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Francois Fillon’s Foreign Policy: Cooperation with Moscow, Openness to Damascus

by Michel Abu Najm | Nov 30, 2016 | World

Paris- After he overtook his rival Alain Juppe in the second round of the right wing primaries, the former French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, has become the candidate of the Republicans Party and its allies for the French presidential elections set to take place...

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Supporters of the anti-immigration right-wing movement Pegida. Reuters

History and Popular Speech

by Fadel al-Sultani | Aug 8, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

How did popular speech breach the British society and isolate it from its European entourage? We used to think that the hypocrite, miserable, and misleading speech only succeeds in our communities that suffer from social and cultural relapse and need a lot of...

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An April 10, 2003 photo shows US Marines walking past a dismounted statue of Saddam Hussein on Baghdad’s Fardous Square. (AFP PHOTO)

Iraq: How the Republic of Fear was Brought Down

by Amir Taheri | Mar 17, 2013 | Features

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years, already. Yes, the people of Iraq have completed their first decade without a despot who had invaded every aspect of their life with a mixture of brutality and cynicism. And, yet, many Iraqis have not yet succeeded in filing away...