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Articles of the author Mostafa Zein
Red Carpet for Barzani
Masoud Barzani is no longer forced to meet secretly with the Kurds in Turkey. He has become the leader and President of a "state" recognized by Ankara, one that seeks an exchange of interests with the latter on the basis of mutual respect, even if (...)

17 - 11 - 2013
America Attains Wisdom
Leading the world is a complicated task, and not an easy one. This is what the US administration knows and the conclusion it has reached after 12 years of continuous wars. These wars have exhausted it financially and militarily, according to (...)

09 - 11 - 2013
Maliki Appears Before Congress
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has brought along a great number of issues to Washington. Some of them are domestic, such as partnership in governance, elections, armament, militias, relations with the Kurds and oil. Others are regional, such (...)

02 - 11 - 2013
Maliki Appears Before Congress
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has brought along a great number of issues to Washington. Some of them are domestic, such as partnership in governance, elections, armament, militias, relations with the Kurds and oil. Others are regional, such (...)

02 - 11 - 2013
Amnesia
Demonizing others and portraying them as absolute evil in order to frighten people as a prelude to exterminating them or waging war against them, represents one of the main devices of McCarthyism. It was used by McCarthy in the 1950s in the United (...)

26 - 10 - 2013
On Virtual Reality
American-Iranian talks represent a major historical juncture in the international struggle over the Arab Gulf and the Levant. The two sides have reached this phase of détente in their crisis-laden relations, based on fact different from the virtual (...)

20 - 10 - 2013
Egypt And The Guardian Of Democracy
Ever since the Arab Spring began and before it became a tragedy, the United States has been trying to contain the changes it has produced and continues to produce, especially as those who were toppled had been its allies for decades. It used to (...)

13 - 10 - 2013
Biden, Obama and Israel
"If there were not an Israel, [the United States] would have to invent one". It is with this expression that US Vice President Joe Biden addressed the J Street organization, the "left-wing" version of AIPAC, at its yearly conference in Washington (...)

05 - 10 - 2013
The Conflict in the Middle East under New Management
The meetings of Iranian President Hassan Rohani with his French counterpart François Hollande and with British Prime Minister David Cameron, on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meetings, in addition to Obama's speech, have spread a (...)

28 - 09 - 2013
On Grand Strategies and Civil Wars
During the precedent Cold War, the United States made use of three main countries in the Middle East, in order to confront the spread of Communism and Nationalism. Turkey represented the first line of defense in the face of the Soviet Union. The (...)

21 - 09 - 2013
Not In Our Name
It is the same old game that always gets repeated: superpowers negotiating on behalf of weak countries and peoples; deciding their fate and the shape of their government; setting up the right president; removing one official and bringing in another; (...)

15 - 09 - 2013
The Savior from Tyranny
U.S. President Barack Obama has admitted that there is great and sharp division, both inside and outside the United States, over attacking Syria. However, Obama declined to say whether he was going to go ahead with the strike on Damascus or not, if (...)

10 - 09 - 2013
Deadly Democracies
The United States and its Western allies are still not confident about the ability of the armed Syrian opposition to assume power in Syria. Indeed, neither does its political structure allow this, nor does its Free Syrian Army (FSA) have the ability (...)

31 - 08 - 2013
Obama: Between Ideology and Pragmatism
The Neoconservatives have awaken once again. They have launched a major media campaign to portray President Barack Obama as merely a weak-willed "colored" man, who does not befit America, its history and its pride – one who, if he ever takes a (...)

25 - 08 - 2013
Washington's Disappointment in Egypt
The United States had been reassured by the Muslim Brotherhood assuming power in Egypt and their plans. It had seemed to it at first that these plans were steadily moving forward to form the basis of the new Middle East it seeks to build. And there (...)

18 - 08 - 2013
When McCain Visits us
The Arabs are never very optimistic about the appearances of Senator John McCain. The former pilot has not laid down his arms, ever since the time he was bombing the Vietnamese people. Crimes against humanity in Vietnam made him stronger. He still (...)

10 - 08 - 2013
On The Lebanese Situation
Lebanon is the country of political settlements, and settlements between "constituents" have allowed for the establishment of the state. This has been its history ever since Greater Lebanon was declared, and it had the four districts joined to Mount (...)

03 - 08 - 2013
The Rise of the Kurds and the Sect-State
Generally speaking, the peoples of the Middle East have not been able to reach the establishment of the nation-state and the consecration of the national principle. In fact, nationalist rhetoric has receded over the past few decades in favor of (...)

28 - 07 - 2013
A Sultan's Dream Fades Away
The "Arab Spring" has only been a front for the attempts of political Islam to rise to power with old programs, some of which date back to the 1920s, as in Egypt, and others trying to duplicate the experience of Turkey's Justice and Development (...)

21 - 07 - 2013
Rebels Against Abu Tammam
They are killing poets, digging up their graves to make examples of them and tearing out their statues wherever they may find them. Yesterday it was Abul Ala Al-Maarri, today it is Abu Tammam. They are against any sliver of light in this Arab (...)

14 - 07 - 2013
Egypt between Two Awakenings
What has been dubbed the Islamic Awakening was met by a social awakening. The Islamic Awakening relied on interpreting religious scripture so as to agree with its political aspirations. It accepted elections and the recognized branches of government (...)

08 - 07 - 2013
Iraq between Chapter VII and "Chapter I"
The United Nations (read: the United States) has removed Iraq from its obligations under Chapter VII, after it "fulfilled all its obligations" towards Kuwait, referring all unresolved issues between the two countries to Chapter VI. In other words, (...)

30 - 06 - 2013
The Stagnant Nature of Ideology
The fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I represented the end of political Islam's dream of a return to the caliphate. Nationalist political parties thus spread in the Arab World, which had just emerged from the tyranny of sultans who had (...)

23 - 06 - 2013
"Let the Bad Guys Kill Each Other"
Neoconservative theorist Daniel Pipes, the man behind the concept of "militant Islam", has advised the United States and the West not to allow one side to triumph over the other in the war taking place in Syria, so as to "let the forces of evil (...)

15 - 06 - 2013
The Grand Vizier
Can Erdogan contain the movement of the street and the changes of society, or is the Turkish model headed towards its end? This question poses itself in Istanbul's Taksim Square and in Western decision-making circles. It is becoming more insistent (...)

09 - 06 - 2013
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