On Saturday, December 18, 2010 a large group gathered in Sidi Bouzid, a small town in the Tunisian heartland, to demonstrate against a corrupt, ossified government and express solidarity with Mohammad Bouazizi, a young fruit seller whose (...)
The death of Muammar Gaddafi calls for a reappraisal of U.S. president Barack Obama's foreign policy. Despite many missteps—the fecklessness of his troop “surge” in Afghanistan, his failure to halt the expansion of Israeli settlements in the (...)
To maintain their power, authoritarian governments monopolize force and information. The fear maintained by violence reinforces rigid ideologies and discourages independent thinking while control of information prevents open debate and the promotion (...)
WASHINGTON: The Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations has provoked sharp debate in the occupied territories, elsewhere in the Middle East, throughout Europe and in the United States. The American Task Force for Palestine (ATFP) is one of (...)
As the Palestinian leadership travels to New York to request membership in the United Nations on September 23, the familiar outlines of a future negotiated peace deal have been endlessly debated by op-eds writers, regional experts and government (...)
WASHINGTON: Six Palestinian economic and political leaders met on Thursday at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC to discuss the Palestinian effort to gain recognition and membership at the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. (...)
WASHINGTON: As Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) attempts to rebuild the country and maintain its fractious coalition, Dartmouth University professor and noted Libya expert Dirk Vadewalle discussed the NTC's strategy and challenges at (...)
WASHINGTON: A Youtube video surfaced on Tuesday showing an attack last week on U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford by supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The video shows Ford observing a protest at the Syrian bar association in (...)
WASHINGTON: United States officials have asked senior members of Libya's Transitional National Council (NTC) to review the case of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence agent convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over (...)