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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: Blame It on Arafat
Friday, 18 November 2005, 10:47 am | Ramzy Baroud
Despite initial claims that Yasser Arafat’s absence - as an ‘obstacle’ to peace - would reinvigorate the Arab-Israel peace process, events on the ground fail to point toward such a reality, one year after the powerful Palestinian leader’s death. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Rosa Parks' Enduring Legacy
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 12:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
What I find truly remarkable in Rosa Parks’ now legendary defiance is the simple forthrightness of her actions. Her death, at the age of 92, should be more than a sober reminder of the legacy of a legendary Civil Rights pioneer, but rather a reminder ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Rolling Back Syria
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 10:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Syria verdict is out. In fact, it has been out for years, long before German investigator-judge Detlev Mehlis inundated us with the findings of his ground shaking report regarding who planned, funded and carried out the assassination of former ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Palestinian Quest to Break Away
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 12:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza has undoubtedly raised the level of mistrust among Palestinians toward what is now seen as the Sharon government’s irrevocable designs on the whole of the Occupied Territories. More >>
Myths About Iraq Must Be Dispelled For War To End
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
In the weeks and months preceding the Iraq war in March 2003, various US officials informed the already baffled public that the war would be marred with tactical misinformation for the sole purpose of derailing Iraq’s war stratagems and ultimately protecting ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Real Disengagement Plan Now at Work
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 12:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his right wing government could not have possibly envisioned a more gratifying scenario to the post-disengagement period than the one effectively advancing in the Gaza Strip. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Bush's Choice, America or the Empire
Friday, 7 October 2005, 12:40 am | Ramzy Baroud
Deep down, U.S. President George W. Bush should grasp the seriousness of his debacle. If true, then he must also appreciate the time element in averting the worse-case scenario, which he, along with an increasingly alienated number of ideologues are ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Rhetoric and Reality of War
Monday, 3 October 2005, 12:46 am | Ramzy Baroud
One of the earliest philosophers to wrangle with the blurred relationship between language and reality was the Buddhist Nagarjuna. He contested that reality is constructed by language as opposed to language essentially imitating reality. More >>
Covering Katrina: How Media Control Faltered
Thursday, 22 September 2005, 12:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
“Katrina Rekindles Adversarial Media,” read a title of one USA Today article, in reference to the deadly hurricane, which struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, and the media’s purportedly gutsy coverage of the government failures. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Perils of Normalization With Israel
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 10:19 am | Ramzy Baroud
There should be no doubt regarding the centrality and intensity of the relationship between the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the internal and external politics of Arab and Muslim nations, regardless of their geographic immediacy and level of involvement. ... More >>
Israel's Successful Use Of The Art Of Realpolitik
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:25 am | Ramzy Baroud
Many lessons can be drawn from the observation of Israeli dominion over the Palestinians in the past fifty-five years, most notably the audacious mandate of institutionalized violence. More >>
Pat Robertson Doesn’t Just Speak for Himself
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:41 am | Ramzy Baroud
The comments made by Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of the popular and democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are repellent, nonetheless customary of a confused man who has purposely swapped the compassionate ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Power of The Ordinary
Monday, 29 August 2005, 3:27 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother of 24-year-old son Casey, killed only days after joining his army unit in Iraq — is an ordinary woman with extraordinary bearings. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Disengagement That Isn’t
Monday, 22 August 2005, 2:35 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It is rather curious how the Palestinian Authority opted to get engaged in a process that was solely aimed at excluding it, and how the debate has completely shifted from Israel’s real motives to internal Palestinian quarrels over post-withdrawal ... More >>
Blaming the Mosques For the Sins of Governments
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 7:27 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud writes that the deadly terror attacks in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheik Red Sea resort in July and the earlier October 2004 bombings at two other Red Sea resorts seem to have disrupted the consistency of the rationale that links the current terrorism ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Just Who's Emboldening Terrorism?
Monday, 1 August 2005, 1:40 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Since the onset of the Bush administration's ill-defined mission and subsequent "long, long war on terror", the American people, even the whole world, have fallen victim to an utterly flawed, yet barely contested voice of reason. Despite the Vietnam-like ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Barbaric But Not Unexpected
Monday, 25 July 2005, 12:47 am | Ramzy Baroud
Barbaric. There is hardly any other term that is capable of depicting the murder of over 50 people and the wounding of hundreds more during London’s rush hour on July 7. Unexpected, however is the least relevant term. More >>
Sharon’s Disengagement & Unlearned History Lessons
Monday, 11 July 2005, 8:54 am | Ramzy Baroud
There is little in argument that the second Palestinian Uprising is effectively terminated, despite the fact that the causes which led to it remain in place. This claim does not deny the looming prospects of a third revolt, nor does it undermine the unbroken ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Arab Media Reinvented Yet Unchanged
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 12:10 am | Ramzy Baroud
One cannot effectively address the intricate subject of political, social and economic reforms anywhere in the world, without unwittingly stumbling on issues of relevance to freedom of speech and the sovereignty of the media. A free media is both a requisite ... More >>
Washington’s Prospective Policy in the Middle East
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 3:52 pm | Ramzy Baroud
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s highly publicized tour in the Middle East, Asia and Europe carried with it little or no surprises. But even then, one must not altogether write off the possibility of some lessons to be learned, even if indirectly. More >>
