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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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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 >>
Playgrounds for Palestine: One Marathon at a Time
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 5:37 pm | Ramzy Baroud
My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my feet. This doesn’t even begin to convey half of the story of the punishment that my body ... More >>
A Third Palestinian Intifada in the Making
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 12:02 pm | Ramzy Baroud
At a recent conference I was repeatedly asked about the prospects for a third Palestinian uprising, or Intifada. The question, although seemingly uncomplicated, is both loaded and important, and cannot be answered in a mere two minutes or less. More >>
World Food Day: Global Crises’ Double Standards
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 10:39 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much of the world media and governments are consumed with an economic crisis of epic proportions, ... More >>
Eu. & the M. East: Will EU Be a More Just Mediator
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 5:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East's most protracted conflict, that of Israel and Palestine. But willingness doesn't necessarily indicate readiness. More >>
VP Debate: High Time to Move Beyond Clichés
Monday, 13 October 2008, 4:56 pm | Ramzy Baroud
One should rightly assume that the weight of the US financial crisis, the full impact of which is just beginning to unravel, and the widening military debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, would compel new thinking amongst leading US politicians. And then ... More >>
Life after Bush: Forecasting Peace in Palestine
Monday, 6 October 2008, 11:54 am | Ramzy Baroud
President Bush sounded much less uncertain of his peace "vision" when he received Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Sept. 25. Certainly much has changed since the Nov. 2007 conference in Annapolis, Maryland, where Bush and his ... More >>
Palestinian Economy: From Bad to Wretched
Monday, 29 September 2008, 8:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The numbers are grim, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian economy is in one of its most wretched states, and the disaster is mostly, if not entirely manmade, thus reversible. More >>
Palestinian Unity: Goal or Mantra?
Friday, 19 September 2008, 1:52 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa used exceptionally tough language during a Cairo news conference 9 September, when he lashed out at Palestinian factionalism, saying that the League is going as far as studying the possibility of imposing sanctions ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Syria-Israel Peace Gambit
Monday, 15 September 2008, 12:18 am | Ramzy Baroud
Few would argue that the indirect Israel-Syria talks through Turkish mediation, which were first announced 21 May, were a sign of political maturity and readiness for peace. In fact, while the discussions seemed concerned with the occupied Syrian Golan ... More >>
How Bush Inspired a New World Order
Friday, 5 September 2008, 12:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US's world standing much sooner than most analysts predict. What was difficult to foresee ... More >>
