Reportaje El País, 31.032018 Juan Carlos Sanz, corresponsal en Oriente PróximoJudía laica, ultraortodoxa, árabe y cristiana, Jerusalén no es sino sucesivas ciudades y, lo que es peor, enfrentadas. El fascinante curso de su historia y su cultura contrasta con su cruel devenir en manos de la política, la violencia y la desesperanza. La decisión de Donald Tramp...
Gulf Arabs and East Asians
Discurso Arab Gulf States Institute-Washington, 28.02.2018 Chas W. Freeman, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (WIIPA-Brown University)In July 751, Tang Dynasty troops led by the famous Korean general Gao Xianzhi [高仙芝] suffered a decisive defeat by an Abbasid army in the battle of Talas River [معركة نهر طلاس ]. Most of the combatants on both sides were Turks...
How Can the Arab World Avoid the Abyss?
Columna Project-Syndicate, 30.11.2017 Nabil Fahmy, embajador (r), ex ministro de RREE egipcio y profesor (American University-El Cairo)The Middle East owes many of its current problems to a long history of foreign invasions, from the Crusades and European colonialism to the proxy wars of the Cold-War era. But Arab leaders who genuinely want to create a brighter future...
How Syria’s Victory Reshapes Mideast
Columna Consortiumnews, 30.09.2017 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico destacado en inteligencia y diplomacia europea y fundador de Conflicts Forum
The failure of the U.S.-Israeli-Saudi “regime change” project in Syria changes the future of the Mideast, possibly ushering in an era of greater secularism and tolerance
Plainly, Syria’s success – notwithstanding the caution of President Bashar al-Assad in saying that...Reconfiguring the entire Arab world into smaller and weaker sectarian states
Carta OpinionGlobal, 04.06.2017 Riad Saade, ingeniero agrónomo libanés, empresario y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutThe fate of the Christian Communities attesting the presence of Christianity in its Middle East birthplace, is almost never considered when analyzing its 20th century history and its latest 21st century dramatic wars. It is as if this issue does not figure on the...
Omán: un país y un islam diferente
Columna El Deber, 23.04.2017 Agustín Saavedra Weise, economista y politólogo boliviano, ex ministro de RREEEl islam tiene tres ramas principales: suní (alrededor del 90% de todos los musulmanes), Shia (alrededor del 9%) e ibadí (0,2%). El sultanato de Omán -en el extremo sur de la península arábiga- tiene la única población ibadí en el mundo que es...
Árabes asfixiados
Columna El País, 19.03.2017 Moisés Naím
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En tres años será necesario crear 60 millones de empleos para los jóvenes de la región que llegan a la edad de trabajar
Cientas de mujeres y niños convocaron una protesta en tienda de campaña delante de la sede de la... The Geopolitics of the Palestinians
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 15.05.2011Analysis Dealing with the geopolitics of a nation without a clearly defined geography is difficult. The within which Palestinians currently live is not the area they claim as their own, nor are their current boundaries recognized as legitimate by others. The Palestinians do not have a state that fully controls the territory in...
Au Yémen, un impossible cessez-le-feu
Repoportaje Le Monde, 11.04.2016 Louis Imbert, periodista[caption id="attachment_25412" align="alignnone" width="834"]
A Sanaa, capitale du Yémen, le 9 avril. KHALED ABDULLAH / REUTERS[/caption]
Il aura fallu quelques heures à peine pour que le cessez-le-feu, décrété dimanche 10 avril à minuit au Yémen,... End Times for the Caliphate?
Artículo London Review of Books, Vol.38 (5) 2016 Patrick Cockburn, periodista y escritorThe war in Syria and Iraq has produced two new de facto states in the last five years and enabled a third quasi-state greatly to expand its territory and power. The two new states, though unrecognised internationally, are stronger militarily and politically than most members of...