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A general view of the 142nd Arab League foreign ministers’ meeting at the League’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on September 7, 2014. (EPA/Khaled Elfiqi)


Opinion: ISIS and Arab Unity

Opinion: ISIS and Arab Unity

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claims to have achieved in a few months what other projects seeking Arab unity have failed to do since Mustafa Kamal Atatürk abolished the Ottoman Islamic caliphate in 1924. In a blink of an eye, ISIS has called on 1.5...
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Protesters cheer with Egyptian flags and a banner of army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, seen between former presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser (R) and Anwar Sadat, as they gather for a mass protest to support the army in front of the presidential palace in Cairo July 26, 2013. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)


Opinion: From Nasser to Sisi

Opinion: From Nasser to Sisi

The state in Egypt is all-encompassing and powerful, and so it is no surprise that the legitimacy of the state has prevailed over that of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood may have been able to hijack the presidency, but its president Mohamed Mursi did not know...
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Demonstrators raise their fists during a demonstration on May 1, 2013. A strike stopped ferry services to the Greek islands and disrupted public transport in the capital Athens ahead of May Day protests Wednesday against Greece’s prolonged economic austerity policies. (AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINI)


Opinion: The end of politics

Opinion: The end of politics

A love-sick widower wrote the following epitaph on his late wife’s tombstone: “The light of my life has been put out.” Having spent years in aching loneliness, the man fell in love with another woman, who provoked his desire for marriage. He then...
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A Palestinian woman looks on as she stands at a United Nations-run school sheltering Palestinians displaced by an Israeli ground offensive, that witnesses said was hit by Israeli shelling, in Jebalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem


Opinion: The Arabs, a people or geography?

Opinion: The Arabs, a people or geography?

Hezbollah’s government has invented the principle of “non-interference,” but it failed to apply this on the ground. Today, the party is involved in a “do or die” battle in Syria, a neighbor to its state within a state, which views Lebanon as an outlying...
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A Syrian supporting the regime of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad holds a placard with his picture and the national flag as he participates in a protest outside the US Embassy in central London, on Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)


Opinion: Sectarianism and Syria

Opinion: Sectarianism and Syria

What does the political situation in Syria look like on the ground after the recent Israeli airstrikes and the bomb attacks on the Turkish–Syrian border? Moscow’s peace efforts are once again being overwhelmed by the increasing signs of war. The Syrian regime,...