All is not quiet on the Libyan front
ahmed sabirBy Osama Al Sharif Libya has not been much in the news lately but that does not mean that all is good. Five years after western powers intervened militarily in…
Vladimir of Arabia
By Emile Simpson In this masterful account Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman defines strategy as “the art of creating power.” This is a useful lens through which to consider…
How Iran’s pet terrorists won Lebanon
By Benny Avni 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” sang Bob Dylan. And this week, the winds of change in the Middle East kept…
Stop living in denial, Israel is an evil state
ahsanBy Gideon Levy After we've cited nationalism and racism, hatred and contempt for Arab life, the security cult and resistance to the occupation, victimhood and messianism, one more element must…
The coup that failed
By General Mirza Aslam Beg The coup makers attempted to stem the tide of change taking place in Turkey, under the democratic order, but failed, unlike the earlier four attempts…
How to bring down a nation
By Patrick Howlett-Martin More than 30,000 Libyans died during seven months of bombing by an essentially tripartite force France, Great Britain, United States which clearly favored the rebels. “The most…
Pakistan & Syria – Centers of the Great Game
By Sajjad Shaukat Hans J. Morgenthau opines, “The true nature of the policy is concealed by ideological justifications and rationalization. Therefore, the ideology provides a mask behind which the ulterior…
A strong Arab coalition
By Osama Al Sharif The historic visit by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman to Egypt this week marks a major shift in post-Arab Spring geopolitical reality…
Saudi Arabia & Turkey ‘alliance’
By Salman Rafi While Saudi Arabia & Turkey seek Assad's exit from Syria, Ankara wants him to be replaced by Muslim Brotherhood's Syria branch which will be totally unacceptable to…
Iran’s voters sent a message to the hard-liners
By Robin Wright Iranians revel in political humor. Over the weekend, as election results began to show that long-entrenched hard-liners were losing, a new joke circulated in Tehran: Foreign Minister…