Hazem Saghieh is political editor of the London-based Arab newspaper al-Hayat
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Published in: HomeIslamists without a bookMost doctrines, political or religious, are embodied in sacred texts that act as guide and inspiration to their...
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Published in: HomeIraqis and Kurds: a question of responsibility
Iraq's escalating crisis highlights the contrasting attitudes to the United States of politicians in Baghdad and the...
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Published in: HomeGaza, and an Arab civil war
Behind the Arab rhetoric of unity over Gaza - and Syria or Iraq - lie deep and dangerous fractures.
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Published in: HomeIraq-Syria: roots of disintegration
Iraq's fragmentation and Syria's implosion are the long-term outcome of the follies of their Ba'athist and other...
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Published in: HomeBa'athism in Iraq-Syria: out of time
The influential nationalist-modernist ideology once attracted religious-sectarian support. Today that process is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA great unravelling, and a new map
The crisis around Iraq-Syria reflects the weight of a past that is no longer relevant to the region's peoples, says...