Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeks to correct some misconceptions about his feelings on Jews and Israelis: "We are opposed to the idea that the people who live there [Israel] should be thrown into the sea or be burnt," he said. Well. He maintains an opposition to the Zionist regime, and believes a new government should be chosen […]
WSN: Why do we keep hearing that all or most of the Shias are with Hizballah? AA: The story that Shias are with Hizballah is far from being accurate. Iran is spending a lot of money in Lebanon, and that's why they are able to have a base of supporters, services and a social network […]
GCC states don't anticipate much fallout from the current … situation on Wall Street at this point (this point being Wednesday … so we’ll see). Many of the Gulf currencies, though, are pegged to the dollar, so it remains to be seen how effectively they can avoid the impact of US market fluctuation. The GCC […]
OIJ (my acronym, re-use at your own risk) is a part of the al-Qaeda network. Yemen has taken 25 men into custody as suspects.
… 46% to 20% who affiliate with the Republican party. This is true because of all the reasons the Republican party is struggling right now (don't make me name them), plus being at the target end of recent civil liberties infringements. Can anyone think of a good lipstick-on-a-pig joke about this?
The NYU Center for Global Affairs hosted an event recently called CGA Scenarios: Iran 2015. The goal of the event was to produce a publication that examined three different possible scenarios for the US relationship with Iran over the next 7 years in a manner cognizant of the complex nature of Middle East politics and […]
Tzipi Livni, formerly Israel's Foreign Minister, was elected Prime Minister. She has three months to assemble a working coalition, or new elections will be held. Since she's been active in the peace talks up to this point, we can expect a continued focus on that issue. She was profiled by the Times magazine last year […]
The US embassy in Yemen today was attacked by car bombers. 16 people were killed, none of them Americans. US officials are blaming al Qaeda.
This agenda has one article: disarming Hezbollah. We will reject it and we will only discuss how to build a strong state, which supports its population and army in confronting Israeli attacks. [NOW Lebanon] I agree with Mousawi. Lebanon should reject ALL foreign agendas and promote the Lebanese national interest full stop. Is Hizballah [and […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece (or had – last week) on Saudi Arabia's massive recent investment in the education sector. Other Gulf states are also cultivating investment in education, albeit more importing it than manufacturing it locally – my former workplace, NYU, just opened a campus in Abu Dhabi and my alma […]
which is to say, as US influence diminishes, Iran steps in to fill the vacuum, at least according to this piece in the LA Times. It certainly hasn't been a secret that Iran has been involved in events in Baghdad since the early days of the American presence there, but as Maliki asserts himself further […]
A while ago I met Ayatollah Fadlallah. Definitely, an interesting experience. After the Khomeini revolution in Iran, the Shia and other Islamic parties supported the revolution extensively since it represented the fall of the American policy with the fall of the Shah. This doesn't mean that the Shia outside Iran are linked to Iran in […]
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