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Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle.
He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out'. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter' and ‘The Last Earth'. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).
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Impossible Dialogue: The Choice in Yemen
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 11:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Chances are dim that elections will be held in Yemen next February. Yet without elections, the push for reforms and change that were inspired by the Yemeni revolution would become devoid of any real value. More >>
The Plot Thickens: Gaza Flooded with Sewage and Conspiracies
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 12:37 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The latest punishment of Gaza may seem like another familiar plot to humiliate the strip to the satisfaction of Israel, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, and the military-controlled Egyptian government. But something far more sinister is brewing. More >>
France’s Sham Philosopher: Bernard Henri Levy and Libya
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 4:08 pm | Ramzy Baroud
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “the world’s most influential Jew”, Bernard Henri Levy is number 45, according to an article published in the Israeli rightwing newspaper the Jerusalem Post, on May 21, 2010. More >>
Why A Winning Palestinian Narrative is Hard to Find
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 5:12 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In an initially pointless exercise that lasted nearly an hour, I flipped between two Palestinian television channels, Al Aqsa TV of Hamas in Gaza and Palestine TV of Fatah in the West Bank. While both purported to represent Palestine and the Palestinians, ... More >>
Asking the Wrong Questions: Did Arab Revolutions Fail?
Friday, 8 November 2013, 5:25 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Challenging the falsehoods and simplifications that surrounded the so-called Arab Spring from the very start doesn’t necessarily mean that one is in doubt of the very notion that genuine revolutions have indeed gripped various Arab countries for ... More >>
Israel on the Lookout:Lebanon Haunted by Ghosts of Civil War
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 6:15 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Throughout the years, Lebanon’s demographics have experienced periodic influx. But particularly in the last two years, the demographic shift has been so overwhelming due to the flood of Syrian refugees in desperate need for shelter. More >>
The Sectarian War at Hand: Redrawing the Middle East Again
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 5:18 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet from where I am sitting, but such tranquility hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so-called Arab Spring is long gone, but what remains is a region that is rich ... More >>
South vs. North: Yemen Teeters between Hope and Division
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 6:10 pm | Ramzy Baroud
On Oct 12, tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of Eden in the South of the country, mostly demanding secession from the north. The date is significant, for it marks the 1967 independence of South Yemen, ending several decades of British ... More >>
Giap, Wallace, and the Never-Ending Battle for Freedom
Friday, 11 October 2013, 5:02 pm | Ramzy Baroud
"Nothing is more precious than freedom,” is quoted as being attributed to Vo Nguyen Giap, a Vietnamese General that led his country through two liberation wars. The first was against French colonialists, the second against the Americans. More >>
People’s History of Gaza and Egypt:The Bond Cannot Be Broken
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:15 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Egypt’s new ruler, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, may not realize that the bond between Egypt, Palestine and especially Gaza is beyond historic, and simply cannot be severed with border restrictions, albeit they have caused immense suffering for many Palestinians. More >>
New York Times Fiction: On Obama’s Letter to Rouhani
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 12:50 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Under the title “Through Diplomacy, Obama Finds a Pen Pal in Iran”, Landler wrote of President Barack Obama’s deep “belief in the power of the written word,” and of his “frustrating ... More >>
Syria’s New Game: The Russian Factor
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 5:55 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Many US media commentators were fairly accurate in labeling some of the language used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a New York Times article as "hypocritical". More >>
Tale of Two Cities: Ramallah, Gaza and the Identity Crisis
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 12:45 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The distance between Gaza and Ramallah in sheer miles is hardly significant. But in actuality, both cities represent two different political realities, with inescapable cultural and socioeconomic dimensions. More >>
Abbas’s Village Leagues and Palestinian Silence
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 12:23 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Suppose several armored vehicles belonging to a branch of the Palestinian Authority raided an Israeli border village at the eve of a new round of peace negotiations. One can picture PA President Mahmoud Abbas defending the killings, stating that the ... More >>
The Politics of Death: Human Lives Devalued in Middle East
Monday, 2 September 2013, 9:58 am | Ramzy Baroud
How many Egyptians have been killed since the January 2011 revolt? My pursuit for exact figures has proven to be futile. Various sources suggest all sorts of numbers, some scrambled in such a way as to make a political point. More >>
On Egypt’s Class-Struggle: Rabias of the World Unite
Monday, 26 August 2013, 12:38 pm | Ramzy Baroud
"Lord! You know well that my keen desire is to carry out Your commandments and to serve Thee with all my heart, O light of my eyes. If I were free I would pass the whole day and night in prayers. But what should I do when you have made me a slave ... More >>
The Un-Revolution: Yemen’s Mediocre Transition
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:30 am | Ramzy Baroud
Considering the off-putting reality, one fails to imagine a future scenario in which Yemen could avoid a full-fledged conflict or a civil war. It is true that much could be done to fend off against this bleak scenario such as sincere efforts towards reconciliation ... More >>
The Arab Turmoil: Where Do We Stand?
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 10:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Seasons come and go, yet Arab countries are in ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring’, but even if that ‘spring’ had ever existed in the shape and form that the media portrayed it to be, it never really lasted. It has now morphed ... More >>
Hated in Egypt: How the Palestinian Bogeyman Resurfaced
Friday, 2 August 2013, 4:19 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When I left Gaza for the first time on my own, twenty some years ago, I was warned of a notorious officer who headed Egypt’s State Security Intelligence at the Rafah border. He “hates Palestinians,” I was told. More >>
Netanyahu, Abbas to Resume ‘Peace Process’ that Never Was
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 6:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The political peddlers, think-tank experts and media professionals are all back in full force. They want us to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry has done what others have failed to do. On his sixth trip to the Middle East during his post, ... More >>
