Sat 18 January 2020: The Arab Spring is not a singular event with a beginning and an end. Another year, another decade, another round of bad news in the Middle East. Last week’s headlines featured: death in Egyptian prisons, clashes in Sudan, worsening humanitarian crises in Yemen and Syria, illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Palestine, political paralysis in Tunisia, failure of […]
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Thu 16 January 2020: The clash between the ‘resistance’ and ‘revolutionary’ movements will define the Middle East in the future. The events surrounding the US assassination of Iranian Quds Force leader Major General Qassem Soleimani brought to the surface the two main ideological forces that now battle each other across the Middle East – the […]
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Tue 14 January 2020: Messiah is not egregiously Islamophobic like ‘Homeland’ but if you dig deeper, the Orientalism starts to show. The new Netflix series ‘Messiah‘ is set on an objectively exciting premise. The problem? It ends up being little more than a reinforcement of naive American foreign policy (and for a Middle Easterner or Muslim, […]
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Thu 09 January 2019: The U.S. drone strike that targeted and killed top Iranian commander, Maj-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, generated an extraordinary amount of controversy in U.S. policy circles, even by the standards of Middle East issues. While some admire President Donald Trump’s boldness in targeting Soleimani, many others were quick to decry it as a […]
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Wed 08 January 2019: Idlib today bears the brunt of the Assad regime’s Soleimani-inspired scorched earth strategy which will blight Syria for a long time to come. It’s darkly ironic that at the time when the US government assassinated Major-General Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it emerged that […]
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And Trump’s reckless decision to assassinate him will not result in ‘World War III’. Tue 07 January 2019: Immediately after news broke of the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, some left-wing circles in the West proclaimed with great confidence – yet again – that World War III was […]
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Mon 06 January 2020: Both Washington and Tehran have embarked on reckless foreign policies in Iraq, which deny Baghdad sovereignty and have led to constant instability. While the world is enraptured by the potential fallout of the US drone strike that killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qassem Soleimani, many are forgetting the plight of […]
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Sun 05 January 2020: The most plausible reason why President Trump ordered the assassination of the Iranian general commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, is to shift attention away from the ongoing impeachment process in the US media. Soleimani and the commander of the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia in Iraq, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, were killed by a […]
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Sat 04 January 2020: According to Amit Shah, the national President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), “Infiltrators [Muslim immigrants] are like termites in the soil of Bengal. The BJP Government will pick up the infiltrators one by one and throw them into the Bay of Bengal.” Such terminology may not surprise those living in […]
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Sun 29 December 2019: The mini Islamic summit called for by Mahathir Mohamad, convened in Kuala Lumpur the previous week and brought up questions that are critical for the Muslim world. The question about how Muslims have fallen so behind in today’s world despite all their options, wealth, cultural and geographical advantages, was the most […]
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