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the middle eastFrom Jordan and Syria to Egypt and Iran, openDemocracy writers track the issues behind the headlines. Gilles Kepel takes the temperature of the Muslim world after 9/11, Daniel Swift examines the deeper currents of Egyptian ‘democracy’, and Ali Shukri assesses the dilemma for Syria after the overthrow of the fellow Ba’athist regime in Iraq.
Syria is now being courted by the US as the key to unlocking peace in its troubled region
Have women’s lives in Gaza been constrained by a patriarchal ideology under the rule of Hamas? One Gazan resident says no: quite the reverse.
Nadera
Shalhoub-Kevorkian talked to Jane Gabriel about her latest book ‘Militarization
and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East'. A
Palestinian case-study. In which she analyses Palestinian women's agency and
the many different ways in which they create counter spaces to the
militarization of their daily lives.
As summit follows summit, the fate of the Gazan people once again hangs in the balance and reconstruction is still on hold
Misreading resistance in the Middle East, the European Left risks consigning itself to irrelevancy
The writer and Saqi publisher died on 17 February 2007. Her last article - on Beirut - is here. Plus: memory trio, and life journey
Muslim scholars and activists from forty eight countries are today
launching a global initiative insisting that in the twenty first
century "there cannot be justice without equality" between men and
women.
Sky rocketing rates of women's employment in Muslim countries and recent scholarship that has developed a vision of Islam that insists on equality between men and women, mean that the global pressure to reform Muslim family law is mounting, writes Cassandra Balchin.
Israeli women's organisations demand immediate peace talks, not war: that words and actions be conducted in another language
Controversial and polemic, a book review by Harvard scholar presents Hamas as a complex and evolving organisation.
Anwar Sadat was killed on this day in 1981. What has changed in Egypt since? (archive)
Three countries with three elections in 2008-09 make a political strategy for Iraq's future urgent
George W Bush's administration has unfinished business with Tehran and Baghdad
The Damascus-Jerusalem parley will need luck and skill to avoid becoming a lost opportunity
The poison-gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja on 16 March 1988 remains an open wound for many of its victims
Iraq's political system must be repaired at national level if local progress is to be made
The reception of a report on Israel's Lebanon war suggests the next conflict may be near
A transformation in energy policy will reshape the middle east's profile as a region defined by oil
Arab Christians were agents of progress in the Arab and Muslim world. What happened?
Syrian influence across Lebanon's porous borders is intensifying the country's divisions
US efforts to undermine Hamas and Hizbollah are part of a divisive and unprincipled middle-east strategy
Two worlds collide in a London taxi. Bissane El-Cheikh was one
During the Hizbollah war of 2006, two logics - "riviera" and "citadel" - appeared in sharp outline (archive)
Lebanon's security as well as its self-interest demands humanity and respect towards the Palestinians it hosts
The Arabs' defeat by Israel in the lightning war of 1967 was followed by a deeper failure, says Hazem Saghieh.
Iran is up, Syria down, and Lebanon in trouble: Robert G Rabil assesses a new configuration in regional politics.
The Winograd report dissects Israel's military and political failings in the Lebanon war of 2006. It also leaves the country's leaders with only one option, says Thomas O'Dwyer.
The deep and enduring split between Islam's two great sects cannot be healed in a climate of Muslim and Arab denial, says Hazem Saghieh.
Robert G Rabil's book reveals a Syria-United States relationship more changeable and nuanced than post-9/11 rhetoric indicates, says Carsten Wieland.
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