by Samir Atallah | Dec 28, 2013 | Opinion
I dislike reading history, but reading it is a necessary evil. I dislike it because it reminds me of the present rather than of the past. When you read how many times violence, horror and injustice have been repeated, you might begin to feel that the whole world...
by Abdullah Al-Otaibi | Apr 25, 2013 | Opinion
In an interview conducted after the fall of Saddam, Tariq Aziz—who held several posts at the time of Saddam Hussein—appeared on the television channel Al-Arabiya. Ali Al-Dabbagh, the former minister and spokesperson for the Iraqi government, hosted the interview, in...
by Amir Taheri | Mar 15, 2013 | Opinion
Almost a decade ago a four letter word divided political opinion across the board. The word was “Iraq” whose regime had acted as a rogue state since the late 1960s. The debate that caused the division achieved new intensity when a “coalition of the willing” led by the...
