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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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What Palestinian Unity Is All About - The Real Task Ahead
Wednesday, 11 June 2014, 2:33 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians are yet to achieve national unity despite the elation over the ‘national unity government’ now in operation in Ramallah. One has to be clear in the distinction between a Hamas-Fatah political arrangement necessitated by regional and international ... More >>
Reporting the Middle East: Please Go Back to the Streets
Thursday, 5 June 2014, 4:44 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Irrespective of how one feels about the direction taken by various Arab revolutions in the last three years, a few facts remain incontestable. Arab revolts began in the streets of poor, despairing Arab cities, and Arabs had every right to rebel considering ... More >>
Haftar Leads Coup: A General’s Odd War on Muslim Brotherhood
Friday, 30 May 2014, 3:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
On 16 May, Libya’s rogue general Khalifa Haftar staged several bloody attacks against other Libyan militias in the name of eradicating terrorism by leading a paramilitary force evasively named the Libyan National Army. His well-equipped brigades were rapidly ... More >>
66 Year Nakba: I Saw Yafa, Land of Oranges
Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 1:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In ‘Jaffa: Land of Oranges’, Ghassan Kanafani described his exile from the Palestinian coastal city of Yafa. As a 12-year-old boy, he struggled to understand, but “on that night, though, certain threads of that story became clearer ... a big truck ... More >>
What the Media Is Not Telling Us about Yemen
Friday, 16 May 2014, 5:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“In Yemen today, the US embassy is closed to the public. Officials telling CNN there is credible information of a threat against Western interests there,” a CNN news anchor read the news bulletin on May 08. More >>
Navigating Syria: The Impossible, Indispensable Mission
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 2:29 pm | Ramzy Baroud
I unfriended another Facebook friend this week. It may seem to be a trivial matter, but for me, it is not. The reason behind my action was Syria. As in Egypt, Syria has instigated many social media breakups with people whom, until then, were regarded ... More >>
Palestinian Unity: Hope and Gloom in the Beach Refugee Camp
Thursday, 1 May 2014, 1:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
For years, Palestinian factions have strived for unity, and for years unity has evaded them. But is it possible that following several failed attempts, Fatah and Hamas have finally found that elusive middle ground? And if they have done so, why, to ... More >>
Martin Indyk’s Galloping Horse:Moral Crisis in Obama’s Peace
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 1:29 pm | Ramzy Baroud
To understand how thoughtless the US latest ‘peace process’ drive has been, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theater. One particular character who stands out as a testament to the inherently futile exercise ... More >>
Why Israeli Officials Chuckle: ‘Stable’ West Bank Dilemma
Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 3:19 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Ze’ev Elkin, is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and his predominantly rightwing cabinet. In a recent interview with The Economist, Elkin used the familiar tone of being conceited and oblivious to such ... More >>
New American Reality: An Empire beyond Salvation
Thursday, 10 April 2014, 5:34 pm | Ramzy Baroud
US Secretary of State John Kerry couldn’t hide his frustration anymore as the US-sponsored peace process continued to falter. After 8 months of wrangling to push talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority forward, he admitted while in a visit to Morocco ... More >>
Kerry’s Looming Deadline and the Peace Process Industry
Tuesday, 8 April 2014, 5:29 pm | Ramzy Baroud
As the US-imposed April 29 deadline for a ‘framework’ agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority looms, time is also running out for the American administration itself. More >>
Mahmoud Abbas vs Mohammed Dahlan: The Showdown Begins
Friday, 28 March 2014, 5:53 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was confined by Israeli soldiers to his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mohammed Dahlan reigned supreme. As perhaps the most powerful and effective member of the 'Gang of Five', he managed ... More >>
Kuffiya for Tony Benn: British Warrior Who Matured with Age
Thursday, 20 March 2014, 3:43 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take center stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years. More >>
Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The Lurking Danger Beneath
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 5:27 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the Mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher. More >>
Tears of Yarmouk – The Lesson Every Syrian Should Know
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 5:02 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In the early days of the Syrian uprising-turned civil war three years ago, the writing on the wall of it becoming an intricate regional and international conflict was there for all to see. Palestinians in Syria were likely to find themselves a pawn in a ... More >>
Omar and the Checkpoint: Essential Story that is Rarely Told
Thursday, 27 February 2014, 11:37 am | Ramzy Baroud
Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. He was accompanied by his father. On the way back, the ... More >>
Libyan Bedlam: General Hifter, CIA and the Unfinished Coup
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 11:28 am | Ramzy Baroud
On Friday, Feb 14, 92 prisoners escaped from their prison in the Libyan town of Zliten. 19 of them were eventually recaptured, two of whom were wounded in clashes with the guards. It was just another daily episode highlighting the utter chaos which has ... More >>
Preserving the Abu Ghraib Culture: The Abuse of Iraqi Women
Thursday, 13 February 2014, 1:54 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“When they first put the electricity on me, I gasped; my body went rigid and the bag came off my head,” Israa Salah, a detained Iraqi woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW) in her heartrending testimony. More >>
Iraq near Implosion: The ‘Bad Years’ Are Back
Thursday, 6 February 2014, 5:24 pm | Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hurried to his helicopter ready to take off at the end of a visit to Iraq last year, it was becoming clearer that the Americans have lost control of a country they wished to mold to their liking. ... More >>
Ten Principles to Guide the Young Activist
Friday, 31 January 2014, 4:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In a recent radio interview with a National Public Radio affiliate in Juneau, Alaska, I was asked if I had advice for a 16-year-old Palestinian student, Haitham. He had just arrived in the US as part of a school exchange program, and, admirably began ... More >>
