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The president’s 2009 speech in Cairo, broadcast in a cafe in Baghdad. Credit Moises Saman for The New York Ti

Obama Hoped to Transform the World. It Transformed Him.

by ADAM SHATZ | Jan 16, 2017 | Opinion

When Barack Obama entered office, the hopes that he raised in his own country were exceeded only by the hopes he raised abroad. Mr. Obama tapped into those hopes with his inspirational rhetoric about a “transformational” presidency, and his promises were scarcely less...

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Opinion: Obama – the Beginning and the End

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Dec 16, 2016 | Opinion

Next month, the USA and the whole world will turn the page of Barack Obama’s presidency; bidding farewell to eight years whose early days were full of promise, but for tens of millions ended with sadness and disasters. Like lottery tickets, electoral democracy is...

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Opinion: Will Trump’s First Political Lesson be Putin?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Nov 16, 2016 | Opinion

Days after the former US President George W Bush junior was elected, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin sought to arrange a meeting with the then President-elect but Bush’s team at the time delayed the meeting for months. The meeting between Bush and Putin took place...

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Opinion: Deceptive Leaders

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...

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Opinion: Iraq – Turmoil Between Two Empires

by Amir Taheri | May 6, 2016 | Opinion

If the current turmoil in the Iraqi capital Baghdad contains any message, it is that the majority of Iraqis are quite fed up with the status quo. Their grievance isn’t limited to any one aspect of the nation’s life, being the difficulties of day-to-day survival or the...