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Articles of the author Hazem Saghieh
Two Bombings, Two Embassies, And One City
Whenever a terrorist attack like the ones that struck Beirut's southern suburb and the Iranian embassy there, occurs, a person may become puzzled as to how to express sorrow and solidarity with the victims, while not falling into emotional (...)

21 - 11 - 2013
Imperialism and Satan are French, Not American
With Francois Hollande's visit to Israel, which did not try to tone down its warm welcome of the French president, and with the increasingly clear French tendency to be firm with Iran on the nuclear issue and desire to provide stronger ground (...)

19 - 11 - 2013
Possibilities That Require Careful Observation, Not Rushing To Conclusions
Some observers and analysts are rushing to conclusions and predicting outcomes. For instance, American-Western dialogue with Iran is portrayed as inevitable rapprochement, and talk about the Geneva 2 conference depicts it as a complete victory for (...)

18 - 11 - 2013
John Kerry And The Shift In Sensitivity
The U.S. Secretary of State, whoever occupies the post, is not a likeable person in the Arab world. Indeed, it is this person who implements a despicable policy and represents despicable interests over which we have become accustomed to agree, (...)

12 - 11 - 2013
Who Destroyed "Levantism"?
Levantism, or Arab Levantism, is a new call being made today by voices and parties that support the Syrian regime. Even former security officer and current Syrian ambassador to Amman, Bahjat Suleiman, has volunteered his views on the matter, setting (...)

09 - 11 - 2013
Bassem Youssef and "Liberalism"
With some generosity and exaggeration, historian Albert Hourani used the term the "liberal age" to describe the time between the British occupation of Egypt in 1882 and the end of the 1930s. The reasons that have justified accusing Hourani of (...)

05 - 11 - 2013
Let Us Prepare Ourselves For The Great Frustration
After the defeat of June 1967, frustration overwhelmed the Arab peoples and their elites, in a manner that went even beyond what happened after 1948. Frustration spread everywhere, in daily discourse as in literature and theater, and in intellectual (...)

05 - 11 - 2013
The Syrian War on Terror
Over two and half years, the theory of "combating terrorism" came ahead of all else when it came to the discourse of the Syrian regime in its war against its people. The theory of defending "Arabism" appeared from the outset to be fragile and (...)

29 - 10 - 2013
Syrian Displacement: Neither Peoples Nor Causes
When the Nakba occurred in Palestine in 1948, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled to neighboring countries, most of the host peoples and countries received them in two ways: On the one hand, pledging ad nauseam to liberate Palestine and (...)

26 - 10 - 2013
The Arab Muslim Brotherhood Has No Model
In a movement saturated with ideology like the Muslim Brotherhood, it is difficult to accept this much dearth in model and appeal. Even if we accept the golden era of early Islam as the model of the Muslim Brotherhood, this is still not enough to (...)

22 - 10 - 2013
The Tragedy Of The Revolution, The Tragedy Of Syria
The revolution, any revolution, assumes that by toppling the existing regime, it can topple the entire status quo. To be sure, the regime is often the source, architect, and executor of the status quo. And the more tyrannical a regime is, and the (...)

21 - 10 - 2013
Will Tunisia Rescue The ‘Arab Spring' And The Muslim Brotherhood?
One step forward, and one step back; one step to the right, then one to the left; this is how the Ennahda movement in Tunisia moves away from the resignation of the government of Ali al-Arid, the only acceptable prelude for serious dialogue followed (...)

08 - 10 - 2013
American-Iranian 'Rapprochement'?
It is truly amazing how joyous the Axis of Defiance has been with the ‘breakthrough' achieved in U.S.-Iranian relations, or in a more explicit and more candid description, the so-called American-Iranian rapprochement. This is like a bald man (...)

07 - 10 - 2013
Sudan's Difficult Path?
If the protests in Sudan continue, we will be facing the possibility of a new revolutionary experience that might go beyond economic grievances (fuel prices), to touch on the political issue of the regime itself. This trend, it seems, is what the (...)

02 - 10 - 2013
The Syrian Revolution And America: A Deadly Misunderstanding
If we put the small details aside, and also the humanitarian and moral appeals that major – morally and humanitarianly weak – policies ignore, we will find that there is a deep misunderstanding between the Syrian revolution and the United States, or (...)

25 - 09 - 2013
Lebanon: The Civil War that Never Passes
Among the many foul odors in Lebanon, there is one that emanates from the stance of the Lebanese vis-à-vis the past, the past of their civil war. Not only does the latter never pass, but it also remains their best project for the future. This is how (...)

23 - 09 - 2013
The Syrian Regime Exposed
Many differences over the interpretation of the recent U.S.-Russian agreement have surfaced, and over whether it was a defeat or a victory for the Syrian regime. But there are two main points that serious observers and pundits are in agreement (...)

17 - 09 - 2013
Obama's Weakness And The Weakness Of The Revolution
The postponement of the U.S. strike on Syria was seen, as usual, as an occasion to declare victory. According to the brilliant mind that the axis of defiance is blessed with, anything that does not kill automatically or cast dirt upon the corpse is (...)

15 - 09 - 2013
The Sorry State of the ‘Axis of Defiance'
In the folds of Western hesitation and reluctance over intervention in Syria, from waiting for the UN inspectors' report, to the vote at the British House of Commons, lies the Iraqi experience. Its manifestations can be seen in the fact that it has (...)

31 - 08 - 2013
In the Event of Intervention...
Perhaps the chemical attack in Ghouta has re-galvanized the idea of intervention that could follow the Kosovo model, or the Libya model. This is what a growing number of Western politicians and observers are alluding to, each in his or her way. In (...)

27 - 08 - 2013
These Regimes Do Not Depart
When areas in Ghouta near Damascus are bombed with chemical weapons, and the corpses of children are lined side by side in a picture reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust, the Syrian regime would have pushed its desire to survive to a surreal level. (...)

25 - 08 - 2013
This Is Monopoly and Expulsion, Not Politics
One of the leading causes of polarization in Egypt today, and to some extent in other countries of the Arab Levant, is that no one wants to sacrifice what they see as a non-comprisable principle, or to tolerate what appears strange or unfamiliar to (...)

20 - 08 - 2013
The Arab Orient: Violence Overcomes Politics
With the eruption of the ‘Arab Spring' wave of uprisings, it was hoped that healthy politics would be the main fruit of the newfound freedom. But a quick look at Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, which saw its own ‘spring' in 2003, and then at Lebanon, which (...)

17 - 08 - 2013
A National Debate on...Lebanon?!
Peoples, in order to remain peoples, are supposed to have something in common, or seek hard to build such denominators under the leadership of the party among them that is the most alert to this issue. If this is not possible, and if there is (...)

13 - 08 - 2013
Lebanon and Jordan vs. Syria and Iraq
It remains surprising that Lebanon and Jordan have not exploded, being two countries that are deeply and intimately affected by what happens in Syria and Iraq. True, conditions in the two small states are very bad, and the widespread reputation of (...)

09 - 08 - 2013
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