Middle East Monitor
clear
Free Subscription
Middle East Monitor

Creating new perspectives since 2009

Middle East Monitor

All Stories Archive

  • January 24, 2014

    The Price of Statelessness: Palestinian Refugees From Syria

    Tragedy and resistance have been linked to Palestinians’ history since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and it is no surprise that there is an organic relationship between the current...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    The Naqab: between deprivation and steadfastness

    The Naqab is located in southern Palestine and forms nearly two-thirds of its area, which amounts to 12 million dunams. It extends from the village of Al-Faluja, near Hebron...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    Why doesn't Syria retaliate against Israel?

    Israel’s recent attacks on more than forty locations around Damascus raise many questions about their timing, motives and goals. More puzzling, perhaps, has been the reaction of the Assad...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    Liberating Sinai is an overdue duty

    There should be no other way to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine than to call for the liberation of Sinai because of the close connection...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    From Egypt to Gaza: the gate and the key

    It’s been exactly a year since I was last in Gaza. In that time another terrible attack has been unleashed by the Israeli military and government on the trapped...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    Israel must take responsibility for the Nakba

    The Palestinian Nakba that befell its people in 1948 continues today. 65 years ago, thousands of defenceless Palestinians were killed in their homes, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed,...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    Should we go to Geneva?

    On May 7th, 2013, the United States and Russia agreed to hold an international conference to end the war and “prevent the dismantlement of Syria”. The agreement was announced...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    Foreign fighters in Syria… between religious duty and the Islamic political project

    Three years after the Syrian revolution began the number of foreign fighters in the ranks of the Free Syrian Army and revolutionary brigades have increased; however this so-called ‘immigration’...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    Iran: How to rig an election

    The election landscape in Iran is becoming increasingly clear. According to state-run Press TV, a whopping 686 candidates registered to run in the presidential poll. However, only eight men...

    Article

  • January 24, 2014

    It's better not to shut down the debate on collaboration between Zionists and anti-Semites

    In the age of the internet, it’s impossible to delete anything – as Al Jazeera discovered this week. Last Tuesday, Al Jazeera English published a long comment piece on...

    Article