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The price of order in Ben Ali's fiefdom is paid in hidden violations, blocked lives and unaccountable power
Ankara is renegotiating its pro-west commitments and its Islamic family-ties
During the attack on Gaza, Israeli mental health professionals could be trapped between
Israeli identification with government policy, and Palestinian citizens of Israel, then considered ‘the enemy’
The military offensive against Gaza was the latest stage in a calculated assault on the feasibility of a Palestinian state, and in particular a viable Palestinian economy
Colonel Gaddafi's domain, now opening to the world, is more protection-racket than modern state
To get beyond slogans, each side in the Israel/Palestine debate must have a strong sense of their own collective preferences
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The state(s) and the right of return
Gershon Baskin
Is a “Jewish State” a “State of the Jewish people”?
Both these pieces are responses to Ahmed Badawi’s “Palestine: seize the initiative”
The pre-election games avoid Iraqis' real needs - but light in Kurdistan shows the way
Time to offer recognition of a Jewish state, but with conditions
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man of many labels; Iran's ‘everyman' crusading for the nation's downtrodden, champion of the Muslim world, self-fashioned historian with an amnesic grasp of 20th century events and, most recently, vote rigger of questionable skill. To date however, Ahmadinejad's reputation has not been readily associated with women's rights. His recent decision to nominate three female cabinet ministers has consequently aroused surprise and suspicion in many camps.
A case against the dismantling of Israel's West Bank communities has surprising consequences
openDemocracy's columnist, hit hard by 2003's blast, recalls. Plus: Caspar Henderson & David Hayes on Arthur C Helton, Guy Goodwin-Gill's tribute
An embarrassing soap-opera of two presidential daughters sums up the Arab predicament
A durable peace needs to solve the Palestinian refugee problem. It can be done. Here's how
How Lebanon's "resistance" movement is preparing for the next and decisive war with Israel
A voice for human rights, and our friend, died in Baghdad. An openDemocracy salute
A pioneer of geopolitics anticipates the work of creating peace and security in west Asia's "heartland"
The tendency of foreign observers to reduce complex Egyptian reality to formulaic description misses some of its most significant and dynamic elements
Pro-Gaza activists have a small window of opportunity
Can regional tensions be accommodated after the withdrawal of US forces in 2011?
A precise record of the individual victims of war is becoming a key objective of humanitarian work
The multiple crises of west Asia and north Africa require a vision of integrated and inclusive change
The issue of Israel’s West Bank colonies must not be subsumed by the larger Israel-Palestinian conflict
The “new western way of war” inflicts great harm on civilians. But how to define this harm?
The militant Islamist movement’s version of the war with Israel in mid-2006 is flawed
Their view of Tehran highlights the Arabs' missed political chances and false trails
The insecurity and violence of an ancient Arab land are creating a political implosion
The fight against corruption should be the foundation-stone of a clean post-occupation Iraq
The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans
Fatah and Hamas officials on the search for a political future for Palestine
Israel's prime minister is more concerned to appease his right-wing than engage with Palestinians
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