by Ghassan Al Imam | Feb 13, 2013 | Opinion
Who said wars of civilisations, cultures, and creeds are impossible? Europe fought a religious war which lasted a hundred years and ended with a cultural fusion between Catholics and Protestants. With its American extension, this melding of civilisations soon produced...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Jul 7, 2012 | Opinion
Sheikh Mohamed Mursi attempted to convince the Arabs and Muslims that the statements he issued to the quasi-official Fars news agency were nothing more than “idle talk”, a move that was perhaps meant to dispel concerns whilst Mursi anticipated the official...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Mar 29, 2012 | Opinion
The Syrian sectarian and family-run regime does not like intellectuals. The Alawite sect’s military apparatus removed the Baath party’s historical intellectuals so they could seize power with the least possible clamor. The sectarian regime threw...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Feb 26, 2012 | Opinion
These days, Egypt is passing through a state of heated controversy, with regards to the flow of political funding from abroad. A fever has erupted in the shape of a serious crisis in Egypt’s relationship with the United States, unprecedented since the clash between...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Jun 3, 2009 | Opinion
Europe sees in Obama another John Kennedy, and the United States sees in him Abraham Lincoln, who reconciled the country with itself after a bitter civil war, and then compares him to Franklin Roosevelt, the author of the “New Deal” who got the country out...
