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  • May 4, 2014

    Morsi faces his first diplomatic tests

    After exactly a month in office, President Mohamed Morsi’s honeymoon period has come to an abrupt end. Diplomatic snares are popping up in all directions. That his earliest foreign...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    What killed Yasser Arafat? France could find the truth

    The best opportunity to definitively prove What Killed Arafat – the name we gave the documentary investigation that appeared on al-Jazeera earlier this month – is fast approaching. The...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Banning Islamist politicians is not the answer

    Israel has learnt nothing from the Arab Spring. This week, its army commander, Avi Mizrahi, issued a military order classifying the Islamist Change and Reform bloc as an illegal...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Israel ignites the tinderbox of religious conflict

    Has the struggle for occupied Jerusalem finally revealed its religious character? The recent claim by Israel’s Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, that Al-Asqa Mosque is part of Israeli territory has...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    The three pillars of Egypt

    The Arab world has recently gone through its most anxious period since the start of the Arab spring 19 months ago. People held their breath before their television screens,...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    I have today become the president of all Egyptians

    My people of great Egypt, who today celebrate democracy in our country; those of you standing in the public squares, in Tahrir Square, and all the public squares of...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Israel: promised land for Jews ... as long as they're not black?

    Abstract: While the subjugation and abuse of Palestinians living within Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are well documented, what is less well known is how ingrained racism...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Palestinians and the Egyptian elections

    For the moment everything is on hold in Palestine. In the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip, there is a tense wait to see how things unfold...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Time for Egypt to unite against the military

    Millions of Egyptians went to bed last night thinking they had elected a president with full executive powers and woke up this morning in a military dictatorship. Just after...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Egypt plunges towards the unknown

    The ruling by Egypt’s Constitutional Court that dissolves the country’s parliament and allows the presidential candidacy of Ahmad Shafiq, the former Mubarak prime minister, has cast serious doubts over...

    Commentary & Analysis