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January 24, 2014

Suspicious organisations in Egypt

On Tuesday, the Cairo criminal court sentenced 43 defendants to 1 – 5 years in jail over a foreign funding case. The defendants were of American, German and Egyptian...

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January 24, 2014

Was civil war predictable in Syria?

Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal in January 2011 that his country is immune to the so-called “Arab Spring” that had already started in Tunisia and...

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January 24, 2014

Marching for dignity: Thousands take action against the occupation of Palestine

Gaza – 46 years ago this month, Israel seized East Jerusalem, the home of many significant holy sites for Muslims, Christians and Jews, as well as the proposed capital...

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January 24, 2014

Jordan...before it's too late

Perhaps the Jordanian regime believed it had escaped from the bottleneck and survived the reform process that has swept the Arab region acting as an inevitable fate that can...

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January 24, 2014

Politicians should admit Israel's real intentions, which are nothing to do with peace

In recent days, Israel has been embarrassed by remarks made by senior officials, which appear to contradict the commonly-pushed government stand on the conflict with the Palestinians. One official...

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January 24, 2014

As the violence in Syria continues, increasing numbers of academics seek refuge in the UK

“Assad or we burn the country” said the Syrian dictator from the outset of the revolution. A grim promise made in 2011 that if the demonstrations didn’t stop he...

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January 24, 2014

The Syrian conflict threatens to widen from Basra to Beirut

For the past 27 months Syria has witnessed blood, destruction, bravery and patience. The Syrians took to the streets, as did their brothers and sisters in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen...

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January 24, 2014

Reclaiming Palestinian collective memory of the Nakba

The treachery and massacres committed by the Zionists against Palestinians in 1948 marked an enforced physical disappearance of indigenous Palestinians, strengthening the myth of the barren land and the...

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January 24, 2014

Notes on the idea of a land swap with Israel

The Arab League’s agreement to the idea of a land swap between the Palestinian Authority and Israel as part of any possible peace agreement between the two has prompted...

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January 24, 2014

What does Rouhani's victory in the Iranian election mean?

As was widely predicted, reformist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the first round of the Iranian presidential election, gaining more than half of the votes cast. This outcome was not...

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