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From North Africa to Iran, Hizballah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah’s war has captured the imaginations of millions of Muslims. However, popularity of this sort in the Arab world seldom translates into anything substantive in political or strategic terms. It is…
read moreAfter six months of crippling sanctions, Hamas’s leaders are trying to figure out the very minimum they need to say – and the even less they plan to do – to end their isolation and salvage their government. Skepticism is…
read moreDear SAR friends, We are pleased to inform you that Iranian Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo was released on bail from Evin prison last week. Thanks to the many concerned individuals who responded to the June alert and wrote letters of appeal…
read moreAmerican Liberalism and the Euston Manifesto Written by Jeffrey Herf et al. Tuesday, 12 September 2006 We are signers or supporters in the United States of the Euston Manifesto and its reassertion of liberal values. We are signers or supporters…
read moreOriana Fallaci, the writer and renowned Italian journalist, died on Friday. She was 76. Fallaci, who had been diagnosed with cancer years ago and who was living in New York, had come back to her hometown in Florence days ago…
read moreSeptember 12, 2006 — WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn’t help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However,…
read moreThe following excerpt of an article is co-authored by Ben Fishman, researcher and special assistant at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Mohammed Yaghi, associate of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a columnist for al-Ayyam.…
read moreMankind has thousands of years of experience and history to revisit andlearn from our past mistakes. But this is a sad time in our existence. It is2006, a time when it is said humans have undergone a technological renaissance.Intellectually we…
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking during an interview to Haaretz in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Eyal Warshavsky / BauBau) Western leaders are increasingly aware of the global nature of the struggle against Islamic extremism led by Iran, but within Western…
read moreIt is often said that the United States isn’t easy on its scholars and public intellectuals–that they are not accorded the prestige and respect that they are given in the Old World… [But] since arriving in the United States in…
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