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Articles of the author Nyier Abdou
On Saturday, young Yasser was born
The turbulent outpouring of grief at Yasser Arafat's burial on Friday was cathartic for traumatised Palestinians, writes Nyier Abdou in Ramallah During the four-decade-long career that took him from guerrilla leader, to political agitator, to (...)

18 - 11 - 2004
No way out
Confusion reigned as the US formally named Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war, but is the furore a red herring? asks Nyier Abdou When the Pentagon classified Saddam Hussein an enemy prisoner of war (POW) earlier this month, speculation rose to a fever (...)

29 - 01 - 2004
Welcome to America
Everyone's a suspect in the brave new world of US travel. Nyier Abdou looks at the US's controversial new screening programmes "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming (...)

15 - 01 - 2004
A piece of the pie
It could be the trial of the century, but who gets to do it, and where? Nyier Abdou looks at the controversy over trying Saddam Hussein Hours after the news broke that Saddam Hussein had been captured by US forces on Sunday speculation was rampant (...)

18 - 12 - 2003
When help hurts
Plagued by doubts about security, humanitarian organisations are leaving Iraq in droves. Nyier Abdou looks at what happens when neutrality is not enough The aftershocks of the 27 October bombing of the headquarters of the International Committee of (...)

13 - 11 - 2003
Lost horizon
Emerging security breaches at the US's top security facility in Guantanamo Bay are a new headache for the Pentagon and raise the spectre of a new backlash against Muslim and Arab-Americans, writes Nyier Abdou Muslims and Arab-Americans in the US (...)

16 - 10 - 2003
Wanted: dead or alive
The arrest of two of Saddam Hussein's closest and most ruthless aides closes a chapter in the book of repression for Iraq's Kurdish population, writes Nyier Abdou To Abdul-Wahab Sadiq Mohamed, it smelled like garlic. It was late afternoon, and the (...)

28 - 08 - 2003
Picking up the pieces
The bombing of the J W Marriot in Jakarta last week was a painful reminder that Southeast Asia is living in a post-Bali world of security jitters, writes Nyier Abdou Last Thursday, Amrozi Bin Nurhasyim -- the 41-year-old mechanic convicted of (...)

14 - 08 - 2003
What's good for the goose...
Trial by nationality? Nyier Abdou looks at accusations that the US is dispensing justice to Al-Qa'eda suspects by fiat Concessions won by British and Australian negotiators last week regarding their nationals detained as Al-Qa'eda suspects have (...)

31 - 07 - 2003
View from above
From a remote camp in the north of Iraqi Kurdistan, prominent KADEK leader Osman Öcalan talks to Nyier Abdou about Kurdish resistance, the post-war era and the end of the nationalist fight Late afternoon light is caressing the jagged mountain (...)

10 - 07 - 2003
The killing fields
Survivors of the 1991 Intifada are finally able to search for their dead, but as volunteers continue to uncover mass graves in southern Iraq, evidence that could be used in future tribunals is slipping away, reports Nyier Abdou in Hilla Karim Aziz (...)

05 - 06 - 2003
All or nothing
Prominent Iraqi political groups may once again take on the appellation "opposition", reports Nyier Abdou in Baghdad The passing last week of a UN Security Council resolution formalising the US-UK occupation of Iraq has left ripples of indignation (...)

29 - 05 - 2003
In the eye of the storm
Nyier Abdou talks to Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Saleh about the end of an era -- and the storms kept at bay Barham Saleh is pleased with Cairo. The weather is good, the accommodation agreeable, the city cleaner than he remembers it from his last (...)

08 - 05 - 2003
In the shadows
Recently home to an extensive crisis of internal displacement, the towns of southeastern Turkey are full of Kurdish families stuck in limbo. With the uncertainty of war at their doorstep, people are poised for another blow, writes Nyier Abdou in (...)

10 - 04 - 2003
Hand on the trigger
With troops amassed on the Iraqi border, the smallest spark could rekindle Turkey's slow-burning Kurdish question, reports Nyier Abdou in Silopi Driving through Istanbul's Taksim district, Mehmet, an off-duty intelligence policeman, is heatedly (...)

03 - 04 - 2003
Out on a limb
With the countdown to war under way, British Prime Minister Tony Blair may be staking his career on a dubious gamble, reports Nyier Abdou in London Whether it's veteran Leftist and activist Tareq Ali bellowing "Bring down Blair!" at the Hyde Park (...)

27 - 02 - 2003
Stop the war
On 15 February, the world saw mass demonstrations opposing war in Iraq, with people protesting in some 60 countries and 300 cities across the globe. People from all walks of life took to the streets, from Sydney to Berlin, from Rome to New York, to (...)

20 - 02 - 2003
Under wraps
A flurry of recent reports on the impact of a war in Iraq are building the case for an impending humanitarian disaster, writes Nyier Abdou By any account, the build-up to a potential war in Iraq is one of the longest, and certainly the most publicly (...)

13 - 02 - 2003
Democracy is...
Nyier Abdou talks to Iraq Institute for Democracy head Hussain Sinjari about change from within, the message of the anti-war movement and life after Saddam Hussain Sinjari, the driving force and jovial face of the Erbil-based Iraq Institute for (...)

06 - 02 - 2003
Peace, at a price
A new deal struck between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement means different things to different people, writes Nyier Abdou As freedom fighters, they are known as the Free Aceh Movement, or by their Indonesian acronym, GAM. As a (...)

23 - 01 - 2003
Dance of defiance
Not if, but when. Not why, but how. Nyier Abdou finds Washington and Baghdad still locked in the same decade-old rhetoric Pundits, journalists, academics and diplomats alike are still stirring the debate on whether the US and Britain will go to war (...)

16 - 01 - 2003
Facing down the hounds
A decision to ban MK Azmi Bishara and his Balad Party from contesting elections sets a shocking precedent. Nyier Abdou talks to the standard-bearer of Arab-Israeli rights about what it means to be first in everything Azmi Bishara is good at being (...)

09 - 01 - 2003
The new America
America is in a class of its own, but it's no enviable position, writes Nyier Abdou More than one year on, to argue that 11 September "changed the world" is not only mundane, it's wrong. When America came under attack, the reverberations were felt (...)

26 - 12 - 2002
Humpty dumpty
Can all the king's horses and all the king's men put Afghanistan back together again? Nyier Abdou takes the pulse of Afghanistan's recovery efforts The attention focused on Afghanistan during the US-led military campaign that ousted the Taliban (...)

26 - 12 - 2002
The policy of punishment
ROGUE CHIEFS: They believed in the system -- and it failed them. On the fringes of last week's conference, Nyier Abdou catches up with former UN humanitarian co-ordinators for Iraq Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday to talk about warmongering, (...)

26 - 12 - 2002
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