The Judaization of Israel
November 9, 2013 11:04 pm Leave your thoughts
On my 16th birthday, in 1939, I rushed to the district registration office of the Government of Palestine to change my name officially
Tag Archive: Middle-East
A Lifetime of Disillusion
November 9, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I recently turned sixty five. This is the same age as the State of Israel. From our side of the fence (or should I say 'of the Separation Wall'), it the same date as the birthday of our dispossession as a Palestinian people
Is Islam Compatible with Democracy?
October 29, 2013 11:42 pm Leave your thoughts
The Western world, used to its democratic frame of mind, is constantly telling Muslims in general and Arabs in particular, to build democratic governments
The Culture of Blame Will Get Us Nowhere
October 5, 2013 8:39 pm Leave your thoughts Dr Faysal Mikdadi challenges the culture of blame associated with the long running conflict between Palestinins and Israelis
Killjoy Was Here
October 5, 2013 1:21 am Leave your thoughts Journalist and former Knesset member, Uri Avnery, reviews Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations
Who is listening to the Syrian people?
October 1, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Throughout the whole Syria crisis, one thing which has been striking, is the clear absence among British political circles, to actually listen to the points being raised by the Syrian people
Iraq: The Beats and the Bedouins
September 25, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, day to day accounts of what was taking place did not come from left or right wing journalists but from ordinary Iraqi writers, who gave outsiders a unique insight into events
Why Do They Hate Our Freedoms So Much?
September 1, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Former President Bush Junior, not remembered for being remotely articulate, claimed that "our enemies hate our freedoms".
The formula for revolution
August 26, 2013 12:14 am Leave your thoughts
Three years ago few predicted that a revolution, a coup and an emergent civil war would soon explode in a country considered a prime tourist hot spot and ruled by the same autocrat for nearly 30 years
Marx and the Muslim Brothers
August 19, 2013 3:10 am Leave your thoughts
How should one respond to the claim that Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are "Marx's contemporary successors"?