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Sharmine Narwani is a writer and political analyst covering the Middle East. She has a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in both journalism and Mideast studies. She is a columnist at Alakhbar English. You can follow her on twitter @snarwani.and Room for Debate.
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Mideast Backlashes Yet to Come
After decades of oppression and marginalization by pro-West, secular dictatorships, the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) and similar Islamist parties have catapulted to power and prominence in several states.
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Chemical Weapons Charade in Syria
“The chain of custody is not clear.” That is the single most important phrase in this whole exercise
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Shipping Death and Destruction to Syria
So what’s stopping regional and international players from slapping a total arms embargo on Syria to prevent more death and destruction
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BRICS Summit draws clear red lines on Syria, Iran
Intent on filling a leadership void in global economic and financial affairs, the BRICS also began to draw some firm political lines in the sand
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Sharmine Narwani : What the Syrian death tolls really tell us
Unreliable data can incite and escalate a conflict – the latest UN-sponsored figure of 60,000 should not be reported as fact
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Russia and China: Arms around the Middle East
Russia and China have drawn a great deal of censure this past year for resisting UN Security Council resolutions to intervene in the domestic affairs of Syria and Iran
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Lebanon’s Red Lines, Bared
What a difference a week can make in the Middle East. -- Sharmine Narwani
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Debate on Syria: Chemical Weapons, Foreign Intervention, Regime Change and More…
How is the rhetoric of the West affecting the conflict in Syria? Is it an information war and if it is an endgame for Bashar al-Assad, what will replace his regime
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Syrian General Manaf Tlass: Neither Here Nor There
Tlass apparently felt snubbed by the president for not being promoted to Major General from his current status as Brigadier General, but importantly, is viewed within the army as a token regime appointment rather
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Going Rogue: America’s Unconventional Warfare in the Mideast
The most nefarious aspect of UW – aside from the obvious violations of international law pertaining to sovereignty, territorial integrity and loss of human life/property, etc – is the proactive and aggressive effort to
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Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist
Shed the old language rapidly. None of it was real anyway – it was just the parlance of that particular “game.”
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Crunch Time in Syria: The UN Protocol’s Jihadist “Loophole”
It is crunch time in Syria. Allow the jihadist battle to take flight there, and there is no telling how far and wide this fight will spread. The Annan Plan is the “only game
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Who’s Afraid of the UN Observer Mission in Syria?
There is a lot of noise coming out of different quarters about the “imminent collapse” of the UN observer mission in Syria. “Dead on arrival,” says one American commentator. “Failure to uphold truce,” accused
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Western Journalist: Visa Denied
It is clearly time to challenge the dated concept that mainstream western media is impartial, objective or professional in their coverage of Mideast affairs
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Surprise Video Changes Syria “Timeline”
Al Jazeera’s Shaping of the Syrian Story. Unless we trace this back to the beginning, any step forward will be proceeding deaf, dumb and blind in Syria
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