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Articles of the author Rami G Khouri
The Arab spring and Israel-Palestine
The upheavals throughout parts of the Arab world caused by millions of people demonstrating for their citizenship rights can only impact positively on the Palestinian-Israeli and wider Arab-Israel conflicts, though short-term tensions are likely to (...)

08 - 05 - 2011
Haleh Esfandiari, or the evil of an often impressive Iran
Iran is at once impressive yet offensive. I want to embrace it, but it keeps pushing me away through its own misdeeds. Iran is widely demonized in the United States, much of Europe, and throughout Arab official circles and pockets of Arab society; (...)

24 - 07 - 2007
Bush's speech needs some clearing up
It is hard to know if we should be pleased or terrified that US President George W. Bush Monday signaled renewed involvement by the United States in Arab-Israeli peace-making. It is certainly vital to have direct American engagement in order to move (...)

18 - 07 - 2007
Hezbollah between awe and hostility
Hezbollah, one of the most important groups on the Lebanese and Middle Eastern political scene these days, is also one of the most enigmatic. This week, the first anniversary of the Hezbollah-Israel war of July-August 2006, much attention in Lebanon (...)

14 - 07 - 2007
A wonder that should put modern Arabs to shame
The designation last week of the modern-day Seven Wonders of the World via a global poll of 100 million people offered a nice break from the usual menu of depressing conflict around the world. We in the Arab world are especially pleased that one (...)

12 - 07 - 2007
Europe must extract itself from its Middle East mess
On my trip through Europe that has included discussions with a wide range of officials and specialists in Norway, Germany, France and Italy, almost every conversation turns to the question of what role Europe should play in the Middle East today. (...)

05 - 07 - 2007
When in doubt, the world dislikes America
A new Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Survey published this week reveals that public attitudes towards the United States around the world continue to deteriorate, as they have for half a decade now, with particularly strong negative views about (...)

29 - 06 - 2007
A peace envoy whom we can do without
I was in Europe earlier this week speaking with current and former officials, experts and diplomats about the situation in the Middle East, when the news broke of the appointment of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as special envoy of the (...)

28 - 06 - 2007
Palestine between delusion and destruction
It's hard to know who appears more ludicrous and despicable, the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas leaderships allowing their gunmen to fight it out on the streets of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, or an American administration saying it supports the (...)

18 - 06 - 2007
A Gulf on fire, if you haven't noticed
The Gulf states often attract attention for their fast pace of physical development, as striking new commercial and government complexes appear in the skylines of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, Manama and elsewhere. Yet something more intriguing (...)

12 - 06 - 2007
What happens now after Resolution 1757?
UN Security Council Resolution 1757, passed on Wednesday to establish a mixed Lebanese-international court to try suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in February 2005, has sparked intense and (...)

05 - 06 - 2007
Regional conflicts join up in Lebanon
In recent years I and others have been warning that the growing number of conflicts in the Middle East is pushing the region toward new forms of radicalism and trouble. The clashes between the Lebanese Army and the Fatah Al-Islam extremist militants (...)

23 - 05 - 2007
How business and politics can partner for peace
I write this from Sweimeh, on the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Middle Eastern gathering of business, government, civil society and media leaders. Visible across the Dead Sea to the west is the Israeli-occupied (...)

20 - 05 - 2007
Jordan and the G-11: Match their bet, call their bluff
For a small country that usually does not make much news, Jordan is making a claim on the world's attention this week with a series of fascinating consecutive events. King Abdullah II of Jordan has chosen the path of dynamic activism and big (...)

16 - 05 - 2007
What is Caesar's and what isn't in the Arab world
It is hard to get away from a central fact of Middle Eastern politics and statehood: the significant role played by the military and security forces in the business of government and the exercise of public authority. This is a largely unaddressed (...)

14 - 05 - 2007
Turkey beyond Islamism versus secularism
The tempestuous current developments in Turkey are historic in their implications for the country and the Middle East. However, they are about much more than a tug-of-war between Islamism and secularism. The constitutional stand-off concerning the (...)

10 - 05 - 2007
Why not adopt Norwegian pragmatism?
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's "hello to the Iranian foreign minister and her brief "businesslike meeting with the Syrian foreign minister Thursday at the international conference on Iraq in Egypt have generated considerable international (...)

07 - 05 - 2007
The Winograd report only provokes Arab disdain
A combination of vindication, disdain, and renewed concerns about Israeli militarism are the dominant reactions in the Arab world to the preliminary report of the Winograd Commission released Monday in Israel. The commission harshly rebuked three (...)

02 - 05 - 2007
Constructive currents flow below Middle Eastern civil society
We are often so obsessed with the problems and conflicts that define the relationship between the Middle East and the West today that we tend to lose sight of the constructive currents that flow beneath the surface. An unusual week of consecutive (...)

29 - 04 - 2007
The US is neither feared nor respected anymore
I'm not sure if it's mere serendipity or anything more challenging, but every time I have come to Jordan recently my trip has coincided with the visit of a senior American official. Three weeks ago I was in Amman at the same time as US Secretary of (...)

25 - 04 - 2007
On Islam and modernism: a talk with Sadiq Al-Mahdi
One of the prevalent trends that defines so much of what is both right and wrong about the Arab world today is the convergence between religion, nationalism, and politics. The three are used to practice unspeakably cruel violence against foes and (...)

24 - 04 - 2007
Proving the intellectual skinheads wrong
The debate over democracy in Arab and Islamic countries continues to twist and turn, responding variously to indigenous forces and to erratic perceptions from the West, especially the United States. New evidence of the native Arab commitment to (...)

20 - 04 - 2007
Recalling a thinker of Islam and modernity
Three years ago this week, the late Egyptian thinker, economist, public servant and activist Said Naggar passed away after a long and productive life. I remember Naggar from a time I visited with him in Cairo, and through my recollection of (...)

17 - 04 - 2007
Where columnist David Brooks went wrong
David Brooks' column in the Sunday issue of The New York Times deserves a few thoughts from a colleague who has generally admired his work, but finds him now reflecting the troubling intellectual and ideological gap between the United States and the (...)

12 - 04 - 2007
When Arab security chiefs conduct foreign policy
Two intriguing meetings took place this past week in the Arab world. In Egypt, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the intelligence services directors of four Arab states - Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Just (...)

31 - 03 - 2007
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