile attack on...