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
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...
‘Los yihadistas consideran a Europa el punto flaco de Occidente’
Entrevista [Gilles Kepel, filósofo y sociólogo arabista frances] El País, 14.12.2015 Álex Vicente
- ¿Cuándo y dónde nació la yihad?
- ¿Cómo ha evolucionado?
- ¿Por qué ataca a Europa?
- ¿Quiénes son los terroristas que matan en nombre del islam?
Muslims Memories of West’s Imperialism
Informe especial Consortiumnews, 04.09.2015 William R. Polk, historiador, escritor y ex profesor sobre el Medio Oriente en HarvardAmerican politicians know little about history, so they lash out at people from formerly colonized Third World nations without understanding the scars that the West’s repression and brutality have left on these societies, especially in the Muslim worldOne result of...