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Saudi's Trump Card: Dump Salafism
Tue May 15, 2012 3:14 AM EDT
A Closer-Knit GCC Saudi Arabia has made a futile attempt yesterday to forge a closer union of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Arab Gulf monarchies meeting in Bahrain were only lukewarm to the idea. It's not that the smaller members of the GCC don't recognize the …
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Syria, Iran, Israel: The Alternative Narrative
Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:31 PM EDT
The Syrian regime is convinced that they have won the first round with the popular rebellion against them. The opposition is miserably divided, no beachhead like Benghazi emerged, the Syrian military continues to hold overwhelming firepower while the international community has s …
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The Middle East: What really is happening
Sun Feb 6, 2011 12:37 PM EST
Mideast peace is possible and it's really not that hard to achieve: Israel's security must be guaranteed in return for Israel guaranteeing to be a peaceful neighbor. The only global power that can underwrite this is the US.
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Egypt: Why Mubarak won't go quietly
Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:14 AM EST
The situation in Egypt appears to be messy to the extreme.
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The Twitter war and the future of the Middle East
Sat Jun 5, 2010 4:07 AM EDT
We are truly turning our existence into virtual, and the dynamics of this virtual world has little to do with the physical one. On the day Israeli forces stormed the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, it wasn't only the IDF fighting an unsymmetrical war with club-wielding activists.
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Turkish storm promises Mideast quake
Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:24 PM EST
Turkey's autocratic, militaristic regime is coming to its end. There may well be backlashes, but there is no turning back the clocks. This train terminates at this station and it won't just be Turkey that changes tracks. The whole Middle East will be impacted.
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Osama Bin Laden's message to James Cameron
Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:20 AM EST
Sheikh Osama Bin Laden has just released a new audio tape on the occasion of the opening of the movie Avatar. The audio recording is being distributed by Al Qaeda's media arm Al Sahab and is believed to be authentic given specific and characteristic references of Bin Laden.
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Turks, Kurds, Armenians and Rajeh
Wed Oct 7, 2009 2:54 PM EDT
It's all about Rajeh of Lebanon. Not today's Lebanon, but the one in the frail, ailing days of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Lebanon of village mukhtars, shawishes* and onbashis* determining the social order.
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The Tragedy of Press Freedoms in Turkey
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:16 AM EDT
The New York Times dubbed it "A Clear Assault on the Press" in its recent editorial, after Turkey's Dogan Media Group was fined to the tune of $2.5 billion due to alleged tax irregularities. Except, The Times did not mention what it was all about.
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Khamanei: The Unbearable lightness of sitting on hollow ground
Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:47 AM EDT
- Near Tehran Another holy Friday, another unholy series of sermons from Iran's great-and-the-good.
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BBC slams -and promotes- IT giant that helped Iranian crackdown
Fri Jul 3, 2009 4:30 PM EDT
To cut a long story short: Ahmadinejad stole an election. His opponents, including some of the most powerful names of the regime, sent people to the streets to demonstrate. Tens of thousands of youngsters also protested, using Twitter, Facebook, SMS and so on.
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The end of the Iranian regime
Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:31 AM EDT
Iran's revolutionary regime has ended Friday night. Or at least it has taken the irreversible first step to self-destruction. The interior ministry declared an implausible vote percentage for the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Obama's Chance to Win Muslim Hearts and Minds in Istanbul
Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:29 PM EDT
Sorry, Ankara. You pale into insignificance compared to what Istanbul means for Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Iranians, Pakistanis and Indonesians. This is about Obama delivering a special message to the Islamic world during his upcoming Turkish trip.
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Valentine's Guide for Complicated Cases
Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:27 PM EST
This is for the cases where the man has a heart big enough to hold more than one love. For disasters to be avoided, prior planning is a must. Once you choose with whom to spend the Valentine's, carefully observe some basic rules.
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Google Translate Does Turkish
Wed Feb 4, 2009 2:57 PM EST
It finally came. Google Translate introduced Turkish yesterday. And it basically told Turks "Obama says he crapped." There is fun in the story, but first the serious part.
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PKK was probably a Turkish project
Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:45 AM EST
BBC's Pam O'Toole seems to have hit the nail on the head more than 15 years ago. She, together with a handful of mostly British journalists organized around BBC World Service and the Guardian newspaper, had coined the term "Turkish-Kurdish" for the PKK.
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Islam and Islamism in the Subcontinent
Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:35 AM EST
As I read Stratfor's excellent analysis of Pakistan's pains of dealing with Islamism, I could not help but reflect on how secular our analysis framework has been on dissecting the diametrical opposition between Islam and Islamism.
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Georgia: Turkey's Lucky Break
Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:37 PM EDT
Once, a famous US diplomat said Turkey and US were not natural allies. He was addressing a sympathetic but suspicious Turkish audience who felt it hard to digest the message.
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Radio is Back - What to Listen to During the Election Season and In the Age of Internet
Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:07 AM EDT
My relationship with international radio goes back a long time. Something like 28 years.
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Hidden Premises about Islam (2): "Reform will fix Islam."
Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:01 AM EDT
It won't. And it could make things much worse. This is the second in my series of major fallacies on Islam.
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Hidden Premises on Islam (1): "Wahhabis are Sunnis."
Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:57 AM EDT
They are not. And it is fallacious to say they are. This is the first in a series of pieces I plan to write on the dangers of hidden premises and logical fallacies about Islam.
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Al Jazeera, BBC Arabic Television and The Arab Leauge
Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:10 AM EST
What a funny outfit this Arab League is...
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MacBook Air is Hot. Here's Why
Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:23 AM EST
There are a few things about the new MacBook Air that disappointed me. Like it being a Mac without a firewire port. Like the presence of just one USB port. Like the sub-100GB storage options. I can hardly store or manage any videos on this.
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Turkish-US Relations on Virtuous Cycle
Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:52 AM EST
I was asked by a key European media figure about how the Turkish media is reading President Abdullah Gul's US visit and what I thought about it all.
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Turkey and US back on track
Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:47 PM EST
The US has a big problem: It's called Turkey. Turkey tops the list of countries with the highest unfavorable opinion of the US. We know it's not the values. It's the policies, actions, intentions and the perceptions thereof.
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I'm looking at the issue from another perspective: the capabilities of the Turkish military. For both actually fighting wars and preventing them Turkey will need a much stronger military. Especially as deterrence against Iran. Seeing how the Turkish media blows a small bombing campaign out of proportion and makes mountains out of molehills I now understand that both the public and the military in Turkey have to sit down and think about who we are, what our goals are and how are we going to reach them.
Thinking about an even REMOTE possiblity of Turkey being excluded from NATO and it's protection makes me lose sleep.
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Saudi's Trump Card: Dump Salafism
A Closer-Knit GCC Saudi Arabia has made a futile attempt yesterday to forge a closer union of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Arab Gulf monarchies meeting in Bahrain were only lukewarm to the idea. It's not that the smaller members of the GCC don't recognize the …
Syria, Iran, Israel: The Alternative Narrative
The Syrian regime is convinced that they have won the first round with the popular rebellion against them. The opposition is miserably divided, no beachhead like Benghazi emerged, the Syrian military continues to hold overwhelming firepower while the international community has s …
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