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People walk in front of defected posters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie in downtown Cairo August 29, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Opinion: The Rise and Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood

by Amal Mousa | Mar 2, 2014 | Opinion

Just a few weeks ago, the talk about the Muslim Brotherhood focused on the group’s political collapse and its failure to rule. but there was a massive change, suddenly and without evidence, in terms of the general position towards the Brotherhood, with a number of...

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File photo of European Parliament Vice President Gianni Pittella. (Asharq Al-Awsat/James Hanna)

EU Parliament VP: The Union for the Mediterranean has failed

by Nadia Al-Turki | Feb 23, 2014 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—European Parliament Vice President Gianni Pittella said that Europe and the Arab world must look to develop a new “project of cooperation” following the failure of the Union for the Mediterranean. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat in...

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In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2013, a giant Palestinian national flag flutters from the highest point of the city and over looking the neighboring Israeli settlement of Ateret in the background, at the under construction Palestinian city of Rawabi, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. A state-of-the art Palestinian city under construction […]

Opinion: Has the Arab Spring silenced the Palestinian issue?

by Amal Mousa | Feb 23, 2014 | Opinion

I do not believe that the Palestinian cause was on a smooth path to a just resolution acceptable to Palestinians before the Arab Spring; however, neither can we accept what some Palestinian figures proclaimed, that the Arab revolutions were a source of strength and...

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Gates to a house are seen in flood waters in urban landscape in the flooded Somerset village of Moorland February 16, 2014. British ministers will meet representatives of the insurance industry on Tuesday, February 18, who will brief them on their progress in dealing with victims of winter floods across southern England. Some areas of […]

Opinion: How did the Arab Spring get to Britain?

by Bakir Oweida | Feb 21, 2014 | Opinion

How did the Arab Spring reach British homes? Did the Brits not have enough to handle, what with the unprecedented storms that lashed the British coastline and caused extensive flooding, isolating tens of thousands of homes and leaving their inhabitants helpless? The...

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The new Libyan flag is raised during a parade in the eastern city of Benghazi to celebrate the second anniversary of Nato’s first military operation in Libya on March 19, 2013. Source: AFP PHOTO / ADBULLAH DOMA

Opinion: Three Years into the Libyan Revolution

by Ali Ibrahim | Feb 19, 2014 | Opinion

Ten years ago, if someone had said that key Arab countries would become fragmented into regions, it would have come across as the kind of political fantasy or conspiracy theory suitable for discussion at cafes rather than a serious subject worthy of academic study....