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• Osama bin Laden, the prophet of poetic terrorism

  Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

  Last March, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah has given U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, the Order of Merit Arabia. This act has resulted in hundreds of messages on the internet by Arabs who condemned the award of this honor as a betrayal, and lamented the sad state of leadership in the Arab world. To [...]

Tags: Al-Qaeda, Arab States System, Arab world, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism

• The West, Iran and the nuclear dilemma

  Sunday, October 11th, 2009

  The much awaited dialogue with Iran, whose first stage was consumed last week with the meeting in Geneva between the leaders of Tehran and the so-called 5 +1 group (the 5 permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany), seems to have had an unexpectedly good start, after that, in the days before, tensions and [...]

Tags: China, History, Iran, Israel, Military, Negotiations, Nuclear proliferation, Russia, Sanctions, the Palestinian Issue, United States

• Davutoglu between Arabs and Mottaki: Iran-Turkish competition in the Arab world

  Thursday, October 8th, 2009

  Ahmet Davutoglu and Manuchehr Mottaki, to which we refer in the title of this article, are respectively the Turkish foreign minister – and inspired the new foreign policy of Ankara towards the Arab world – and the Iranian foreign minister – one of the columns’ current regime in power in Tehran.

Tags: Arab world, Arabian Peninsula, Bilateral Relations, Cooperation, International Diplomacy, Iran, Israel, Sectarian Tensions, Turkey

• How to make headway with Tehran

  Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

  The revelation by the Iranian regime that Iran is pursuing the construction of a second uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom has dealt a blow to the already faltering efforts of Obama to open a dialogue with Tehran . The United States today still cling more firmly to the vain hope that [...]

Tags: Barack Obama, Bilateral Relations, Energy Policy, Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear proliferation, Sanctions, United States

• A realistic attitude on Middle East oil

  Sunday, September 27th, 2009

  TEL AVIV – No matter how the powers are becoming important emerging oil outside the Middle East region will remain for years the main source of energy worldwide. Unlike Russia, the Middle East members of OPEC acting as a cartel, which produces well below capacity. At current levels of production, Russia will be out of [...]

Tags: Arab-Islamic World, Economics, Energy Policy, Environment, Fundamentalism, Iran, Military, Nuclear proliferation, Oil Issues, Saudi Arabia, Security, United States

• Arab-Israeli conflict: water for peace

  Thursday, September 17th, 2009

  Just days after the death of his father, Syrian President Bashar Al Assad was asked to give a ranking of the problems related to the dispute between Syria and Israel. “Israel sort out its priorities as follows: safety, land and water,” he said. “But the truth is different. Israelis consider water as the most important [...]

Tags: Arab world, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cooperation, Environment, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Water Resources

• The Chinese Turkestan and the problem of minorities in Central Asia

  Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

  The violence and unrest that erupted last week in Urumqi – the capital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, north-west of China – for a few days have brought international attention on this forgotten region in the heart of Central Asia.
  Beyond the contingent reasons that led to the bloody incidents in recent days, what has happened [...]

Tags: Central Asia, China, Cultural Identity, Energy Policy, Fundamentalism, Modernity, Muslim Minorities, Russia, Terrorism, Turkey, Xinjiang

• How Afghanistan Can Avoid Becoming another Vietnam

  Saturday, September 12th, 2009

  Though the dreaded Taliban leader, Baitullah Masood, may have been killed, the Taliban is still very much in control.
  The various groups collectively known as the Taliban are deeply entrenched in much of the Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan even after the recent killing of Taliban leaders, the offensive by the U.S. military in Afghanistan’s [...]

Tags: Afghanistan, Becoming, Vietnam

• Iraq is at a crossroads

  Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

  Just two months after the redeployment of American troops, which on June 30 have completed their withdrawal from the cities, Iraq is at the confluence of a series of events that could be crucial in shaping the future of the country.
  While there were only recently (late July) the legislative and presidential elections in the [...]

Tags: Domestic Policy, Elections, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurds, Reconciliation, Security, Shiites, Sunnis, Syria

• Terrorist groups in Egypt – second thoughts and reintegration

  Monday, September 7th, 2009

  When, after years of bloody confrontations with the state in 1997, the leaders of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, the Islamic group most aggressive of Egypt, subsequently called a unilateral ceasefire from prison, analysts were skeptical about its impact. Time, however, felt that their pessimism was misplaced. Now al-Jihad, the other major Egyptian militant group, has announced its [...]

Tags: Al-Qaeda, Egypt, Fundamentalism, human rights, Political Thought, Radical Movements, Terrorism