Category: Middle East

Breffni O'Rourke As part of a strategy by Israel to improve relations with moderate, secular countries of the Islamic world, President Shimon Peres is visiting Azerbaijan on June 28. In the first...

Scott Lucas   Tehran Bureau has posted the following list. Many of the names have also been confirmed by other sources and our correspondents. In addition, Tehran Bureau profiles journalist...

Scott Lucas   n Enduring America on 12 February, Chris Emery evaluated the announcement of former President Mohammad Khatami that he would stand in June’s election. He wrote, “[It is] an error…to link Khatami’s...

Yigal Schleifer urkish nationalism goes back to the future. One clear day in February, when Ali Babacan visited Yemen, his hosts brought him to a centuries-old, mud-brick building outside Sanaa,...

Scott Lucas hirvin Zeinalzadeh, who writes on Iranian affairs for Enduring America, evaluates the significance of Tehran’s firing of a solid-fuel missile last week: Iran last week successfully test-fired the...

Kamal Nazer Yasin ust when you thought it was impossible for Iranian politics to get any murkier, controversy has erupted over whether President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a gesture during a recent...

David Ignatius   still have the press credentials I gathered nearly three decades ago from the Middle East’s various combatants: one from the left-wing Druse militia in Lebanon, one from...

Neil MacFarquhar   henever I mention the word “fatwa’’ to friends in the West, they usually equate it with a death sentence. This stems from what I expect is the...

Amjad Atallah   there's a reason no one has ever accused Israeli leaders of being shy. When U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Sen. George Mitchell as his envoy on Middle...

Prof. Scott Lucas www.libertas.bham.ac.uk                                                                                                                                                                                            I was heartened to read, in his introduction to this volume, Simon Smith’s invocation of “the interconnections between the regional and the international contexts” of Suez....

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Prof. Scott Lucas www.libertas.bham.ac.uk     It is now a month after President Bush’s dramatic pronouncement of a US “surge” in Iraq, consisting of more than 20,000 additional troops and...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA Oldukça tartışmalı olsa da, şunu dile getirmek isteriz ki bölgeler, haklarında yazılan kitap ve makalelerin sayısına göre gruplandığında Orta Doğu bölgesi kesinlikle ilk sırayı alacaktır. [1] Kısmen, Orta...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA ABD’nin Irak’tan çıkış senaryoları kapsamında en olumlu senaryo olarak nitelendirebileceğimiz bu senaryoda ABD’nin sadece 2005 yılı sonuna kadar Irak’ta kalacağı ön görülmektedir. Ancak, ABD bu kısa...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA 1917 yılı dünya tarihinin en önemli olaylarından birine tanıklık etmişti. İlk bakışta o kadar da önemli görülmeyen bir güç, tarih sahnesine adım atıyordu. I. Dünya Savaşı’ndan...