Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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The Death of Palestine: Israeli Ambition and Palestinian Weakness
By Tareq Ramadan Given the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations alongside the current policies of the Netanyahu administration, the recent Gaza episode can be viewed, in […]
Middle East “Allies” decline to Commit Forces, Resources against ISIL
By Juan Cole US Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting in Jedda with ten Middle Eastern foreign ministers produced a communique on Friday, but little […]
President Erdoğan to participate in key TÜSİAD meeting
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will join a meeting hosted by Turkey’s top business group next week, in a possible sign of improved relations with the […]
Arabs without God
By Brian Whitaker, author of Arabs without God In the midst of sectarian turmoil in the Middle East, one section of Arab society rarely gets […]
The Israeli version of Steven Salaita: Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism
By Amir Hetsroni This is how I became the Israeli version of Steven Salaita: I was teaching at Ariel University when administrators summoned me to […]
How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu
By Ramzy Baroud (Maan News Agency) Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly — his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried […]
Russia denounces Obama Plan for Syria Air Strikes as Violation of Int’l Law
By Juan Cole Russia on Thursday pushed back against President Obama’s state plans for taking on the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant […]
Obama’s ISIL Actions are Defensive, Despite Rhetoric of going on Offense
By Juan Cole President Obama’s speech launching his war on ISIL avoided the qualifications that he had earlier made, which had produced caviling inside the […]
ISIL isn’t Medieval: Revolution, Terror and Statemaking are Modern
By Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University Over recent weeks there has been a constant background noise that Islamic State and its ideology are some sort of […]
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