As US President Barack Obama sends mixed signals of a re-launch of the stalled Middle East peace process, Shahira Samy* asks Karma Nabulsi and Avi Shlaim for their views on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and probes life-long trajectories of (...)
Shahira Samy* ponders the significance for the Arab-Israeli conflict of Australia's apology to its aboriginal community
Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an apology to his country's Aborigines in the name of the (...)
Shahira Samy* reviews what Mr President said and did not say
"One of the major goals of my life, while in political office and since I was retired from the White House by the 1980 election, has been to help ensure a lasting peace for Israelis and (...)
Puzzling through the knot of the relationship between Arab intellectuals and Western thought
On a rare sunny September day in the south west of England, a visit to the university bookstore left Rasheed El-Enany's befuddled why his latest book was (...)
Was the AUT really ready for an academic boycott of two Israeli universities? From Exeter, Shahira Samy explains why the decision was revoked
In June of last year, the University of Exeter in the UK hosted an international workshop themed on the (...)