National Council for Human Rights releases report on "Al-Aqrab" prison    Salafi sheikh describes how the soldiers were released    Barakat stars as Ahli crush ENPPI    Haras El-Hodoud reject Ahly's offer for striker Mekki    Former Chelsea boss Benitez to take charge of Napoli    Power cuts instigate protests    3 Egyptian women killed in 'honor' crime    Coach Vieira gives Zamalek ultimatum over unpaid salaries    Egyptian activists to participate in 'March against Monsanto' Saturday    Orascom Telecom closer to delisting after stock tender: Source    Several political parties to protest against discussion of judiciary bill    Leonardo DiCaprio Space Flight Auctioned for $1.5 Million    Interior Minister rewards policemen while Amnesty International criticises ministry    Saudi Arabia confirms another death from SARS-like virus    No deaths reported on US highway bridge collapse    A calm state in Tahrir Square before demonstrations    North Korea says will take 'positive steps' for peace    Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements    Iran denies it has forces in Syria    Egypt's Morsi to Participate in 21st African Union Summit    Obama Seeks End to Perpetual U.S. 'War on Terror'    Egypt Plans to Issue Sukuk in Early 2014    Volatile Nikkei Keeps Asian Stocks on Edge    LEGEND BIRTH: Eric Cantona    Marginalised conscripts under the spotlight    Egypt Forms Female Police Force to Combat Violence – Paper    Polygamy – protecting, not degrading women    Egypt's Morsi to participate in African Union Summit    Egypt Delays Rationing Subsidized Fuel to Build Database    Tsunami warning in Russia's Far East after 8.2 quake    Ultras White Knights leader released on bail    Egypt's Morsi wants arrest of Sinai kidnappers after hostages released    Five drown in sewer in Assiut    Politics with a smile    Cashing in on ‘Islamic' products    Egypt's Pope Tawadros II heads to Vienna    Egyptian firm Maridive signs $150 mn Islamic loan    The beginning not the end    Egypt to boost fuel supply to ease power shortages    Barakat to retire at end of season    Summer fun in the city: Nine things to do around Cairo    Local Roundup: Zamalek and Ghazl El-Mahalla qualify to second round in Egyptian Cup    Egypt''s EFG Hermes says Q1 net profit jumps 27 pct    Arabian racing takes centre stage in Toulouse    ‘I don't like cricket... I love it!'    Coin smugglers foiled at Cairo Airport    PROGRAMME: Four Countries – Four Movies, screening in Cairo    Rare "Harry Potter" first edition fetches record auction price    

Articles of the author Ramzy Baroud
Obama's legacy of broken promises
The Guantanamo Bay prison is a glaring attestation to the state of political indecision the United States has experienced since President Barack Obama's first day in office. While his second term is unlikely to deliver much of the “change” he had so industriously promised, skeletal men continue to (...)

24 - 04 - 2013
A hundred Deir Yassins and counting
Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives of over 100 innocent Palestinians. Attempts at covering up the massacre have been dwarfed by grim details unearthed by (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Four more years of this?
At the precise moment US President Barack Obama's Air Force One touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport on 20 March, persisting illusions quickly began to shatter. And as he walked on the red carpet, showered with accolades and warm embraces of top Israeli government and military officials, a new/old (...)

27 - 03 - 2013
Rachel Corrie's legacy
“Hi Papa... Don't worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don't feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer lately,” Rachel Corrie wrote to her father, Craig, from Rafah, a town located at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. “Rachel's (...)

20 - 03 - 2013
Turkey steps back
An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment in the 1990s, the revamped relationship is likely to be more guarded and will pose a greater challenge to Turkey rather than to Israel. Israeli media referenced a report by Turkish (...)

27 - 02 - 2013
A decade after invasion
Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign “Operation Desert Fox” devastated parts of Iraq in December 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. I was disappointed with the fact that our busy schedule in Iraq — mostly visiting hospitals packed with (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Opportunities in Mali war
The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognised as the world's biggest security firm, the group's brand plummeted during the London Olympics last year due to its failure to satisfy conditions of a government contract. But with (...)

30 - 01 - 2013
Discourse of the Arabe Spring
A reductionist discourse is one that selectively tailors its reading of subject matters in such a way as to only yield desired outcomes, leaving little or no room for other inquiries, no matter how appropriate or relevant. The so-called “Arab Spring”, although now far removed from its initial (...)

22 - 01 - 2013
The Palestinian prisoners' Intifada
If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might cease their enthusiastic declarations to world media about yet another scheduled meeting or another. At this point, few Palestinians have hope that their “leadership” has their best (...)

16 - 01 - 2013
Nakba revisited, 2012
It must have been 2007, although I cannot remember the exact date. I do recall getting lost in what seemed like a futile search for the headquarters of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome. There was a meeting of NGOs and some General Assembly body, consisting of several UN (...)

25 - 12 - 2012
Palestine's new status
Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Thursday, 29 November 2012. The draft of the UN resolution beckoning what many perceive as a historic moment passed with an overwhelming majority of General Assembly members: 138 votes in favour, nine against and 41 (...)

05 - 12 - 2012
Paying lip service to peace
Europe is different, we are often reminded. The general wisdom is that unlike the United States' unconditional support for Israel, European countries tend to be more balanced in their approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Their politicians are less receptive to being bought and sold by (...)

17 - 11 - 2012
The trapped empire
The rise and fall of empires can span decades, if not longer. All indications remain that US decline is inexorable, not least because of its policy in the Arab region, writes Ramzy Baroud Editors representing many Asian newspapers stood in a perfect line. They were nervous and giddy at the prospect (...)

04 - 10 - 2012
Arrigoni's murder trial in Gaza
On 4 September, the trial of those accused in the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni is due to conclude. Much more than justice for one great man is at stake, writes Ramzy Baroud There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon as he (...)

30 - 08 - 2012
The political value of murdering Egyptians
The media has been fast to blame Gaza for the Sinai terrorist attack -- so fast it suggests an ulterior agenda, writes Ramzy Baroud Two Land Cruisers filled with about 35 well-built gunmen in ski masks and all-black outfits appear seemingly out of nowhere. Behind them is vast, open desert. They (...)

16 - 08 - 2012
Democracy and slaughter in Burma
While Western corporations are lining up leach Burma's natural resources, the "promise" of democracy now at hand, no one is talking about the genocidal violence the country's Muslim Rohingyas are facing, writes Ramzy Baroud The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma (or Myanmar) have (...)

19 - 07 - 2012
Time to talk Camp David
It is not the rise of political Islam in Egypt that suggests a coming conflict with Israel, but rather the desire of Egyptians to embrace their dignity and to decide their own futures, writes Ramzy Baroud Despite early assurances by Egypt's new president, Mohamed Mursi, regarding his "commitment to (...)

12 - 07 - 2012
Post-Arab Spring Palestine
The Arab Spring did much to return sovereignty into the hands of the Arabs. But how that will impact the Palestinians remains to be seen, writes Ramzy Baroud Will the Arab Spring serve the cause of Palestine? This is a question that has been repeatedly asked, in various ways, over the last year and (...)

05 - 07 - 2012
Don't neglect Lebanon's Palestinian refugees
The brewing crisis hovering over Lebanon's Palestinian community, subject since decades to systematic discrimination, could explode if ignored, writes Ramzy Baroud When the news reported that Lebanese security killed 18-year-old Ahmed Al-Qasim in the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp on 15 June, over a (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
State of siege, state of normalcy
The Gaza siege is still strangling a captive population to near death, but Western powers and Western media only focus on Hamas and its apparent obstinacy, writes Ramzy Baroud On 14 June 2012, 50 international organisations marked the fifth anniversary of the Israeli siege on Gaza by calling on (...)

21 - 06 - 2012
Free Mahmoud Sarsak
Along with everything else Palestinian, Israel wages war on football, its latest target being Mahmoud Sarsak, writes Ramzy Baroud On 3 June, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 76 days of a gruelling hunger strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that (...)

07 - 06 - 2012
Starving and broke: Yemen
Wracked by internal strife, Yemen is on the edge of collapse while US meddling isn't helping, writes Ramzy Baroud Yemeni forces continue to push against Islamic fighters affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abed Rabbu Mansour Al-Hadi, who is now (...)

31 - 05 - 2012
Redefining the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring epithet ought not to obscure the importance of local circumstances, writes Ramzy Baroud The age of revolutionary romance is over. Various Arab countries are now facing hard truths. Millions of Arabs merely want to live with a semblance of dignity, free from tyranny and continuous (...)

24 - 05 - 2012
The resolve of memory
The Palestinian Nakba of 1948 was not an isolated event; it is ongoing today, and so no Palestinian forgets, writes Ramzy Baroud* Many Palestinians remember and reference the Nakba -- also known as the Catastrophe -- on 15 May every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
Israel plots an endgame
The ongoing illegal settlements bonanza shows that Israel has reverted to its ambitious plans of 1967 to completely colonise all of Palestine, says Ramzy Baroud* Israel's colonisation policies are entering an alarming new phase, comparable in historic magnitude to the original plans to colonise (...)

03 - 05 - 2012
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