Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BEININ Joel
President Husni Mubarak’s unexpected announcement that Article 76 of the Egyptian constitution will be amended to permit a direct and competitive vote in the September presidential election has captured the attention of the international and local media and political classes. The substance of (…)
, by MEIJER Roel
The October 15, 2005 referendum on the new Iraqi constitution, like other stages in the US-sponsored political transition after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, drew fresh attention to the many opponents of that transition and the US occupation who are not directly involved in the ongoing (…)
, by SOURANI Ghazi
There is no doubt that international qualitative continuous change that distinguished the last two decades of the twentieth century and the influenced politics, economics and scientific progress formed a new historical contemporary era that put our planet facing a new historical stage. The (…)
, by AIT-HAMOU Louisa
Introduction
Since 11 September 2001, the world, and particularly the United States, seem to have suddenly realised that Muslim fundamentalism, in its extreme form of terrorism, is a real threat. It is only now that the US and many European countries recognise that they have to build (…)
, by AFARY Janet, ANDERSON Kevin B.
FEBRUARY 2004 MARKED THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iranian Revolution. From September 1978 to February 1979, in the course of a massive urban revolution with millions of participants, the Iranian people toppled the regime of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1941-1979), which had pursued a (…)
, by ABDELRAHMAN Maha
The political opposition in Egypt has recently been showing growing forms of cooperation, especially at the grass root level. The nationalist Nasserists, Leftists and Islamists are infamous for their internecine conflict and none are a homogeneous political group representing a monolithic (…)
, by BELLO Walden
A defiant slogan repeated by residents of Falluja over the last year was that their city would be “the graveyard of the Americans.” The last two weeks has seen that chant become a reality, with most of the 88 US combat deaths falling in the intense combat around Falluja. But there is a bigger (…)
, by ALI Tariq
The physical and moral courage of a unique writer, and fighter-leading Arab intellectual, unconforming cultural theorist, champion of the Palestinian cause in the heartland of Israeli overseas power.
Edward Said was a longstanding friend and comrade. We first met in 1972, at a seminar in New (…)
, by COLE Juan
The ambitious aim of the American war in Iraq—articulated by Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and other neoconservative defense intellectuals—was to effect a fundamental transformation in Middle East politics. The war was not—or not principally—about finding weapons of mass destruction, or (…)
, by MIR-HOSSEINI Ziba
The decision to award the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, the intrepid Iranian human rights lawyer and former judge, took everyone by surprise — not least Ebadi herself. On the morning of October 10, when the award was announced, the Nobel winner was about to leave Paris, where she had (…)
, by ALI Tariq
The American expedition to Baghdad, and world-wide reactions to the new imperium. From mass demonstrations against the war to the diplomatic hypocrisies colluding with it. The UN as framework of blockade and intervention yesterday, and mask of reconstruction tomorrow.
On 15 February 2003, (…)
, by ALI GONDAL Zulfikar, AMIN Hussin, BELLO Walden, DOCENA Herbert, ROSALES Etta, SARI Dita Indah
Damascus,
The Asian Peace Mission to Baghdad denounces in the strongest terms possible the US decision to launch unilateral military action against the peoples of Iraq.
Both US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair offer as the prime justification fot their coming war (…)
, by CHETRIT Sami Shalom
On March 21, a conference was held at Beit Hillel, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem celebrating 30 years since the founding of the ‘Black Panthers’ movement: a movement whose emergence marked a turning point in the Mizrahim struggle for equality in Israel. The conference hall packed with (…)
, by PILGER John
THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that “no final decision has been taken”, Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated their “patrols” over Iraq to an all-out assault on (…)
, by KHIARI Sadri, TLILI Olfa
In a referendum held on Sunday May 26, 2002, Tunisian President Zine el Abidine ben Ali, in power since 1987, won the right to run for re-election in 2004 and 2009. Under key changes approved in the plebiscite, which drew a 99.52 percent ’yes’ vote according to the régime, presidential term (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
Pure sadness. On the plane from Paris to Tel Aviv last Wednesday, that was the feeling overwhelming me as I thought about the reality of witnessing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at first hand.
Personal memories come back: those of friends from my schooldays in Morocco who, in the 1960s, had (…)
, by SAID Edward
Naguib Mahfouz died yesterday. He was one of the world’s great writers. Here’s what the late Edward Said wrote about him on [Counterpunch] site back in December, 2001. AC / JSC
Before he won the Nobel Prize in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz was known outside the Arab world to students of Arab or Middle (…)
, by SAID Edward
As pressures mount upon the Palestinians and Israel continues its drive to put down the second Intifada, what kind of leadership does the PNA provide? Excoriating its irresponsibility and corruption, Edward Said issues a call for Arafat’s departure.
Israeli pressure on Palestinians was (…)
, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme
[31 July 2001] What started in Hassi Messaoud, Algeria on the night of July 13-14, 2001 is NOT one more crime/violence/violation in the wartime situation that our country has now become famous for. A qualitative change has taken place. For the first time one has witnessed crimes committed not (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KAHN Marcel-Francis, TOMIEWICZ Stanislas, VIDAL-NAQUET Pierre
THE FOLLOWING TEXT (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures.
CITIZENS OF THE countries in which we live and citizens of the (…)
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