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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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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 >>
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 >>
