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40 members of the parliament agreed on the petition


Freedom, Then and Now

“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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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)


Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Justified

Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Justified

The debate over the 2003 international intervention in Iraq is ongoing, and many people continue to express the view that the toppling of the Ba’athist regime by the US and its allies was an example of foreign occupation. Some of those espousing this view rely...
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Middle East historian Bernard Lewis. (AAA)


A Century of Engagement and Reflection

A Century of Engagement and Reflection

Philadelphia, Asharq Al-Awsat—Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of many critically acclaimed and bestselling books, including two number one New York Times bestsellers: What Went...
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In this Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, Demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP)


Stable Chaos

Stable Chaos

The most fitting description of what is happening in the countries of the Arab Spring is that they are now experiencing a state of ‘stable chaos’, whereby chaos is prevalent and influences all manners of conduct, despite the variations in the currents and trends of...