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A man takes photos of a party flag of Communist Party of China made with flowers, which promotes the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Shanghai, China September 30, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song

China’s Communist Party Makes Final Preparations for Major Congress

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 12, 2017 | World

Beijing- China’s Communist Party opened a meeting on Wednesday to make final preparations for the 19th National Congress that begins on Oct 18, state media said. During the congress, President Xi Jinping is expected to be re-elected as the party’s leader. The...

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Inter-Arab Ties Remain Bound to Dreamy Intellect

by Abdel Rahman Shalgam | Jul 15, 2017 | Opinion

Two speeches of late Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba have left a mark in the Arab world. The first was in Jericho, West Bank, in 1965, when he called on Arabs to implement United Nations Resolution 181 issued on Nov. 27 1947. The second speech was delivered at le...

Freedom, Then and Now

by Malik Al-Abdeh | Jul 6, 2013 | The Majalla Magazine

“Freedom for an Oxford don . . . is a very different thing from freedom for an Egyptian peasant,” said that most eminent of Oxford dons, Isaiah Berlin. Is he right? Does the Egyptian peasant demand a different sort of freedom than that of an English professor? At no...

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TOPSHOTSDemonstrators help one another as Turkish riot policemen use tear gas to disperse clashes on May 31, 2013 during a protest against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park, in Taksim Square in Istanbul. (AFP Photo)

Opinion: “Turkish Spring” is a false analogy

by Aylin Kocaman | Jun 5, 2013 | Opinion

There have been no great uprisings in the major cities of my country, Turkey, since the 1970s. It has wrestled with the scourge of terror for 30 years; we have always lived side by side with terror. Suicide bombings, banks being blown up and explosions on buses all...

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Iraqi security force members and civilians gather at the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013 (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)

Opinion: Franchising terrorism

by Hussein Shobokshi | Jun 3, 2013 | Opinion

Two days ago, the Nigerian authorities announced the arrest of a terrorist cell affiliated with the militias of the Lebanese Hezbollah party. According to the authorities, the cell was prepared to carry out a series of bombings there. It is not odd anymore that we see...