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Ramzy Baroud

Articles

US Elections: Just Like the Movies

  • January 11, 2008, 6:56 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/879/in3.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD The United States political process bears an uncanny resemblance to mainstream filmmaking. Elections and speeches are scripted […]

Despite ‘Good News’, Iraq is not Okay

  • January 5, 2008, 6:12 pm
  • http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2008/01/01/43652.html

By RAMZY BAROUD In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless […]

Machiavellian Musharraf

  • December 27, 2007, 6:19 pm
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By RAMZY BAROUD The 42-day drama in Pakistan is far from over; the declaration of emergency and the lifting of […]

Politicising Gaza’s Misery

  • December 19, 2007, 8:06 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/876/reg4.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD Intense debate over Gaza is subsiding as the status quo is delineated — predictably — by those […]

On Romney, Mormonism and Islam

  • December 14, 2007, 4:56 pm
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By RAMZY BAROUD Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech on December 6th – in which he tried to ‘explain’ his […]

The True Aim of Annapolis, and Why It Failed

  • December 10, 2007, 6:28 pm
  • http://www.khaleejtimes.com/ColumnistHomeNew.asp?section=ramzybaroud&col=yes

By RAMZY BAROUD The US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland was neither a success nor failure, if one accepts that […]

Palestine: Demoralisation and Absence

  • November 30, 2007, 10:43 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/873/op12.htm

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

  • November 26, 2007, 5:14 pm
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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

  • November 17, 2007, 3:26 pm
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By RAMZY BAROUD The people of Somalia are enduring yet another round of suffering as Ethiopian forces wreck havoc in […]

Peace and Democracy

  • November 7, 2007, 4:56 pm
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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

  • October 31, 2007, 4:42 pm
  • http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=103029&d=31&m=10&y=2007

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

  • October 23, 2007, 6:42 pm
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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

  • October 19, 2007, 5:07 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/867/re72.htm

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

Burma is Not Iraq

  • October 12, 2007, 8:28 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/866/re202.htm

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

  • October 6, 2007, 4:47 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/865/re4.htm

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

  • October 1, 2007, 8:20 am

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

  • September 20, 2007, 11:35 am
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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

  • September 11, 2007, 5:48 pm
  • 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

  • September 7, 2007, 10:40 pm
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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

  • September 3, 2007, 4:28 pm
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By RAMZY BAROUD As the security check line began moving slowly at Washington Dulles airport, one passenger standing a few […]