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April 27, 2014

Ghosts in the ballot box: Lebanon’s presidential election

Ghosts of Lebanon’s civil war hung over the first round of voting in the country’s presidential election on Wednesday, when several ministers cast ballots bearing the names of men...

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April 27, 2014

Why the Russian-Iranian front is winning and everyone else is losing

We can no longer ignore the fact that we are witnessing a new cold war at an international level and that it is being led by the United States...

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April 27, 2014

Ghadames: Libya’s Saharan Secret

Ghadames, an oasis town in the heart of the Sahara desert is on the edge of Libya, close to both the Algerian and Tunisian borders. It is an extremely...

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April 27, 2014

Egyptian children – so young yet locked-up as ‘terrorists’

Very young children have been put in prison in Egypt; their rights granted by international conventions have been lost since the coup last year. You can see the marks...

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April 27, 2014

The Greatest Sin: The use of a just cause to justify injustice

One of the worst things for a just cause is for it to be exposed to a situation where it becomes impossible for justice to be achieved. As a...

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April 27, 2014

Spring time in Tulkarem as farms fight Israeli chemical factories

It is spring on the Tanib farm and the eskadenias or loquats – small sweet orange fruits – and the strawberries are perfectly ripe. Workers and volunteers who have...

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April 27, 2014

Rapprochement in the Gulf: who blinked first?

So who won the diplomatic war of words that threatened to fragment the Gulf Cooperation Council, and make a nonsense of its name? Did the Saudis step back from...

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April 27, 2014

Open letter to Egypt’s ‘Committee of Fifty’

Dear members of the Committee of Fifty (“Lagna Al-Khamseen”), in the beginning, you told us that your constitution is one that is filled with unprecedented freedoms that could not...

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April 27, 2014

Israel, settler violence and calculated differentiation

Settler-colonial violence has rarely prompted any condemnation from Israel and its institutions. Regularly dismissed as isolated incidents despite the constant phenomenon and its deleterious effects upon Palestinians, settler violence...

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April 27, 2014

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day remains central

Thursday here in Palestine was Prisoners’ Day, and demonstrations of solidarity were held across the West Bank and Gaza. The annual event calls for the release of Palestinian political...

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