The Searchers
Moustafa Bayoumi : Lebanon
Tribalism is in vogue among conservative Middle East scholars. But a better understanding comes from investigating regional ties rather than sectarian divisions.
Middle East
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2008
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An Unlikely King
Bernard Avishai : Biography
An authoritative new biography of Jordan's King Hussein offers an absorbing diplomatic history of the Middle East.
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Israel at 60: The State of the State
Eric Alterman : Israel
Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.
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What Lies Beneath
Adina Hoffman : Archaeology
The race for "Jewish" bedrock has turned a Jerusalem slum's archaeological riches into an existential threat.
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The End of History: With a Period, Not a Question Mark
Phyllis Bennis : Israel
Palestinians lament the Israeli-built wall and life under occupation, and fear permanent restricted access to the holy city of Jerusalem.
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No Blood For ...er, um...
Tom Engelhardt : Oil
More than five years after the invasion of Iraq--just in case you were still waiting--the oil giants finally hit the front page.
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Bush's Islamist Enemies List
Mohamad Bazzi : Lebanon
By conflating Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah, the President displays his ignorance--and could be laying the groundwork for attacks by Israel on Hamas and Hezbollah.
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On Not Passing Israel's 'Lynch Test'
Akiva Eldar : Israel
On the sixtieth anniversary of Israel's founding, one of the country's leading journalists reflects on history, the occupation and the duties of conscience.
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Architect of War(s)
Michael T. Klare : Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney's Mideast tour suggests another catastrophic military adventure in the Persian Gulf is still in the cards.
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Shadowplays
Neve Gordon : Non-Fiction
In a pair of groundbreaking books, Israeli historian Hillel Cohen explores the thorny issue of Palestinian collaboration with Zionists.
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Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?
Robert Dreyfuss : Iraq War
Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.
2007
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Al Jazeera Goes Mainstream
Ned Lamont : Journalists & Journalism
The Arabic and English satellite broadcasts are giving voice to Arabs who challenge their governments, and ours.
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Jobs, Justice and Democracy
Afshin Molavi : US Foreign Policy
Mideast policy must include development.
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The New McCarthyism
Larry Cohler-Esses : Higher Education
A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.
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Turkey's Finest Hour?
The sick man of Europe gets a jolt of life, but will it last?
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Exporting Instability
William D. Hartung : US Foreign Policy
Mideast stability can't be promoted with arms any more than democracy can be imposed through the barrel of a gun.
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Persian Ghosts
Chris Toensing : Islam & Muslims
The complex historical tensions between Sunnis and Shiites are not enough to explain the current crisis in the Middle East.
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Exodus
Stephen Glain : Migration & Immigration
Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.
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The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Dahr Jamail : Migration & Immigration
The war in Iraq has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in history, and no one seems to be paying attention.
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The Saudi Paradox
Recent anti-American rhetoric from the desert kingdom should not be taken at face value.
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Sect Symbols
To understand why the playground of Beirut has again become a battleground, look beyond the myth-making biographies of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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Hurricane Carter
Henry Siegman : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Jimmy Carter has been vilified for saying things about the occupation in his new book that appear regularly in Israeli newspapers.
2006
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Debating Security
The alleged British terror plot contrasts with the fruits of Bush's "war on terror": civil war in Iraq, an empowered Iran and Arab hatred. Let us instead seek security through diplomacy.
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'Mushroom Cloud' Rice, The Icy Spinmeister, Tries Again
Calvin Trillin : US Foreign Policy
Condi takes her "birth pangs" mantra on the road.
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AIPAC's Hold
The Congressional reaction to Hezbollah's attack on Israel and Israel's bombing of Lebanon provide the latest example of the lobby's grip on US foreign policy.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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