Books
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Reviews
1/12/2019 10:32:29 AM
James Barr, Lords of the Desert. Britain’s Struggle with America to dominate the Middle East, London: Simon & Schuster, 2018, pp401
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2018 / 2019
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12/31/2018 11:59:42 AM
While Israel continues to build settlements in Palestinian land under the protective wing of the White House, especially that of Trump, Palestinian and Arab resistance continue
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Opinion
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11/28/2018 6:07:20 PM
The emergence of three poles in the world order appears to be the trajectory. The question is, how will the Arabs position themselves
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World
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International
11/18/2018 8:06:14 PM
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Opinion
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11/16/2018 8:36:05 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron’s desire to form a unified European army may not receive the support of his partners in NATO or the European Union
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Opinion
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11/14/2018 8:16:02 PM
World War I, whose end in 1918 is being marked now, set off ripples that continue to be felt in the Arab and Muslim worlds
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Opinion
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11/10/2018 5:09:09 PM
Amid technological shifts, we may well witness not only the waning of a unipolar world, but the emergence of a tripolar one
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Opinion
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11/3/2018 9:26:57 PM
Almost 50 per cent of the world’s languages are now threatened by extinction, necessitating the introduction of urgent measures to protect them, writes
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Opinion
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11/1/2018 5:41:31 PM
US President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, but he could be making a massive miscalculation
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Business
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Economy
10/17/2018 5:24:36 PM
Economic and political cooperation was high on the agenda of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Vladimir Putin’s meeting this week
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Opinion
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10/11/2018 4:13:39 PM
The connection of Charles Aznavour to the Arab world, and Egypt in particular, was deep, but skipped in commentaries after his recent death
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World
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International
10/4/2018 12:01:33 PM
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Opinion
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10/3/2018 5:57:52 PM
What might be the purpose of the proposed Middle East Strategic Alliance bringing together Egypt, the US, Jordan and the Gulf states
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Opinion
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9/14/2018 4:32:00 PM
Is democracy in global recession? Will chauvinism drown out universalism? The age-old debate on the nature of the future world order continues
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Opinion
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9/14/2018 4:30:31 PM
Global and regional powers are increasingly looking to Africa to source development and investment projects on which they hope to reap significant profits
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Opinion
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9/13/2018 2:28:25 PM
Even those who differed with him ideologically expressed their admiration and respect for the late Egyptian economist and thinker Samir Amin
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World
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International
9/2/2018 9:32:47 AM
The successor states of the former Czechoslovakia are marking 50 years since the crushing of the Prague Spring by Warsaw Pact forces, writes David Tresilian in Prague
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World
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International
8/12/2018 1:22:00 PM
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Opinion
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8/8/2018 5:20:47 PM
The communist policies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have slashed the country’s economy in half, creating the biggest economic meltdown in its history
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Opinion
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8/1/2018 9:16:28 PM
The period of Nasser has come in for unprecedented criticism of late. Learning from the past is one thing, but it is perilous to oblige a nation to break from it
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