Archive for April 2010
UAE’s situation with branded education
By Aysha Taryam Editor-in-Chief: The Gulf Today Education has always been an essential building block in the construction of the United Arab Emirates. The UAE’s founding father, His Highness the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, made educating his people his main priority and even encouraged all women to empower themselves by seeking education. [...]
L’impossible stratégie palestinienne du martyre
Victimisation et attentat suicide
par Lætitia Bucaille*
Les attentats suicides qui frappent les civils israéliens au hasard suscitent à la fois l’indignation et l’incompréhension des Occidentaux. Considéré comme un moyen fondamentalement illégitime de lutte politique, cet acte de terreur est également dénoncé par des personnalités politiques, religieuses1 et par certains intellectuels palestiniens. Au-delà de la condamnation morale, [...]
Bad Faith in the Holy City
How Israel’s Jerusalem Policy Imperils the Peace Process
Rashid Khalidi
Foreign Affairs April 15, 2010
RASHID KHALIDI is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of Sowing Crisis: The Cold War & American Dominance in the Middle East.
The Israeli government’s announcement in March that it would further expand [...]
Indian Muslims and Palestinian Awqaf
Omar Khalidi
the Jerusalem Quarterly – Winter 2009/10,40
At the dawn of the twentieth century, British India contained more Muslims than the collapsing Ottoman Empire. The Indian Muslim elite—of which many claimed descent from various Arab, Iranian and Turkish ethnicities—were always conscious of their membership in trans-Indian, pan-Islamic world- the ‘ummah’ beyond [...]
A Palestinian State in Two Years:
Interview with Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister
Khalid Farraj, Camille Mansour, and Salim Tamari
Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 39, no. 1 (Autumn 2010), p. 58
Interviews
Salam Fayyad was appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) on a “national emergency” basis following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, [...]
Lashkar-I-Taiba: The Fallacy of Subservient Proxies and the Future of Islamist Terrorism in India
Authored by Dr. Ryan Clarke.
Brief Synopsis
A discussion of the foundation of Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT), the development of its modus operandi, and engages in an investigation of LeT’s activities in India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir region are discussed. Further, LeT’s fundraising methods are touched upon, and LeT’s relationships with regional state and nonstate [...]
Thinking about Nuclear Power in Post-Saddam Iraq
Authored by Dr. Norman Cigar.
Brief Synopsis
Iraqis are debating the desirability of atomic power for their country. One can expect increasing Iraqi calls for a revival of the country’s nuclear capability, at least in the civilian sector, which reflects a general consensus within key sectors of Iraqi public opinion as well as [...]
