By Mamoon Alabbasi Iraq’s former national security advisor says that prior to Syrian uprising, Assad was helping ‘jihadi’ militants train in Syria to fight in Iraq Former Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie sits in front of a bust of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on 23 December 2013 (AFP) Iraq’s former national […]
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Egypt’s ongoing parliamentary elections – farcical in every sense, with a turnout so far ofonly 2 percent – are further proof that Egypt is witnessing the solidification of a quasi-authoritarian system of government, not a democratic revival. Most of Egypt’s new parliamentarians will be wealthy, elite, sympathetic to the nation’s current military president, and
By Soumaya Ghannoushi Sunni Islam is in turmoil. Over the last two decades, it has been in the grip of ferment and fragmentation unprecedented in its long history. After the wave of radicalisation that had swept across Shiism following the Iranian revolution of 1979, it was the turn of Sunni Islam, which represents around 80 percent
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By David Hearst If Jews want to preserve their ghastly collective memory from being desecrated they should tell Netanyahu he does not represent them For people who injected a fair amount of drama into the business of raising two children in post-war suburban North London (“it’s not as if I am buying a submarine” my mother
By Dilly Hussain When a secular state interferes in the private religious affairs of its citizens, it is no longer secular or democratic Barely a week after the UK Government announced that Islamophobic hate crimes would be treated as seriously as anti-Semitic attacks, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new set of counter-extremism measures on Monday, vowing to crackdown
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