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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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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 >>
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 >>
