There is no doubt that the Tunisian uprising was the spark that ignited the Egyptian revolution leading to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The success of the Tunisians in removing Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali sent a strong message across the (...)
CAIRO: In 1989, the prominent Orientalist Bernard Lewis argued that the Arab world was disintegrating into fragmented ethnic and sectarian enclaves, dissipating any sense of collective solidarity and identity. Looking at the Arab world today, from (...)
Tension between the national resistance in Iraq and Al-Qaeda mounts as the latter makes a bid for power monopoly, writes Lamis Andoni*
Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq has signalled the beginning of an offensive that sets it apart from Iraqi (...)
Even if Fatah were to bring down the Hamas government, the chains of past agreements with Israel bind and strangle the Palestinians, writes Lamis Andoni
The Hamas government is faced with unprecedented internal and international pressure to (...)
Israel's war on Lebanon has exposed once and for all that its security will be bought even at the cost of war crimes and mass destruction. This immoral situation must come to an end, writes Lamis Andoni
Once again Israel wreaks havoc and destruction (...)
The Palestinian leadership is being forced to come to grips with political reform and corruption, writes Lamis Andoni
A continued drama of internal bickering, power struggles -- both real and staged reconciliation -- and grassroots resistance, the (...)
After weeks of internal political turmoil, Palestinians have been struggling to arrive at a consensus regarding a plan of action based on conducting municipal, presidential and parliamentary elections, writes Lamis Andoni
Elections, many (...)
The call for Palestinian reform is all well and good, but how deep run the roots of corruption, asks Lamis Andoni
These days you can barely watch a satellite station without finding a Palestinian official, activist or pundit condemning corruption, (...)
The Palestinian people are caught between the US and Israeli pressure to create a malleable leadership on the one hand, and Arafat's own fear of losing power on the other, writes Lamis Andoni
Is it the beginning of a genuine reform movement, or a (...)
The world now acknowledges that the Palestinians have the moral and legal upper hand, writes Lamis Andoni
The landmark victory for the Palestinians at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has dramatically altered the dynamics of the (...)
Jordan reluctantly takes up a role in the West Bank which evokes grim reminders of its difficult pre-1967 relationship with the Palestinians, writes Lamis Andoni
Pressure from the United States and Israel for Jordan to assume a security role in the (...)
Continuing her series on US war hawks, Lamis Andoni traces the history of Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad, the American special envoy "to free Iraqis", is perhaps the highest ranking Muslim official in the history of the US. But the Afghan-born (...)
Lamis Andoni, in the first of a series on America's war hawks, looks at the views of the man who coined the phrase "clash of civilisations"
"Bernard Lewis has brilliantly placed the relationships and the issues of the Middle East into their larger (...)
An FBI probe and strained relations -- Lamis Andoni traces the roots of the anti-Saudi campaign in the US
It all started when a joint congressional committee investigating the 9/11 attacks came across a mention in an FBI (Federal Bureau of (...)
Lamis Andoni on the campaign at home to prepare for America's war on Iraq
Although the world may be awaiting the report on the status of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by the UN inspection team, believing that the Gulf country's destiny is (...)
Occupation continues, with increasing violence. Lamis Andoni and Sandy Tolan learn the true definition of excessive force -- and find that, despite its horrifying toll, it has not crushed the Palestinians' will to resist
Held up to the light, the (...)