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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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Leaks and Pseudo-Reality: The US Search for World Domination
Friday, 19 July 2013, 1:42 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a Hollywood account of how US SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011. More >>
ElBaradei’s Democracy:How Egypt’s Revolution Betrayed Itself
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:45 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution,” wrote Eric Walberg, a Middle East political expert and author, shortly after the Egyptian military overthrew the country’s democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi on July 3. More >>
Hamas, Fatah & Squandered Years: When ‘Unity’ Loses Meaning
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
When Hamas and Fatah representatives met in Gaza on June 04, there was little media fanfare. In fact, neither party expected much attention to their ‘unity talks’ aside from the occasional references to ‘national reconciliation’, ‘building ... More >>
From Tahrir to Taksim: West Reserves Right to Interfere
Friday, 28 June 2013, 1:03 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The distance between Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Istanbul’s Taksim Square is impossibly long. There can be no roadmap sufficient enough to use the popular experience of the first in order to explicate the circumstances that lead to the other. More >>
Khadamas for Sale: Child Exploitation Bonanza
Friday, 21 June 2013, 3:01 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Last night at the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walked in aiming for the westernized café that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seemed distant as she pressed buttons on her smart phone. The father looked tired as he ... More >>
Sectarianism and Irrational Discourse: Why Arabs Must Worry
Thursday, 13 June 2013, 12:38 pm | Ramzy Baroud
My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast about the contributions of Arab Christians to Middle Eastern cultures. Of course, he is right. More >>
Rohingya Population Control: Onslaught in Burma Continues
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 5:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
On April 21, the BBC obtained disturbing video footage shot in Burma. It confirmed extreme reports of what has been taking place in that country, even as it is being touted by the US and European governments as a success story pertaining to political ... More >>
No More Tunnels Please: Gaza Held Hostage to Egypt’s Turmoil
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 5:48 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Air of uncertainty is engulfing most matters related to Egypt. Since the Egyptian revolt started over two years ago, the country remains hostage to a barefaced power struggle with many destructive implications that have polarized society in unprecedented ... More >>
US Political Impotence in the Middle East
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:26 am | Ramzy Baroud
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States ... More >>
Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 12:52 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated ... More >>
The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 10:59 am | Ramzy Baroud
As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him. His face, wrinkled before its time, was a picture of utter anguish. More >>
Boston, Brazil and Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars
Friday, 3 May 2013, 4:47 pm | Ramzy Baroud
During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author Parag Khanna addressed the rising challenges facing the US's global hegemony. According to Khanna, China and the European Union are the new contenders with the battlefield ... More >>
Turkey’s Unsustainable Politics in the Middle East
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 11:04 am | Ramzy Baroud
‘Confused’ may be an appropriate term to describe Turkey’s current foreign policy in the Middle East and Israel in particular. The source of that confusion - aside from the appalling violence in Syria and earlier in Libya – is Turkey’s ... More >>
Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation: Hypocritical EU
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 6:18 pm | Ramzy Baroud
More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. Indeed, good news is seldom associated with Israel and its military occupation and institutionalized discrimination and mistreatment of Palestinians. But now even those international organizations that ... More >>
Turkey’s Difficult Choice in Palestine, Israel
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 5:32 pm | Ramzy Baroud
An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment of the1990’s, the revamped relationship is likely to be more guarded and will pose a greater challenge to Turkey rather than to Israel. More >>
Photographing Tragedy: What Victims Actually Want
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 5:22 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When one looks at scenes of fleeing refugees from Syria via images of their squalid refugee camps and hears their pleas for solidarity, mercy or for God’s help to end their suffering, one finds eerie similarities between their experiences and those ... More >>
Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion
Thursday, 14 February 2013, 4:31 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. More >>
Paving the Road for a New Status Quo
Saturday, 9 February 2013, 10:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the US administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state late last year is on its way to becoming yet another footnote in protracted ... More >>
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada
Monday, 28 January 2013, 12:09 pm | Ramzy Baroud
If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might cease their enthusiastic declarations to world media about yet another scheduled meeting or another. More >>
The Impossible Discourse of the ‘Arab Spring’
Thursday, 24 January 2013, 11:46 am | Ramzy Baroud
A reductionist discourse is one that selectively tailors its reading of subject matters in such a way as to only yield desired outcomes, leaving little or no room for other inquiries, no matter how appropriate or relevant. The so-called Arab Spring, although ... More >>
