• March 13, 2026
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Articles

Palestine: Demoralisation and Absence

By RAMZY BAROUD A once profound and widely read commentator recently claimed he no longer writes about the Palestine/Israel conflict […]

A Matter of Opinion

By RAMZY BAROUD What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil and a human rights […]

Somalia: What the News Failed to Report

By RAMZY BAROUD The people of Somalia are enduring yet another round of suffering as Ethiopian forces wreck havoc in […]

Peace and Democracy

By RAMZY BAROUD After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the […]

A Case for Arab Dignity

By RAMZY BAROUD The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be […]

Peace Conference is New Case for War

By RAMZY BAROUD The Middle East peace conference proposed by the Bush administration is clearly a smokescreen, aimed at concealing […]

Policing Truth: The Debate on Palestine, Israel

By RAMZY BAROUD The last time I spoke publicly in the United States before my current tour was nearly four […]

Burma is Not Iraq

By RAMZY BAROUD The 2003 invasion of Iraq has enabled two important realisations. First, that imperial powers act only to […]

Haider Abdul-Shafi: Passing Undefeated

By RAMZY BAROUD The recent death of Haider Abdul-Shafi could not have come at a worse time. Bearing in mind […]

Lebanon and Syria: The Politics of Assassination

By RAMZY BAROUD The assassination of Lebanese politician Antoine Ghanem on September 19 is likely to be used, predictably, to […]

Convenient Racism: The ‘Us’, ‘Them’ and ‘Non’ Factors

By RAMZY BAROUD Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded […]

September 11: Relevant Questions

By RAMZY BAROUD Osama bin Laden has once again managed to occupy the stage and to insist on his relevance […]

The Shiite Power Struggle: Hardly Good News for US in Iraq

By RAMZY BAROUD The decision made by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to halt his Mahdi Army’s attacks on occupation forces […]

US Arabs and Muslims: The Search for Common Identity

By RAMZY BAROUD As the security check line began moving slowly at Washington Dulles airport, one passenger standing a few […]

Opportunism Trumps in Palestine

By RAMZY BAROUD The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in […]

Managing Consent: The Art of War, Democracy and Public Relations

By RAMZY BAROUD It is Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of public relations in the 20th century. Using many […]

A Palestinian Miracle at the UN?

By RAMZY BAROUD For 62 years since the foundation of the United Nations’ Security Council, the Palestinians did not manage […]

Alberto Gonzales and Coup Against Democracy

By RAMZY BAROUD The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the […]

Bush’s Real Agenda in Palestine

By RAMZY BAROUD The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan’s corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip […]

Bush’s War Policy: When Time Heals Nothing

By RAMZY BAROUD The news of recent weeks emanating from Washington and Baghdad point to one clear, if not final, […]