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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...