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Refugees fleeing from Mosul head to the self-ruled northern Kurdish region in Erbil, Iraq, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, on Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo)

Opinion: Arabs and the Culture of Dialogue

by Bakir Oweida | Jun 29, 2014 | Opinion

Arab countries have been going through a downward spiral on a number of levels over the past few years. In fact, the situation in the Arab world is going from bad to worse. Take the recent UN report on the numbers and conditions of refugees around the world released...

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Fouad Ajami, His Books, and the Arab Political Condition

by Afshin Molavi | Jun 24, 2014 | Profiles

“Khalil Hawi, a poet of renown and professor at the American University of Beirut, educated at that university and at Cambridge, killed himself in the evening of June 6, 1982, at the age of sixty-two, on the balcony of his home in West Beirut.” Thus began one of the...

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Remembering Fouad Ajami

by Bernard Haykel | Jun 24, 2014 | Opinion

I first became aware of Professor Fouad Ajami as a graduate student when I read his book The Arab Predicament, which left a deep impression. It is masterful in describing the intellectual, political and cultural torments of the Arab world in the wake of the defeat in...

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Middle East expert Fouad Ajami passes away

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 24, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese-born Middle East scholar and commentator Fouad Ajami passed away on Sunday, aged 68, after losing a protracted battle with cancer. Ajami was one of the most prominent and influential Middle East scholars in the world, helping rally...