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Opinion: United Kurdistan and a Partitioned Middle East

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 24, 2016 | Opinion

The sudden move by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in the city of Al-Hassakah, north eastern Syria, was really interesting both in terms of the target chosen and the timing. The regime has launched air raids against Kurdish militias inside the city and its environs while...

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Opinion: Turkey Re-evaluates its Vital Interests

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 19, 2016 | Opinion

The other day it was announced that the US vice president Joe Biden would soon be visiting Turkey. The visit will follow frantic Turkish activities in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt. Several issues, I presume, deserve to be scheduled for discussion between...

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Opinion: Aleppo and Mosul – A Tale of Two Cities

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 10, 2016 | Opinion

In 1859, the celebrated British author Charles Dickens wrote ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, a famous novel whose events took place in Paris and London during and in the aftermath of the French revolution, and dealt with the plight of the French peasantry under the old...

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Opinion: The Problems Facing America’s Republicans and Britain’s Labour

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 2, 2016 | Opinion

America had an exceptional few days last week as the Republican Party officially adopted the billionaire right-wing firebrand Donald Trump as its presidential candidate for next November’s race to the White House. In the meantime, across the Atlantic, where the vote...

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Opinion: About Erdogan and Turkey’s Coup Attempt

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jul 24, 2016 | Opinion

Let me start by saying that even those who dislike Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and are not fans of his style of government, like me, did not support the coup attempt against a democratically elected government. Erdogan, in fact, has never enjoyed a ‘carte blanche’...