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13/03/2008 Article

The Middle East Peace Process: The Case for Jaw-jaw not War-war

When I opened talks with Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Army (IRA), such was the anger of the Ulster Unionists that they declared me ‘contaminated’ and withdrew from talks.

/ Michael Ancram

Tags: Dialogue, Hamas

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Accord (Issue 19), Conciliation Resources, 2008 When I opened talks with Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Army (IRA), such was the anger of the Ulster Unionists that

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04/03/2008 Article

Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam

The regime is ramping up its crackdown on MB members to preempt their ability to secure seats in the upcoming municipal elections and has arrested 400+ MB members.

/ Ibrahim El Houdaiby

Tags: Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

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I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a

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03/03/2008 Article

[PAL-ah-STIN-ians]

Bush is first to note that he regularly mangles language (“Syria Leone”) but there is a lurking suspicion that his fumbling masks a deeper sense of American entitlement.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Middle East

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Bitter Lemons, February 21, 2008 While it may be difficult to remember, George W. Bush was once considered a debater who could match wits with

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25/02/2008 Article

Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood

Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never be marginalized.

/ Ibrahim El Houdaiby

Tags: Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

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Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and

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04/02/2008 Article

Refusing Talk to Facilitate Talk – The Paradox of Islamist Dialogue

The idea that non-Western cultures and language is somehow ephemeral and parochial is an idea deeply rooted in colonialism and colonial thinking.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamists

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The Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUB — Lecture by Alastair Crooke, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs,

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22/01/2008 Article

Nasrallah Forecasts the Prospect of Coming Conflict

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Tags: Bush Administration, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria

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On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is

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17/01/2008 Article

A Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood

In the post-9/11 world, the new (and uniquely Christian) dispensation not only dictates that you tear down fences, but that you butt into his business and bend him to your will.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Israel, Syria

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Bitter Lemons, January 17, 2008 “Good fences make good neighbors,” the American poet Robert Frost once wrote, and he oughta know. The failed farmer turned

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03/01/2008 Article

Dependency Politics

The $7.4 billion of assistance to the Palestinian “government” pledged by donors is another type of European dependency “help” – “a punitive construct devised to constrain Palestinian aspirations.”

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Middle East

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Bitter Lemons, January 3, 2008 “I can’t see what more the international community can do to help,” the exasperated official in Brussels complained as she

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11/11/2007 Article

Mish’al’s speech to Arab Intellectuals

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Tags: Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, PLO

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On November 5, Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khalid Mish’al gave a speech to Arab intellectuals gathered at the Palestine Culture Institute in Damascus. The following

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