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Transforming Cities in the Middle East

Dr. Hussam Salama is a research fellow at the Dubai Initiative and an architect and urban planner. His research focuses on urban development in the Middle East during the era of globalization. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation.

By Winston Gee  |  April 9, 2011
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Web Perspectives, Middle East
What Makes a Revolution?

As the recent movements in Tunisia and Egypt unfolded, two questions pressed upon the public mind: why were these revolutions happening, and what might be to come? So too it was in 1979, when the Shah of Iran was overthrown. While these three revolutions are in many ways very different, by considering them together five common factors emerge.

By Abolhassan Banisadr  |  April 6, 2011
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Considering Kurdistan

MICHAEL S. BERNSTAM is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has served as an economic advisor to the Russian government, the Azerbaijani government, and the Iraqi Ministry of Finance. He is currently affiliated with the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform.

By Michael S. Bernstam  |  March 6, 2011
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Global Notebook, Middle East
A Costly Diagnosis

Land disputes can hardly be called a novelty in the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, where Israel and Palestine have both made religious and cultural claims. While the Gaza Strip and West Bank areas have long witnessed the political ramifications of arms conflict, government controls, and economic sanctions, there is another deeper, though less tangible implication of these developments:  the Israeli occupation has taken a costly toll on the mental health of the Palestinian population.

By Divya Seth  |  March 6, 2011
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A Costly Diagnosis

Land disputes can hardly be called a novelty in the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, where Israel and Palestine have both made religious and cultural claims. While the Gaza Strip and West Bank areas have long witnessed the political ramifications of arms conflict, government controls, and economic sanctions, there is another deeper, though less tangible implication of these developments:  the Israeli occupation has taken a costly toll on the mental health of the Palestinian population.

By Divya Seth  |  March 6, 2011
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Human Rights Violations in Iran Must Cease

Author bio: Sam Sasan Shoamanesh is a legal adviser at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief magazine. He served as the ICC’s first delegate to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The views expressed in this article have been provided in the author’s personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ICC, ECHR or Global Brief.

By Sam Shoamanesh, Trita Parsi  |  February 23, 2011
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Web Features, Middle East
Turkey’s Membership in the EU: Realistic or Merely Wishful?

Professor Bahri Yilmaz is the owner of the Jean Monnet Chair at Sabancı University in Istanbul. He was a visiting fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge and at the Center for European Studies  Harvard University. In addition to his academic experience, he has worked as the Chief Advisor to the Ministry of State for European Union Affairs in Ankara (1997-2002). His main fields of research and teaching interest focuses on European Union, International Political Economy, the newly emerging markets, and globalization.


By Bahri Yilmaz  |  January 6, 2011
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Turkey and the Identity of Europe

Constantine Arvanitopoulos is the Professor of International Relations at Panteion University, Athens, Greece. His research interests lie with International Relations theory, specifically the study of regime change, European Politics and US Foreign Policy Analysis. He has taught courses on theory and methodology of International Relations, European Politics, and Comparative Politics. 

By Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Dimitris Keridis  |  January 6, 2011
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Web Features, Europe, Middle East
Islam: A Scapegoat for Europe’s Decadence

Raphaël Liogier is the director of the Observatoire du religieux (www.world-religion-watch.org) and a University Professor in Sociology and Theory of Knowledge at the Institute for Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence in France (Science Po Aix). His last book, Souci de Soi, Conscience du Monde : Self Care, World Awareness, deals with the different aspects of the current individualization and globalization of beliefs.

By Raphaël Liogier  |  January 6, 2011
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Saudi Arabia and Desalination

 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which already produces 24 million cubic meters of water per day from desalination, about half the world’s total, is building the largest solar-powered water desalination plant in the world in the city of Al-Khafji on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The recent initiative in Saudi Arabia to enlarge its water desalination capacity using high-tech green technology is a smart move, multi-dimensionally strategic and future-oriented. 

By Erika Lee  |  December 23, 2010
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