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Articles of the author Rasha Saad
Spreading Spring
As 2013 begins, Arab pundits reflect on yet another year of Arab Spring. While many Arab pundits believe that the Arab Spring is not yet over and that other Arab countries will jump on the wagon in 2013, others believe the Arab Spring has not yet started. Talal Salman, an advocate of the latter (...)

02 - 01 - 2013
Arab press: Aleppo is Al-Assad's real test
Rasha Saad discovers that the biggest battle in Syria might not be in its capital The Syrian issue and the final battle before the fall of Al-Assad's regime continue to be the focus of the pundits this week. In the London-based Al-Hayat, Ghassan Charbel focused on the disastrous impact of Bashar (...)

09 - 08 - 2012
Succession in Syria
Rasha Saad says the race has begun over who will take Al-Assad's place In his daily column in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, Jihad Al-Khazen wrote that during a meeting with former Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman, he told Al-Khazen that he suspected that Gamal Mubarak, the eldest son of deposed (...)

02 - 08 - 2012
Syrian ship sinking
Rasha Saad sees Damascus entering a whole new situation Last week's bombing of the Syrian National Council building is the beginning of the end of the Syrian regime, pundits believe. However, there are conflicting reports over the perpetrators of the explosion which led to the killing of Defence (...)

25 - 07 - 2012
Syria on the slide
Rasha Saad pinpoints the start of the eventual fall of Damascus In the London-based daily Al-Hayat, George Semaan wrote that heated international action to lead the Syrian crisis outside the circle of violence reveals that time is running out and that waiting is no longer an option. In an article (...)

14 - 06 - 2012
From another world
Rasha Saad sees Al-Assad's speech only hardened local and international resistance The Syrian predicament continues to capture the focus of pundits. For many, the near future carries no political solution in Syria but a continuation of the bloodshed and a looming civil war. Pundits cited Syrian (...)

07 - 06 - 2012
Tunisia's Islamist surprise
Rasha Saad explores the unprecedented victory of a party whose birthplace triggered the Arab Spring The landslide victory by the Islamist party Al-Nahda in the Tunisian Constituent Assembly elections was the focus of pundits this week. Al-Nahda took the world by surprise as it captured 41.47 per (...)

03 - 11 - 2011
What an end!
Rasha Saad collects opinions on Gaddafi's astonishing demise The bloody killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and its implication on the future of Libya was the focus of pundits this week. In the London-based daily Al-Hayat, George Samaan wrote that Gaddafi "failed to change his miserable (...)

27 - 10 - 2011
Arab press: If it's true
Rasha Saad notes that not everyone believes there was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US The US administration's revelation of an Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador to Washington Adel Al-Jubair, if verified, is likely to put more international pressure on the (...)

20 - 10 - 2011
Arab Press: King of rights
Rasha Saad spotlights the kingdom's decision which improves the political situation of its women Pundits focussed this week on Saudi King Abdullah's decision that women join the Shura Council and run for office in local municipal elections. While writers said the announcement was an important and (...)

06 - 10 - 2011
Arab press: The biggest loser
Rasha Saad reviews 9/11 a decade later Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, pundits pondered over what is left of it and announced the winners and losers. In the London-based daily Al-Hayat, Jihad Al-Khazen pronounced both Al-Qaeda and the US as losers of the war on terrorism. Citing examples of (...)

15 - 09 - 2011
Arab press: He's not Muslim
Rasha Saad scans reactions after the man who went on a shooting rampage in Norway was found not to be an Islamist terrorist The link between the recent massacres in Norway and Islamophobia was the focus of the pundits this week. In the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat, Ibrahim Kaalin, professor of (...)

04 - 08 - 2011
Arab Press: Matters the most
Rasha Saad assesses why the army is still the country's best bet The return of Egyptian revolutionaries to Tahrir Square was the focus of pundits this week. In the London-based, pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat George Semaan wrote that unless the revolution's youth in the square recognise that change is (...)

21 - 07 - 2011
Arab Press: Silent on Syria
Rasha Saad uncovers a bigger, regional stain Pundits questioned the reasons behind what they described as Arab silence on the massacres being committed against Syrians by their regime. Jameel Theyabi wrote that in Syria, the fragile government is banning media outlets, selling illusions and killing (...)

16 - 06 - 2011
Women behind the wheel
Rasha Saad tries to predict when Saudi women will start driving The right of Saudi women to drive in their country was the focus of the pundits who believe it is a matter of time before women in the kingdom will be allowed to drive. Though the matter has been debated for nearly a decade, fierce (...)

09 - 06 - 2011
Beautifully barren
Rasha Saad underlines Obama's fine but empty words US President Barack Obama's speech addressing the Middle East was, according to many, eloquent yet void of content. In the London-based daily Al-Hayat, Mustafa Zein wrote that in his speech the US president "launched his electoral campaign for the (...)

26 - 05 - 2011
Arabic Press: Until the end of time
Rasha Saad relates the anniversary Palestinians commemorate with loathe Pundits focussed on Sunday's anniversary of Nakba when more than 600,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes and lands in 1948. In its editorial, the UAE newspaper Al-Bayan wrote that scenes of thousands of Arabs in (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
Making the most of it
Rasha Saad unveils Iran's attempts at stoking even more the Gulf uprisings Pundits focussed this week on developments in the Shia uprising in Bahrain. In the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Abdel-Bari Atwan focussed on the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Bahrain. In 'Bahrain -- between (...)

21 - 04 - 2011
Egypt is not Iran
Far from bringing comfort to the Iranian leadership, Egypt's revolution is inspiring Iran's democratic opposition, writes Rasha Saad Popular and political forces in Egypt vehemently criticised statements made by Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei last week that described the Egyptian uprising as (...)

10 - 02 - 2011
Testing the waters
The passage of two Iranian naval ships through the Suez Canal is being seen as Tehran's attempt to sound out the new post-Mubarak Egypt, writes Rasha Saad No sooner did Israel sigh in relief as Egypt's newly empowered military government said it would honour all international treaties, including (...)

24 - 01 - 2011
Tit for tat
Rasha Saad reports on Iran's daring cross-border raid into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish insurgents As Iran battles its way to escape international isolation as a result of its nuclear activities, domestic unrest reigns high in the western part of the country. Iranian forces have killed a group they (...)

30 - 09 - 2010
Egyptian Press: Right and left
Egypt's government officials came under fire from pundits for all sorts of reasons while the upcoming direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis were not spared similar attacks. Rasha Saad and Mohamed El-Sayed witnessed the gunfire A spate of accumulated problems afflicting the country the past (...)

02 - 09 - 2010
Gulf tension rises
According to Tehran, the UAE's implementation of sanctions on Iran goes beyond what the UN has authorised, writes Rasha Saad The diplomatic row created as a result of press reports quoting the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Washington as supporting the use of military force against (...)

15 - 07 - 2010
Iran embargoed
Despite new UN and US sanctions, Tehran is showing no signs of abandoning its nuclear programme, writes Rasha Saad Days after the US passed new unilateral sanctions against Tehran that target its fuel imports, Iranian officials accused the UK, Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of refusing (...)

08 - 07 - 2010
Talking is better than bombing
Rasha Saad sees how Iran's nuclear accord with Brazil and Turkey can prevent conflict elsewhere Iran's recent nuclear deal struck with Brazil and Turkey was the focus this week. In the London-based daily Al-Hayat Patrick Seale wrote that the deal reached in Tehran last week could largely defuse the (...)

27 - 05 - 2010
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