by Kifah Ziboun | May 17, 2017 | Middle East
Ramallah- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that ending Israeli occupation is a key gateway to implementing the Arab peace initiative. “Ending the occupation of our country will pave the way towards implementing the Arab peace Initiative, and would aid...
by Samir Atallah | Aug 27, 2016 | Opinion
In the west disgrace afflicts those who deceive their own people, not those who are defeated. The Chilcot report on the Iraq war does not condemn Tony Blair because he lost the war, but rather because he, along with George W. Bush, was involved in one of the worst...
by Ali Ibrahim | Feb 23, 2016 | Opinion
A few weeks ago, the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi frankly spoke about the scale of problems and challenges that he faces on television. He said that his priority is to prevent the collapse of the state and remarked that “what was present in 2011 was the...
by Ahmed Khadry | Jul 8, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
On February 11, 2011, moments after the resignation of Hosni Mubarak was announced, a friend and I climbed on top of a tank stationed to the east of Tahrir Square. We were euphoric after hearing the news we thought impossible during those tumultuous eighteen days that...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 6, 2013 | Opinion
In the week of the 46th anniversary of the Six-Day War of 1967, it is clear now that said war was far worse than we had thought. The worst thing is that we failed to draw lessons from this, leading to a series of successive tragic “endings” instead of igniting the...
