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Articles of the author Hamid Alkifaey
Arab Americans Seek A Palestinian State Because It's 'In The US Interests'
For the last half century, Arab politicians and intellectuals have often talked about the need to create an Arab lobby in the United States to advocate for Arab issues. Often, they attributed the weakness of the Arab diplomatic position to the (...)

13 - 11 - 2013
Tunisia and Egypt possess fundamentals for democracy
It was not a coincident that that Tunisia and Egypt lead the Arab world in democratic transformation or the demand for it, at least. There are cultural and historical bases for this transformation which we can find in the recent history of those two (...)

24 - 06 - 2011
Iraqi politicians curse sectarian power-sharing officially but they stick to it in practice
Everyone in Iraq curses the sectarian/political power-sharing quota system, slugs away at it day and night, and attributes corruption and deterioration in security and services and all other problems to it. Till now, not a single politician has come (...)

30 - 05 - 2011
US forces are required in Iraq for political, not, military reasons
Renewing for American forces to stay longer in Iraq is rather political, not security issue. Iraqi security forces have almost reached a million persons, between police, army, security personnel and guards, and they must be able to protect the (...)

11 - 05 - 2011
No return to the past, the Arab World has changed forever
The current changes taking place in the Arab world, which began in Tunisia at the end of last year, are not temporary or incidental as some seem to believe. They are structural and transformational and therefore, permanent. They won't go away as (...)

19 - 04 - 2011
Has the Arab League become a league of peoples rather than a league of regimes?
The Arab League's recent decision to request the intervention of the UN Security Council to protect the Libyan people from their own government is an important decision that constitutes an historical precedent and a qualitative transformation in (...)

30 - 03 - 2011
Maliki and the forty ministers!
Whoever watches meetings of the Maliki government will experience a wave of depression and disappointment, and perhaps other, less passive emotions too. The mere fact that there are four chairmen, with Maliki in the middle, sitting at the head of a (...)

12 - 03 - 2011
Youth rebellion won't stop and reform is the key for stability
The current sweeping wind of change that has toppled two ‘established' Arab regimes in less than a month, and it's about to topple a third, won't calm down before it achieves its aims. Even those countries which hold elections and have a degree of (...)

08 - 03 - 2011
Iraqi Mistakes that Egyptians and Tunisians Must Avoid
One can only describe the recent Egyptian revolution as great. No other word is more appropriate. This is the first time in recent Arab history that a popular revolution, led by ordinary people, has succeeded in toppling a long-established political (...)

21 - 02 - 2011
The Christians are not holidaymakers in Iraq destined to go home
We often hear ‘Islamic' appeals for the Iraqi Christians to ‘stay' in Iraq and not leave. Such calls, whether in good faith or bad, treat Christians as though they were guests whose stay was long overdue and they were about to depart. These calls (...)

27 - 01 - 2011
Is Maliki's New Government a True ‘National Partnership' or a Magical Arrangement to Avoid Conflict?
One of the prominent features of Noori Almaliki's new government is that it is based on reassuring participating political forces that what happened in the past, such as marginalization, crackdown on, and elimination of, political opponents, won't (...)

11 - 01 - 2011
Religious fanaticism targets democracy and civil life in Iraq
Fanatics are always slaves to an idea that has captured their imagination and have taken control of their thinking and feeling. They cannot depart from it, no matter how far life circumstances have taken them away from it, and even if their duties (...)

11 - 12 - 2010
Will the second Maliki government be a copy of the first?
Iraq is heading for a new coalition government which may be somewhat different to its predecessor due to the change in the balance of power in the country following the last elections. Mr Noori Almaliki, the Prime Minister designate, who has also (...)

02 - 12 - 2010
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