Revealing Syria
Bashar al Asad is a dictator; his regime is a dictatorship. During the first days of repression, some voices attempted to exonerate him of...
The Turkish Elections
Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been reelected for a third consecutive term: undeniably a great achievement. Over the last ten years,...
Middle East: Independence and Dependency
Some call it the “Arab Spring”, others, the “Arab Revolutions”; still others, more cautious, use the neutral term “Arab uprisings”. It remains difficult to...
The Balkans and European Memory
WHILE VISITING THE BALKANS over the last few days I had ample occasion to meditate on recent European history, the Muslim presence, current tensions...
Barack Obama: words and symbols
Well said, badly heard Talk is cheap; seeing is believing
Almost two years after his June 2009 speech in Cairo, American president Barack Obama once...