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Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Younis Jahjouh during his funeral at Qalandiya Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 26, 2013. Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians, including Jahjouh, and wounded about a dozen in an early morning raid on Monday to arrest a suspected militant in a refugee camp near Jerusalem, Palestinian medical sources told Reuters. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman)

Opinion: A Salute to Palestinian Women

by Bakir Oweida | Apr 11, 2014 | Opinion

I listened to part of a discussion between a radio presenter and his audience on the BBC last Sunday night. It dealt with the suggestion by a senior army officer that women in the armed serves should be allowed to serve in front-line units and be given close combat...

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Two men on a motorcycle drive through a flooded street in SalÈ near the Moroccan capital Rabat, April 2, 2014. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA

Opinion: The Wars and Disasters of 2050

by Bakir Oweida | Apr 7, 2014 | Opinion

The year 2050 may seem very far away, but it will come sooner than we expect. Tomorrow will be on us sooner than we might think—and what a tomorrow it will be. It must be fate that the week of the release of new Hollywood blockbuster Noah coincided with an...

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REFILE – CORRECTING BYLINE Palestinian boys climb a fence to watch a rally marking the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Opinion: Let Gaza Breathe

by Bakir Oweida | Mar 22, 2014 | Opinion

There are cities, states and whole regions that are fated to never stay out of the news for too long—and I don’t mean local, everyday news, but important, sometimes earth-shattering news. These are the places with conflicts that have no hope of being resolved anytime...

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Syrians cross with their belongings from the rebel controlled side of the Bustan al-Qasr checkpoint in the district of Aleppo on February 3, 2014, to the government controlled side. Al-Qaeda has disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), whose members have been locked in deadly clashes with Syrian rebels, according to a […]

Opinion: The ISIS Tumor

by Bakir Oweida | Mar 7, 2014 | Opinion

The consequences of former US President George W. Bush’s war on terror may be responsible somehow, albeit not directly, for the emergence of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It may be an exaggeration to say that the situation is out of control and...

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A Syrian refugee waves a revolutionary flag during a protest against any concessions his country’s opposition may make to the Syrian government at the Geneva peace talks at Zaatari camp in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Opinion: Geneva III is also doomed

by Bakir Oweida | Mar 1, 2014 | Opinion

If a third Syrian–Syrian meeting is to be held in Geneva—whether over the next few months months or years from now—the likelihood is that it would end like its predecessors did in June 2012 and January and February 2014. I’m sorry, but there is no escaping this...