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March 14 Alliance: We Refuse to Turn Lebanon into a Victim of Iran’s Domination

by Thair Abbas | Feb 22, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The Lebanese government will today meet to discuss the implications of the latest Gulf stance following Saudi Arabia’s announcement that it has stopped its military and security aid to Lebanon and that it will review relations with Lebanon as a result of the Lebanese...

Opinion: Egypt and the US Dispute

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 19, 2013 | Opinion

No one would have thought that relations between Egypt and “Mother America” would strain. On the contrary, relations with Washington were expected to deteriorate when the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power, not after their ouster. Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy...

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Palestinians hold placards bearing anti- US and USAID slogans during a protest against US policies in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 10, 2011. Source: ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images

Strings Attached

by Stephen Glain | Feb 21, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

In spring 2002, with the Second Intifada entering its second year, I was in Damascus drinking tea with a friend in his shop near the Umayyad Mosque. We were watching a televised broadcast of Israel’s assault on the West Bank, which it was reoccupying. When I asked my...