Netanyahu enlarges the circle of enemies
Sep 03,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH “I am doing everything to defend our nation’s security from all directions: in the north facing Lebanon and Hizbollah, in Syria […]
Who wants a new war in the Middle East?
Jul 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh While tensions in the region are reaching alarming levels, and the increasing pressure on Iran is having wider impacts, there is […]
A new century long hell in the Middle East
MERVE ŞEBNEM ORUÇ @mervesebnem Published 07.06.2019 Drawing parallels between the bloody conflicts in Europe before Westphalia, the U.S. in cooperation with Israel devise a strategy to create a minority-based fragmented […]
Palestinians will never allow a second Nakba to pass
May 15,2019 Seventy-one years since the Nakba, an epic event so fundamental in the anatomy of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, one thing stands out: It remains as vivid in the Palestinian […]
Trump doesn’t want a war with Iran – but he might get one anyway
Today’s political climate in the United States is different from the pre-Iraq war era — but the ambitions of some of the people in Congress are the same Negar Mortazavi […]
All recent murmurings from the White House signal the Israel-Palestine two-state solution is dead
Until recently for the international community, the concept had been the generally accepted way to begin resolving the 70-year conflict Bel Trew @beltrew Twice Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s smooth-talking son-in-law, has dodged […]
Revolutionaries in the Middle East have learnt crucial lessons since the Arab Spring
The success of popular action and civil disobedience in Sudan and Algeria has been treated sceptically by commentators. The pessimists might just be getting it wrong this time round, just […]
Arab Conference at Harvard sheds light on refugees, art and influence in the Middle East
Previous 1 / 2 2 / 2 TAREK ALI AHMAD RAY HANANIA April 06, 2019 A Harvard conference gathers thought leaders from the Mideast and the diaspora to discuss […]
Why Trump doesn’t always get it wrong on the Middle East
At an Independent readers’ event this week, I espoused a perhaps unpopular opinion Patrick Cockburn @indyworld The Independent Voices Must one talk of Donald Trump? One must and not just […]
Syria: a new front in the battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
REUTERS/US army By Nathalie Goulet The Middle East has never been an area of great stability. Areas of lawlessness or lacking of governance have multiplied since the US invasion […]
Donald Trump’s actions in the Middle East will damage his position far more than the Russia probe ever could
His close alliance with Saudi Arabia and escalating confrontation with Iran is the most radical new departure in Trump’s foreign policy Patrick Cockburn @indyworld The Middle East has a century […]
As Jamal Khashoggi’s friend and one of the last people to see him before he disappeared, these are my thoughts
As we sat for dinner after the conference, Jamal pointed out to me some of the negative tweets that were posted by his Saudi critics. He, like many compatriots, had […]
American travel writing about the Middle East
Sep 27,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – MARWAN M. OBEIDAT From the 1850s through the 1950s, nothing was more vital for the interpretation of the Arab-Muslim Middle East than the traveller […]
The U.S.’ grand security strategy for Middle East in crisis
MOJTABA BARGHANDAN A cleric and a woman walk past an anti-U.S. mural painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. U.S. foreign policy and a wider anti-Middle […]
China moves slowly into the Middle East
Yasar Yakis July 23, 2018 A forum was organized last week in Beijing by Tsinghua University, under the title “Constructing a security community: Equality, equity and justice.” There were four plenaries […]
China’s Xi pledges $20 billion in loans to revive Middle East
Reuters International This content was published on July 10, 2018 Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to representatives of Arab League member states at a China Arab forum at the Great […]
Hassan Rouhani: Iranian president pays official visit to Switzerland
This content was published on July 2, 2018 Schneider-Ammann had invited the Iranian president to visit Switzerland during his own official visit to Teheran in 2016, when he was president. […]
The ‘ultimate deal’ that Jared Kushner is proposing for Palestine would strip the people of all their dignity
Is there no humiliation left for the Palestinians? After Oslo, after the “two state solution”, after the years of Israeli occupation – of “Area A” and “Area C” to […]
King of Jordan, US president hold talks at White House
By JT – Jun 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, in the presence of Her Majesty […]
Can former Lebanese MP Mustafa Alloush turn even the coldest of Middle Eastern sceptics into an optimist?
Bullet holes still blister the buildings and army checkpoints control the roads up to the Alawite Jabel Mohsen district, but Alloush spots an illusory element about all this Robert Fisk […]