A new contributor to This Week's Window on the Middle East often takes visitors around his neighbourhood to show off some of the more interesting sites; from the ancient Synagogue of Maon to Kerem Shalom and the Halutza settlements.
Today progress made in the dialogue between the Troika and the opposition relies largely on how far Ennahdha goes in acknowledging Nidaa Tounes as a legitimate political entity.
The two Iraqi Kurdish parties’ entanglement in the Syrian Kurdish issues seems to have resulted in anti-Assad rebels and extreme jihadists retaliating against the KRG, in a spillover of the Syrian civil war.
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets, first and foremost from the people of Egypt.
Old patterns of thinking remain, you see, and everyone wants a quick solution.
I dub the older generation the i-generation, i- for inertia as well as “me, myself and I”. The i-generation’s every action is driven by fear; fear of the country falling into a shambles or into the hands of the wrong people.
Turkey needs to develop a sustainable Syria strategy if it wants to deter any internal and external threats and be influential in Syria's future.
When all a politician needs to do is to pay the price of his/her misdemeanor and move on—which does not even come out of his/her own pocket but rather that of the taxpayer’s—would any politician prefer to take the blow personally?
Despite some grandstanding by high-ranking politicians stating that Lebanese women should have full citizenship rights, these promises, needless to say, have so far come to nothing.
