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Thomas Friedman — Hasbara GrandMaster Or Elitist Dupe?
Hard as I try, my mouth is fixed in an unattractive gape — unable, it seems, to correct itself. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, in his usual clumsy attempts to suggest liberal sympathy while...
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Looking Under My Bed For Al Qaeda
by Sharmine Narwani I looked under my bed last night. Just in case. And don’t tell me you haven’t either. With Al Qaeda popping up in new countries every day, it seemed prudent to make sure a spanking...
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A Candid Conversation With The Arab League’s Amr Moussa – Peace Talks,...
I met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa at his elegant quarters in the heart of Cairo last week — on the eve of the League’s crucial meeting with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas...
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Egypt’s Fake Election — Covering the Electoral Shenanigans of a Top US Ally
This entry has been UPDATED – see below. Welcome to the Pyramids. Here, to your right, lies the ancient world in all its glory and splendor. The birthplace of a civilization, the incubator of...
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Getting in Line for a Revolution
What is interesting about the tsunami of change sweeping through the Middle East this past month is that the “dumb, undeserving-of-democracy” Arab masses have turned out to be magnificently saavy,...
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Washington’s Valentine’s Day Faux Pas in the Middle East
Valentine’s Day, and not a whole lot of love in the Middle East, as clashes between government forces and protestors broke out in Bahrain, Iran and Yemen. Washington, as usual, did nothing right. After...
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Hillary Dusts off Iranian Bogeyman…Again
By Sharmine Narwani US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to have a tough time grasping what kids on the streets of Cairo and Manama understand with ease. Politicians – elected and otherwise –...
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Three Mideast Stink Bombs
By Sharmine Narwani Popular revolts may be spinning through the Arab world with a fervor and determination not seen in decades, but efforts to sidetrack the reform momentum are also gaining strength....
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On Our Way to Palestine…
“You know what scares Israel more than Arab armies or Iranian nukes? Palestinian refugees simply walking home.” - Seen on Twitter on Nakba Day Sunday marked the Nakba — or day of “catastrophe” in...
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Mideast Backlashes Yet to Come
By Sharmine Narwani The Middle East is treading water these days. Two years of rhetoric about ousting dictators, revolution, freedom, honor, dignity and democracy – without result – has people on...
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Why Arabs Need Iran – Part 1
By Sharmine Narwani In 2011, when Arab revolts began to sweep the Middle East and North Africa, the view from Washington and its closest allies was one of concern. How would the removal of mostly...
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Arabs, Beware the “Small States” Option
One of many maps of a “New Middle East” floating around. By Sharmine Narwani At the heart of all politics lies cold, hard opportunism. New circumstances, changed alliances and unexpected events will...
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Forget Democrazy, Give me Safe Borders
By Sharmine Narwani Almost three years after the Arab Spring began its region-wide sweep – ostensibly in search of democratic change – scant attention has been paid to one of its most dangerous...
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“Security Arc” forms amidst Mideast terror
Map of ‘Security Arc’ by S. Narwani, E. Adaime, A. Amacha Many observers are correct in noting that the Middle East is undergoing yet another seismic shift – that the Russian-brokered destruction of...
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From religion to politics, a steady isolation of Saudi Arabia
Read this article translated into Indonesian and French. In the waning days of August, 200 or so Sunni clerics and scholars from Egypt, South Africa, India, Europe, Turkey, Jordan, Yemen, Russia and...
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There will be no partition of Syria
This article was first published on RT’s Op-Edge on December 29, 2016 and has been translated into French, Portuguese and Spanish. Aleppo has been liberated, and regime-change has long lost its luster,...
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After Riyadh summit, Sunni unity crumbles
The glowing orb stunt should have been a sign that all was not what it seems. Theatrics, in the world of politics, usually suggest an illusion needs to be spun for audiences somewhere. A week after US...
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