Reporting for the Middle East Political and Economic Institute, Foreign Policy Association blogger Manuela Paraipan brings us an exclusive interview with Former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. Please visit the
In the beginning, the Arab world was ecstatic with the prospects of President Barack Obama changing the dynamic between the West and the Middle East. His background and willingness to sit down with Arab and Muslim leaders sparked optimism that finally, after eight years of demonization, the Arab world would have a fair hearing by […]
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), an observant Mormon, bid Jews a happy Hannukah this year in his own special way- by penning a song for the chosen people. While this is definitely not the biggest news of the day, it may be among the funniest. The video has gotten a lot, a lot, a lot, a […]
This morning Iraq’s presidency council voted to delay parliamentary elections until March 7th of 2010. The decision came after a meeting at President Jalal Talabani’s residency late Tuesday which included Talabani and two vice presidents, Adel Abdul Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashimi, along with Faraj al-Haidari, head of the IHEC. Although the elections were previously slated […]
Cement, mortar and stone are being pulled out and slowly erected to separate Israel, except instead of the Jewish state building a structure for alleged security purposes, the European Union is separating itself from the Middle East’s only democracy by propagating a policy while being ignorant of the facts. EU foreign ministers accepted a proposal today that calls for […]
The United States is not taking the support offered by the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to the Iranian nuclear program lightly (Here is a previous blog I wrote on this topic). This week as the Turkish prime minister met with President Obama in Washington D.C., Iran’s nuclear program was very much a topic of […]
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that showed just how desperate the Iranian government is getting. If harassing Iranian protesters living in Iran was not enough, the Iranian authorities are now threatening Iranians living abroad. As the article states: In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating […]
President Barack Obama’s appointee to lead administration efforts to combat anti-Semitism is still unsure of how her new role with involve responding to anti-Israel comments. Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, began federal service today and purports views in-line with J Street, the pro-peace pro-Israel lobby (she sits on the […]
Living in Washington D.C., New York, or Tel Aviv might lead you to sometimes forget that misconceptions about Jews and anti-Semitism still run rampant in the U.S., Europe, and -shockingly- in the Arab world. A new You Tube video is going viral that depicts a clearly anti-Semitic man questioning the loyalty of British Jews. His […]
This week, Lebanon’s new cabinet issued its policy statement regarding Hizballah. With some strong reservations from a handful of Christian leaders, the cabinet came out in support of Hizballah’s continued military presence in Lebanon as a resistance to Israel. There are at least two reasons for this. First, Hizballah is the force most capable of […]
Because the U.S. post war reconstruction plan in Iraq has been grossly mishandled and has proven to be largely ineffectual, Iraqi artists and filmmakers have decided to take cultural reconstruction efforts into their own hands. Recently in Baghdad, Iraqi filmmakers unveiled the city’s first traveling film festival, showcased at sites where explosions have ruined cultural […]
If you thought Hamas and the Israelis couldn’t be any more divergent in their views, guess again. The way each society deals with one particular issue is relatively indicative of the mentality of both. That issue is mind altering substances, and yes, the results of the disagreement could be deadly. As the prevalence of alcohol in Israel continues to […]
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