Jon Stewart and Middle East Resistance – Two Sides of the Same Coin
What do US comedian Jon Stewart and Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal have in common? What does Stewart have in common Continue reading
Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2)
This is the second installment of a two-part series. Read the first installment here. Palestinian resistance group Hamas has beaten Continue reading
Khaled Meshaal Interview: Hamas Chief Weighs In on Eve of Peace Talks
By Sharmine Narwani With pundits in most capitals already predicting failure for the US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace talks to begin on Continue reading
A Candid Conversation With The Arab League’s Amr Moussa – Peace Talks, One-State, Hezbollah, Iran and…”Foreign Fingers”
I met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa at his elegant quarters in the heart of Cairo last week Continue reading
The U.S. Military ‘Mainstreams’ Hezbollah and Hamas
Hezbollah and Hamas just went mainstream. According to Foreign Policy magazine’s Mark Perry, in a recent US military report “senior Continue reading
Thomas Friedman and His Mideast Blindspots
Nothing annoys me more about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman than his tendency to scuttle his occasionally insightful commentary Continue reading
Mideast “Proximity Talks” – The Theater of the Absurd
by Sharmine Narwani After a year of grandiose declarations on Mideast peace prospects and a gazillion trips to the region Continue reading
Israel Coming Unhinged: A Loose Cannon in a Volatile Region
by Sharmine Narwani Another war is looming in the Middle East, say the pundits. It is hard to ignore the Continue reading
Mideast Shuffle 