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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: It’s the Media, Stupid
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
There is little disagreement on the indispensable role of the media in influencing political debate and narrative, thus shaping public discourse. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Jericho Prison Raid
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 11:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Could it be possible that the Israeli army raid on a Jericho prison on March 14 was done without careful coordination between Israel, the United States and Britain? Could it also be possible that the timing of the onslaught was equally innocent, ... More >>
Remembering a Valiant Journalist: Atwar Bahjat
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 11:27 am | Ramzy Baroud
A few weeks ago I learned that a journalist who was one of my colleagues was kidnapped, then, five days later, released unharmed with his driver in Baghdad. I was shocked, then relieved. I somehow managed to find some humor in the not-so-humorous event. More >>
Lying and Deception as the Government Policy
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 11:24 am | Ramzy Baroud
What is even more imprudent than the invasion of Iraq and the ‘war on terror’ is the Bush administration’s determination to interpret the tragedy of that stricken nation in a way that lays blame on just about everyone else but itself. And yet this ... More >>
Middle East Democracy and the Hamas Factor
Friday, 3 March 2006, 1:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
There is a degree of surrealism in all of this. Hamas has presented its choice of Prime Minister to President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says it has agreed in principle to join a Hamas-led government. More >>
Cartoon Awakening: A Positive Media Strategy
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:20 am | Ramzy Baroud
Much has been said and done in response to the deliberately offensive anti-Muslim cartoons published late last year by a conservative Danish newspaper, and profusely printed in many Europeans and non-European media, including South Africa, Jordan ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Weathering the Globalization Storm
Friday, 17 February 2006, 11:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
I spent much of the last three years working and traveling across the Middle East and Asia in one of the most unique and fulfilling experiences of my life. More >>
At Last, A Real Middle East Democracy Project
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The spectacular Hamas victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 25 has given rise to a new era of politics in Palestine, the Middle East and in the Arab and Muslim world as a whole. More >>
Punishing Denmark: Taking on the Wrong Enemy
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 12:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run such filth. ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Avoiding Iraq Fallout with Iran
Friday, 27 January 2006, 1:08 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries and official ... More >>
Exalting Sharon: A Dire Case of Collective Amnesia
Monday, 23 January 2006, 11:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
The mainstream media’s lionizing and exalting of the fatally ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could only be compared to that of great men and women of past years. More >>
Exalting Sharon: A Dire Case of Collective Amnesia
Friday, 20 January 2006, 1:40 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The mainstream media’s lionizing and exalting of the fatally ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could only be compared to that of great men and women of past years. More >>
Politics of Chaos: Gaza’s Turmoil in Context
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 10:57 am | Ramzy Baroud
The most recent kidnappings in the Gaza Strip are a disheartening testimony to how factionalism, corruption and lack of discipline can scar a national struggle that was meant to exemplify precisely the opposite. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Abundance of Hope for New Year
Monday, 9 January 2006, 1:45 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Celebrating a new year is an entirely sentimental decision, relevant to some, extraneous to others, and can indeed serve a greater purpose than random festivity and excess. It could actually be, and it is for many, an occasion to reflect on the successes ... More >>
Palestinian Politics brought to a Crossroad
Friday, 30 December 2005, 1:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian political life seems to be unwittingly embracing a distinctive style, contradicting its own traditional political parameters. The last few weeks clearly attest to this political divergence. More >>
US Image Problem Rooted in History, Not Media
Sunday, 25 December 2005, 7:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. "I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you have television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding America - ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Bush’s New Strategy Hastens Defeat
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 11:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
In a landmark speech before a most friendly audience at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on November 30, President Bush repeated a familiar mantra. His pronouncements were crafty and political, yet were neither concerned with the plight of Iraqis nor Americans, ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Media is No Exception
Friday, 9 December 2005, 4:24 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The further decline of Arab states’ political aptitude in recent years and their failure to produce even a trifling token of unity as a collective, or true sovereignty and self-assertiveness as individual states, is reflected in almost every aspect ... More >>
Another Meaning of Israel’s Political ‘Earthquake’
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 1:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Most of what has been written or said to depict Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's departure from the Likud party is parable to an "earthquake," or the "eruption of a volcano," and has, without a doubt, turned the Israeli political map "topsy-turvy," ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Gaza Border Deal
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according to an agreement brokered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. More >>
