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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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Ramzy Baroud: The Useless Logic of Round Numbers
Monday, 15 February 2010, 12:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The media’s habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outlets commented on President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, as well as on the anniversary of his election ... More >>
From Gaza to Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 4:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever. The recent rhetoric that has escalated from ... More >>
It’s Not a New Turkey, It’s The Right Time
Monday, 1 February 2010, 1:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row - that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return to normal, if not to its former degree of warmth” – seems sensible and daring. In ... More >>
Iran and Latin America: The Media States Its Case
Friday, 22 January 2010, 2:31 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Should the United States be concerned about Iran’s determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the Ayatollahs’ strategy of cozying up to Latin America? More >>
Ramzy Baroud: An Odyssey for Justice
Friday, 15 January 2010, 10:56 am | Ramzy Baroud
The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the International Brigades against fascism during the Spanish Civil ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Media Vultures Are Coming
Friday, 8 January 2010, 12:38 pm | Ramzy Baroud
As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a plethora of viewpoints is available. It might also seem that the apparent increase ... More >>
Freedom Of Expression At Risk
Friday, 8 January 2010, 10:23 am | Ramzy Baroud
As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a plethora of viewpoints is available.Unfortunately, this is far from the case. The ... More >>
On Gaza Drivers, Rumours and Egypt’s Steel Wall
Friday, 1 January 2010, 11:27 am | Ramzy Baroud
Those pesky taxi drivers of Gaza are always circulating rumours. One story that made the rounds during the first Palestinian uprising in 1987 claimed that an Arab army crossed the Sinai desert to save Palestinians from the daily killings and protracted ... More >>
Palestine/Israel: A Single State of Liberty
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:30 am | Ramzy Baroud
Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been multi-religious and multi-cultural. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. More >>
Book Release Commemorating the Gaza Massacre
Monday, 28 December 2009, 12:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
LONDON - “And so I begin. His name was Mohammed Baroud, and he was a good man,” is how Ramzy Baroud concludes the Foreword to his new book, and embarks on a chronicle so rare and so powerful that the book promises to redefine the way the Gaza story ... More >>
Muslims Must Not Pay for Europe’s Identity Crisis
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 11:51 am | Ramzy Baroud
It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t get ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Lobby Within
Friday, 18 December 2009, 1:11 pm | Ramzy Baroud
A just and peaceful solution to the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict is only possible when the US ceases to block every attempt made towards it. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Hypocrisy of Al-Demoqratia
Friday, 11 December 2009, 12:30 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, following a national referendum, Switzerland has banned the construction of minarets, because minarets ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: A Paradigm Shift in Singapore
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 3:23 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last time answering journalists’ questions. It was the conclusion of 17th Apec Economies Leaders’ Meeting in Singapore, ... More >>
How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:56 am | Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV. ... More >>
How Israel Won the Settlement Battle Again
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:10 am | Ramzy Baroud
When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance against Israel’s continued violations of international ... More >>
No Emergency Summits for Arab Dev. Crisis
Saturday, 7 November 2009, 4:49 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars would receive so much attention in Arab media, was in itself ... More >>
War, Negation and Muslim Identity Revisited
Friday, 23 October 2009, 1:47 pm | Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim writer begins an article with, “who says the campaign for animal rights was started in the West ..” She goes on to argue that Islam provided the original treatise on the humane treatment of animals. Her case was poorly constructed, inadequately ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Abbas and the Goldstone Report
Friday, 16 October 2009, 11:49 am | Ramzy Baroud
As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially as it ... More >>
Obama’s Test: Democracy or Chaos in Latin America
Friday, 9 October 2009, 12:56 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Latin America stands at the threshold of a new era: one that promises a return to political uncertainty, violence and chaos or one of political stability and economic prosperity. Honduras is a crucial indicator. More >>
