My World Is Upside Down
April 18, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What does the ordinary Arab man or woman in the street think about current events? Dr Faysal Mikdadi ponders
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Maalouf’s Disordered World
April 11, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dr Faysal Mikdadi reviews Amin Maalouf's Disordered World
Iraqi Freedom Ten Years after Liberation
March 13, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Next week, on Tuesday 19 March, many of us will remember how, precisely
ten years ago, in another and dreamlike existence, we incredulously
watched the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. Faisl Mikdadi shares some personal reflection
“Leave. Go to Brixton- you’ll make it there”
January 11, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am a Palestinian British Muslim. I take great pride in my dual heritage. There shouldn't be a price to pay for this duality, but there is. I have paid it always reluctantly, occasionally resentfully and once or twice bitterly, writes Faisal Mikdadi
New Year Resolutions in the Arab Spring
January 2, 2013 10:13 pm Leave your thoughts
Regrettably 2013 has started in a most ghastly realisation of my pessimistic forecast, writes Faysal Mikdadi. The Egyptian comedian, Bassem Youssef, has dared to poke fun at President Morsi and a charge has been filed against him for parodying the President's speeches
We Arabs know very little about democracy and understand even less
December 17, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts This is not a self hating statement made in frustration. It is simply the truth. The Arab World has never ever enjoyed a democracy as we understand it today in the Western World or as it was understood at the height of Athenian democratic rule, Dr Faisal Mikdadi says
Palestine and Israel: A Modest Suggestion for Peace (Part 2)
November 29, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Faisal Mikdadi discusses the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and presents a road map for achieving peace between all peoples and factions that reside in these lands (Part 2)
Palestine and Israel: A Modest Suggestion for Peace (Part 1)
November 28, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Faisal Mikdadi discusses the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and presents a road map for achieving peace between all peoples and factions that reside in these lands (Part 1)
Time Magazine and My Psychosis
November 4, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dr. Faysal Mikdadi discusses a recent letter he wrote to Time magazine
Bahrain
November 3, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
History replays itself over and over again. An endless loop. And we watch. Mesmerised. As if it were the first time. And we never learn... From Hungary to Bahrain, Dr Faisal Mikdadi contemplates the struggle for democracy.