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Camus and the Algerian Revolution

by Nicholas Blincoe | Jul 10, 2013 | Book Reviews, Lifestyle & Culture

[inset_left]Algerian Chronicles By Albert Camus, Translated by Arthur Goldenhammer Belknap Press, May 2013[/inset_left]Soon after accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus was confronted by a young Algerian at a press conference and challenged to...

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Iraqi Kurds wave the Kurdish flags next to a bonfire to celebrate New Year which marks the beginning of the Noruz spring festival in the northern city of Erbil. (AFP)

Now is Not the Time for an Independent Kurdistan

by Ranj Alaaldin | Apr 8, 2013 | Debate

Kurdish-Arab tensions have increased in recent weeks as a result of political differences between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the federal government in Baghdad. Disputes over oil and gas resources and the 2013 budget have undermined stability in Iraq...

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Masoud Barzani, president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, addresses the opening of a conference on “Recognizing Kurdish Genocide” in Erbil. (R)

Now is the Time for an Independent Kurdistan

by Ibrahim Malazada | Apr 8, 2013 | Debate

The establishment of any new state entity must be analyzed within three fundamental dimensions. These are the internal, regional, and international dimensions. This is particularly true of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, in light of its unique circumstances and...

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File photo of a Kurdish Peshmerga soldier holding a Kurdistan flag from August 6, 2012. (REUTERS/Azad Lashkari/Files)

Facing Division

by Hussein Shobokshi | Mar 16, 2013 | Opinion

In the latest statement by UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi regarding the situation in Syria, he acknowledged that the country will never return to how it was before. Many of those monitoring Syria took this to mean one thing, namely that the country is facing “division”...