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While the preparations for next year’s UN conference on a Middle East Nuclear & WMD Free Zone are underway, commentators are already expressing pessimism as to the possibility of such...

Organised by the Arab League and attended by around 70 countries, the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis on 24 February 2012 was probably one of the last chances for...

  Comments (1) Yemen 'after' Saleh: Let the Crises Continue? After months of uncertainty about Ali Abdullah Saleh’s sincerity to step down from his post as Yemen’s president, he was...

After months of uncertainty about Ali Abdullah Saleh’s sincerity to step down from his post as Yemen’s president, he was confirmed on 22 January 2012 to have left the country...

Cairo has recently concurred with the request of Tel Aviv to increase the military deployment in this zone to 1,000 troops, seeking to restore security in the area, which is...

Written by IBRAHIM AL-AMIN It is worth going back over the Arab press archive of the past six months. Not to compare what everyone has been saying. But to illustrate...

Written by PROF. GILBERT ACHCAR I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital Stockholm. A number...

Written by TRITA PARSI The determination to ramp up sanctions and rhetoric on Iran means Europe and the US are 'inching towards war' Only sixteen months after the last United...

Written by NICOLA NASSER Friday, 04 November 2011 05:30 Surrounded by the Turkish veteran member of NATO in the north, the Israeli NATO partner and the navy fleets of the...

Written by DR. IMAD EL-ANIS Monday, 17 October 2011 06:52 Introduction Studies of the international relations of the Middle East have been dominated by discussions of inter-state relations and conflicts.[1]...

BY IBRAHIM NATIL** | 07.09.2011 The Birth of Hamas By the beginning of the 1980s, the senior leadership of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood (Brotherhood) in the Gaza Strip was facing...

A Case Study of the Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya Arab Satellite Television Channels BY SAMAH HAMDAN NAJI HANAYSHA** | 07.09.2011 Introduction Peace Journalism Scholars often interpret the concept of peace journalism...

By Mr FILIPPO GRANDI** | 08.06.2011 Colleagues of Coventry University and the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Vice-Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am grateful for this opportunity to exchange...

By BARRY RUBIN | 16.05.2011   Save this note. Last year I predicted that Egypt's instability might well be the big story of 2011. Why wait until December? The central...

By Tamer Kasikci | 20.03.2011 Hasan Al-Banna Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood During the January Revolution in Egypt many Middle Eastern experts had two major questions in their mind. The first...