Anti-Semitism Widespread in Muslim World

.: February 13, 2010

Muslim anti-Semitism represents to a large extent the "Arabization" of Islam, according to the journalist Salim Mansur.

Why Are Egypt’s ’Liberals’ Anti-Semitic?

.: October 28, 2009

As recently as the 1930s, Jews held ministerial posts in the country.

The tragedy of the Yemeni Jews

.: June 7, 2009

The government has stood by and let jihadist gangs drive Jews out of Yemen. Now their community is on the brink of extinction.

Israel: Beware our American friend

.: April 15, 2009

"Saying ‘no’ to Obama won’t necessarily undermine our friendship with US", according to Elyakim Haetzni.

Producing Panic in America’s Allies

.: March 17, 2009

The Obama administration has offered to talk to America’s enemies across the globe, especially in the Middle East, according to Amir Taheri.

First Gaza, then the world

.: January 3, 2009

The confrontation in the Gaza Strip is not between Hamas and Israel, but rather between Al Qaeda, Iran and radical Islam, and the free world.

Education for Tolerance: A Ray of Hope in a Troubled Region

.: December 8, 2008

This editorial is the fruit of collaboration between Israelis and a Kuwaiti who view education for peace and tolerance toward the "other" as a necessary step on the road to peace and development in the Middle East.

An Arab and Muslim Middle East? No thanks!

.: December 2, 2008

This article, which appeared in the liberal Turkish daily Hürriyet, is Masri Feki’s response to coverage in The Guardian newspaper of his lecture on minorities given at the London Middle East Institute on 18 September 2008.

India: still at sea

.: November 27, 2008

They came out from the sea, while the Indian security agencies remained paralysed. If anyone needed a lesson on how to conduct special operations from the sea, they could take a leaf out of the book of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai.

Iran’s war on Sunni Muslims

.: October 17, 2008

Tehran’s leaders are intensifying their repression of the Sunni Baloch people, in a bid to create a Shia-dominated nation.

Palestinian territories: en route to another Intifada?

.: September 25, 2008

As long as the Palestinian world was divided into two separate entities only on the physical level, this could go on, yet in January this world will be divided into two on the legal front as well - a development that would mark the ultimate collapse of Palestinian politics, according to an important Israeli political scientist.

Iraq and Turkey: regional cooperation will change the region

.: August 12, 2008

While Iraq is in great pain because our eastern neighbor has decided to follow Saddam’s path to nihilism, our northern neighbor extends a hopeful hand of friendship, trust and promising prosperity.

Iran gets its own way and delays nuclear discussion

.: August 5, 2008

Iran has achieved, yet again, what it wants: paralysis of the international wrangling over its nuclear programme while avoiding outright confrontation with the US or Europe.

US will not attack Iran

.: July 18, 2008

US wants it absolutely clear it has no intention of attacking Iran’s nuclear installations.

Iraq’s Real Gains

.: April 9, 2008

Deputy Prime minister of Iraq : "As we mark the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, it is important to reflect on the journey we have embarked upon."

Iraq plus five: what went right

.: March 24, 2008

Judging by the way much of the Western media is dealing with the Iraq War’s fifth anniversary, we’re still fighting the acrimonious debates of 2002 and early 2003. Focusing on the past, however, may prevent us from understanding what’s happening in Iraq today and its effect on the broader region.

Integrating Israel into the Middle East

.: March 10, 2008

In this must-read article in the Turkish Daily News, Masri Feki articulates a new vision for the Middle East - one which is neither Arab nor Muslim, but where Israel takes its rightful place alongside Arab moderates and minorities.

Limiting female university enrollment rates‎

.: March 9, 2008

One has to admit that, for many Iranian girls, receiving a college education is the only way to ‎enter the labor market and achieve social mobility. This is precisely why female university ‎enrollment rates have continued to rise over the years in Iran.

Constitutional musings: on the state of Arabic

.: February 15, 2008

In this article, Aryeh Tepper argues that the State of Israel should grant constitutional status to the Arabic language because of its significance for Jewish identity. While Zionsim has been a political success - the Jewish people have re-established a state in their ancestral homeland - to the degree that it has assigned to the Jewish people a Western identity, as opposed to a universal, multi-lingual identity, it has been a cultural failure. In this context, granting official, constitutional status to Arabic would constitute one small step in returning the Jewish people to itself.

Is Pan-Arabism a Nationalism without a Nation?

.: August 4, 2007

For a long period of time those called Arabs were the tribes living in the Arabian Peninsula… After the Islamic conquests, the number of Arabic-speakers began to rise. These new Arabic-speakers could not claim descent from the Arabs, and for many centuries they were not viewed as Arabs, nor did they consider themselves to be such.

Is the Iranian-Syrian Axis Lasting?

.: July 26, 2007

Allies in the “evil axis” of President Bush, Iran and Syria are however two distinctly different states. Is this strategic entente safe from change?

National-Islamism: an Iranian Paradox?

.: July 17, 2007

Sometimes “pan-Shi’a”, sometimes “Perso-centric”, what seems to be an Iranian paradox is not. In reality, there is a traditional dialectic between these two articulations : pan-Shi’ism reinforces the positions of the Iranian nation-state as a regional actor while the existence of a Shi’a sanctuary reinforces the will for the whole Moslem world to convert to Shi’ism.