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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: Abbas’ Terrible Dilemma
Monday, 9 May 2005, 11:20 am | Ramzy Baroud
To the uncritical eye, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looks like an ordinary statesman residing over an equally ordinary political reality. Nothing could be further from the truth. More >>
US Middle East Policy: Heedless But Unequivocal
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 10:32 am | Ramzy Baroud
There are no conspiracies to dissect, no hidden agendas to sort through and no oblique language to skillfully decode: the Bush administration's position on illegal Jewish colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories is crystal clear. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Gaza - The Line Of Memory & Despair
Monday, 18 April 2005, 12:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
I've known of Kassim Kafarneh for many years. His thick, wild beard is now neatly trimmed and his once unruly, black hair is combed in an orderly fashion. His spirit however is as free as the day I saw him filming in our refugee camp one Friday afternoon, ... More >>
Palestinian Struggle - Reality vs. Rhetoric
Monday, 11 April 2005, 11:17 am | Ramzy Baroud
No other national struggle in the world has assimilated itself, or has been inadvertently assimilated, to symbolize so many things to different people as has the Palestinian struggle. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s ‘Record Is Not Reassuring’
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 12:17 am | Ramzy Baroud
The main fallacy of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the last 12 years has been the complete omission or the indefinite postponement of fundamental Palestinian demands — demands sustained and cemented by international law and most ... More >>
A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:17 am | Ramzy Baroud
I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But not one checkpoint. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Reining in Syria on Behalf of Israel
Monday, 14 March 2005, 11:40 am | Ramzy Baroud
President Bush's stern warning urging Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon once again highlights the moral duplicity practiced by the US administration in its dealings with the Middle East affairs. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Taysir Doesn’t Deserve This
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 4:55 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Al Jazeera’s correspondent Taysir Alouni is in a Madrid jail for no other reason than challenging the Western and distinctively the American narrative of the Third World. More >>
Israel Is Again Redefining the Terms of Peace
Monday, 21 February 2005, 5:44 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The recent and supposedly ‘successful’ Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt on February 8 was anything but a triumph, as far as Palestinians, the occupied party, and genuine peace-seeking Israelis are concerned. More >>
R. Baroud: How Can Arabs Influence Western Media?
Friday, 11 February 2005, 11:20 am | Ramzy Baroud
How can Arabs influence Western media, combat its inherent bias and grotesque misrepresentations of the Arab and Muslim world? More >>
The Problem with Western Democracy in the ME
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 10:55 am | Ramzy Baroud
An online poll was recently carried out by the Arabic website of Aljazeera satellite television, where well over 80 percent of voters said that they distrust ''Western democracy''. More >>
The Challenge Of Another Term With The Bush Empire
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
When the final vote count confirmed President George W. Bush’s re-election last November, two competing analyses were offered regarding his second term in office. More >>
Despite Elections Charade, Israel Still Holds Keys
Friday, 14 January 2005, 1:04 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The atmosphere created by the Palestinian ‘presidential’ elections was nothing but a spurious charade. It was a dishonest representation of the real problem, and unfortunately many Palestinians played along. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Tsunami Aid and War Costs
Friday, 14 January 2005, 12:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
The swaths of South East Asia worst hit by the tsunami on December 26 and subsequent days have long been analogous with everything cheap: cheap laborers, cheap raw materials, cheap tourist destinations, and yes, much cheaper life. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Ample Hope for a Year to Come
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It’s an old habit with me to sign off my messages in the days preceding the New Year by expressing: ''I pray that the coming year will bring peace and justice to our troubled world.'' More >>
How About Mustafa Barghouti As An Alternative?
Friday, 24 December 2004, 11:24 am | Ramzy Baroud
Talks about national unity among various Palestinian factions, and the ''opportunity'' that might have emerged following the sudden death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have all faded into uncertainty. What remains is the most predictable, albeit consequential ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Save The World, Not the Empire
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 10:07 am | Ramzy Baroud
If the invasion of Iraq was indeed a desperate attempt to guard the interests of the ill-defined American empire, then the experience of the last 20 months might’ve been the needed historical imperative that classically precedes the disintegration ... More >>
Merci La France: We Will Be Forever Grateful
Friday, 19 November 2004, 10:04 am | Ramzy Baroud
By honoring President Yasser Arafat, France has honored every Palestinian man, woman and child. For this we will be forever grateful. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Life Without Arafat
Monday, 8 November 2004, 5:48 pm | Ramzy Baroud
If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's illness and unexpected departure to France represents the end of an era, as some rashly noted, it is because the absence of Arafat, even as a living symbol, is a matter of great consequence. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Stifling Absence of Arab Voice
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 12:02 am | Ramzy Baroud
I fail to come across a region in greater need of self-reflection and internal transformation than the Arab world. Yet it is as if the opposite is true. No Arab country exempt, Arab nations, led by their governments and intellectuals, continue to succumb to ... More >>
