Middle East Chronicles
Books, Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments
Books ‘The Golden Cage’ by Shirin Ebadi
Ceasefire's Frederick Andrews reviews The Golden Cage, an intriguing semi-fictional collation of personal memories, encounters and stories by the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, May 21, 2011 0:00 - 2 Comments
Essay Syria: Blundering and Adapting
"By arresting schoolchildren, the regime caused protests in Dara’a. By killing protestors, the regime caused protests all over the country. Those who first called for reform now call for the fall of the regime." In a brilliant new essay, Syrian-British novelist and commentator Robin Yassin-Kassab diagnoses the repeated missteps and miscalculations of the Assad regime, and says change, no matter how protracted or tortuous, is now inevitable.
Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, January 30, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
From Bad to Worse: grim prospects for peace in the Levant
In the second feature in this week's 'Lebanon Special', Chris Bowles gives his predictions about developments in the region.
Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 23, 2010 19:34 - 0 Comments
Middle East Chronicles Egypt’s Missed Opportunity
In this week's 'Middle East Chronicles', Chris Bowles takes a look at next Sunday's Egyptian parliamentary elections, which have been publicised by the ageing ruling party as being "freer and fairer”. As Bowles argues, with a regime that has enjoyed 32 consecutive years in power, people can be forgiven for their scepticism.
Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:50 - 1 Comment
Politics The US Army’s code of dishonour
As the Wikileaks war logs revealed last week, the US army routinely ignored and abetted the killing and torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of the Maliki government. This is not without precedent. From West Beirut, Nussaibah Younis writes about the striking parallels between US policy in Iraq and its actions in Lebanon in the 1980s.
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