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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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Intifada: A Third Chapter?
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:33 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from being cleared away. Graves continue to receive victims, young and old alike, from Israel's most recent offensive. And in the midst ... More >>
Durban II: Politicizing Racism
Monday, 16 March 2009, 1:43 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Many countries are set to participate in the Conference against Racism, scheduled to be held in Geneva, April 20-25. But the highly touted international meet is already marred with disagreement after Israel, the United States and other countries decided ... More >>
Was Hamas the Work of the Israeli Mossad?
Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement. More >>
Was Hamas the Work of the Israeli Mossad?
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:53 am | Ramzy Baroud
While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement. More >>
Engaging Hamas: Will History Repeat Itself?
Monday, 2 March 2009, 8:52 am | Ramzy Baroud
The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political repositioning which was reported as soon as Israel declared its unilateral ceasefire promised that Israel’s deadly ... More >>
A New Afghanistan Nightmare Commences
Monday, 23 February 2009, 10:13 am | Ramzy Baroud
When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following day. February 15 commemorates the end ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Change the Lobby
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 3:52 pm | Ramzy Baroud
One cannot emphasize enough the stranglehold Israel’s lobbying infrastructure has on US foreign policy. The events of recent weeks undoubtedly attest to this. “The special relationship” that has been historically fostered between the US and Israel ... More >>
For Palestinians, Obama’s Message is Crystal Clear
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:35 am | Ramzy Baroud
When former President George W. Bush departed for his final trip home, that very moment represented an end of a long and unbearable nightmare, one that Bush epitomized until his last day in office. More >>
Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 4:06 pm | Ramzy Baroud
My three-year-old son Sammy walked into my room uninvited as I sorted through another batch of fresh photos from Gaza. More >>
Gaza: A New Middle East Indeed
Friday, 16 January 2009, 3:06 pm | Ramzy Baroud
As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ‘extract’ Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement, capable ... More >>
Is Israel Winning the 'Media War' over Gaza?
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
"We are all Hamas," screamed a scrawny Mauritanian, repeatedly, as he determinedly drew his face closer to a TV camera. Behind him, thousands more tunefully chanted similar words, chants that were heard in different Arabic dialects, in fact in many ... More >>
Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change?
Saturday, 3 January 2009, 2:38 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without censorship. When Israel carried out massive ... More >>
Unscripted: Green Zone Theater and the Shoe Drama
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 1:06 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors - US President George W. Bush, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki – took to the stage to perform another well-rehearsed press conference. The scripts ... More >>
Gaza: The Untold Story
Friday, 19 December 2008, 3:33 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and reductionist assumptions, convenient but deceptive, vacant of any relevant meaning, or even true ... More >>
Cluster Bomb Treaty & World’s Unfinished Business
Monday, 15 December 2008, 12:18 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part in the historic signing of a treaty that bans the production and use of cluster bombs. In a world that is plagued by war, military ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Iraq's US Security Charade
Friday, 5 December 2008, 4:19 pm | Ramzy Baroud
World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after the Iraqi parliament ratified the agreement on Thursday, 27 November. The approval came one week after the Iraqi ... More >>
Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast
Friday, 28 November 2008, 12:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "American Idol" nor "Dancing with the Stars" that brings them together. It's ... More >>
The Rights of Women as Casualties of War
Monday, 24 November 2008, 9:25 am | Ramzy Baroud
Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. But their losses also helped further delineate the plight of millions of women in war zones and poor countries. More >>
Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics & Elections
Monday, 17 November 2008, 10:36 am | Ramzy Baroud
There are a few buzzwords that every American politician, aiming for high office must utilize, even if disingenuously, to have a reasonable chance at getting elected. More >>
Bush’s Last Bullet: Why the US Attacked Syria
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 5:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its civilians killed. More >>
