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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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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 >>
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada
Friday, 18 January 2013, 8:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada By 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 ... More >>
History of the People: Articulating ‘Palestine’
Friday, 11 January 2013, 10:01 am | Ramzy Baroud
History of the People: Articulating ‘Palestine’ Despite Israeli Hasbara By Ramzy Baroud What does a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West Bank hills, a prisoner on hunger strike in an Israeli jail and ... More >>
The Imagined, ‘Sinister’ Iranian Threat in Latin America
Friday, 4 January 2013, 1:02 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by US President Barack Obama would instill fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans. Apparently, barbarians coming from distant lands are at work. They are gathering at the US-Mexico border, ... More >>
Nakba Revisited: Tragedy of Syria’s Palestinians
Friday, 28 December 2012, 11:48 am | Ramzy Baroud
Nakba Revisited: Tragedy of Syria’s Palestinians and Centrality of Right of Return By Ramzy Baroud It must have been 2007, although I cannot remember the exact date. I do recall getting lost in what seemed like a futile search for the headquarters ... More >>
Mali: West Africa’s Gate to Convenient Chaos, Intervention
Monday, 24 December 2012, 2:40 pm | Ramzy Baroud
France is insisting on ‘rapid’ military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the troubled West African nation - although it claims that the drones are seeking the whereabouts of six French hostages believed ... More >>
Palestine’s New Status: A History Rerun or a New Strategy
Friday, 7 December 2012, 12:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Thursday November 29, 2012.The draft of the UN resolution beckoning what many perceive as a historic moment passed with an overwhelming majority of General Assembly members: ... More >>
A Different War in Gaza, and the War Ahead
Monday, 3 December 2012, 1:51 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigor in quelling the latest Israeli war despite years of a bloody siege ... More >>
Netanyahu’s High-stakes Game in Gaza: Same Time, Same Place
Monday, 26 November 2012, 12:48 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Many key phrases have been presented to explain Israel’s latest military onslaught against Gaza, which left scores dead and wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is flexing his muscles in preparation for the Israeli general elections ... More >>
