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Why Erdogan should take a lesson from India
Why Erdogan should take a lesson from India Alok Mukherjee* On a recent trip, our young taxi driver hailed…
Pushing Iran to the brink
The decision to impose a European Union oil embargo on Iran, agreed on Monday, by European foreign ministers,…
Qatar wields an outsize influence in Arab politics
Qatar is smaller than Connecticut, and its native population, at 225,000, wouldn’t fill Cairo’s bigger neighbourhoods. But for…
The Significance Of Modi’s Saudi Trip
Narendra Modi, whose humble origin as a “chaiwallah” (tea-seller) has been much-publicized in the past two years, will…
Waiting For The Arab Summer
Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of youths mobilizing in…
???Most Pakistanis Don???t Want The Army In Politics???
Unrepentant Marxist, writer, journalist, filmmaker and political campaigner, Tariq Ali is still searching for socialism with a human…
The oppressor is man, not Islam
The media usually salivates and greedily laps up stories of ???Islam oppressed me, but now I’m liberated! Let’s…
Saudi Arabia’s three worries
It was a very discreet meeting deep in the English countryside. The main speaker was Prince Turki al-Faisal,…
Economics Of Terror
On August 18, 2015, Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad, a Syrian archaeologist, was publically beheaded by the Islamic State of…
Strategic Surprise In West Asia
Moscow’s carefully planned military intervention in Syria has shocked Western policymakers. The impressions over the past year seemed…