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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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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 >>
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 >>
