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Egypt Locks Down

Tom Stevenson, 23 November 2020

“... press owned by the General Intelligence Service. The current head of intelligence is General Abbas Kamel, President Sisi’s right hand man. The arrests were no error by an overreaching police chief. The order came from the top. Sisi has calculated that international expressions of sympathy for EIPR will be fleeting.Sisi and the military junta have done ...”

‘A Dubai on the Mediterranean’

Sara Roy: Trapped in Gaza, 3 November 2005

“... at the point where Gaza, Israel and Egypt meet that would require Palestinian labour and goods to go through Israeli territory. Israel’s Interior Ministry retains full control over the issuing of Palestinian identity cards and all population data – births, deaths, marriages – and all Palestinians must continue to be registered with the ministry. There ...”

After Arafat

Rashid Khalidi: Palestine’s options, 3 February 2005

“... Even in infirmity, however, Arafat was a more formidable politician than his colleagues Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Qurei, both of whom, as successive prime ministers in 2003, failed to impose themselves against his will. He then showed himself more able than men half his age, rapidly crushing an open challenge to his authority in the summer of 2004 by Muhammad ...”

We know it intimately

Christina Riggs: Rummaging for Mummies, 22 October 2020

A World beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology 
by Toby Wilkinson.
Picador, 510 pp., £25, October, 978 1 5098 5870 5Show More
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“... To the Past we must go as a relief from To-day’s harshness,’ the Egyptologist Arthur Weigall wrote in 1923, as illustrated newspapers were bringing Tutankhamun back to life. The First World War was over, but its aftershocks rippled on. Golden treasure, a boy pharaoh and lost tombs in the Valley of the Kings offered readers an escape ...”

Short Cuts

Adam Shatz: Condoleezza Rice, 3 January 2008

“... her own image when she went to New York on holiday two days after Hurricane Katrina. It didn’t go well. She was booed by an audience at Spamalot, and dressed down by a fellow shopper at Ferragamo on Fifth Avenue. ‘I just didn’t get it, frankly,’ Rice tells her biographer. ‘In Washington parlance,’ Bumiller explains, ‘Rice was staying in her ...”
From The Blog

Condo Diplomacy

Tom Stevenson, 6 May 2025

“... In negotiations between the US and Iran over Iran’s nuclear programme, Witkoff sat across from Abbas Arraghchi, a thirty-year veteran of Iran’s foreign ministry, who has been posted everywhere from Japan to Jedda and Helsinki.Trump appears to see Witkoff’s inexperience as a positive attribute. Rubio is involved in the talks with Iran, and the CIA ...”

Diary

Jonathan Steele: In Syria, 22 March 2012

“... posters, the determination, the courage. My neighbours in New Mezzeh are mainly pious Sunnis. They go to the mosque to pray, but they’re not Islamists. People’s energy is amazing. They were singing in the mosque. It’s unheard of to sing in a mosque.’ I went to Old Mezzeh the next morning. The two killed at the previous day’s funeral were buried at ...”

Shared Irresponsibility

Rashid Khalidi: Fatah and Hamas, 16 August 2007

“... for the national security adviser Muhammad Dahlan, with the at least tacit backing of Mahmoud Abbas, to succumb to American blandishments and try to mount an armed putsch against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Whether Hamas pre-empted this with a coup of their own, or whether Fatah made the first move, is ultimately irrelevant. Neither movement was able to see ...”

Mishal’s Luck

Adam Shatz: The Plot against Hamas, 14 May 2009

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas 
by Paul McGeough.
Quartet, 477 pp., £25, May 2009, 978 0 7043 7157 6Show More
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“... of poison on unsuspecting pedestrians in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu liked what he saw, and gave Yatom the go-ahead. He was not dissuaded by Hamas’s proposal for a 30-year hudna (truce), relayed by King Hussein on 22 September in a letter delivered by hand to the secret Mossad station at the Israeli embassy in Amman. Three days later, a pair of Mossad agents ...”

Why join Islamic State?

Patrick Cockburn, 2 July 2015

“... the border. Arabs who are now being evicted from their homes say the Kurds are telling them to ‘go back to the desert’. For the 2.2 million Syrian Kurds, a tenth of the Syrian population, the capture of Tal Abyad has enabled them to connect two of their three enclaves, which they call Rojava, or West Kurdistan. The largest enclave, or canton as the Kurds ...”

At Tate Britain

Peter Campbell: Van Dyck’s Portraits, 12 March 2009

“... poses of courtiers: she is much less glamorous in the portrait in European dress in the Shah Abbas exhibition at the British Museum, though the pistol she holds there tells one that she was a goer. In the case of the Earl of Denbigh, shown full length, it is his pink, gold-striped pyjama suit that is striking, as he is caught, fowling-piece in ...”
From The Blog

Trump’s Midnight Hammer

Tom Stevenson, 24 June 2025

“... taken in Washington. In January, Russia and Iran signed a comprehensive strategic partnership, and Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, travelled to Moscow on 22 June. But Russia has played no real part in the conflict. China, despite briefly showing interest in a settlement between Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2023, was absent. The UK, France and Germany ...”

A Pillar Built on Sand

John Mearsheimer, 8 November 2012

“... The Israelis found this out in Lebanon in 1992 when they assassinated Hizbullah’s leader, Abbas Musawi, only to find that his replacement, Hassan Nasrallah, was an even more formidable adversary. Second, the Israelis can invade Gaza and take it over. The IDF could do this fairly easily, topple Hamas and put an end to the rocket fire from Gaza. But ...”
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A Pillar Built on Sand

John Mearsheimer, 16 November 2012

“... The Israelis found this out in Lebanon in 1992 when they assassinated Hizbullah’s leader, Abbas Musawi, only to find that his replacement, Hassan Nasrallah, was an even more formidable adversary. Second, the Israelis can invade Gaza and take it over. The IDF could do this fairly easily, topple Hamas and put an end to the rocket fire from Gaza. But ...”

Short Cuts

Eyal Weizman: Arafat’s Tomb, 9 January 2014

“... from Arafat’s tomb – now scattered across Europe like the relics of a medieval saint – will go on being the subject of this bizarre political-scientific battle, in which the credibility and expertise of all the teams are perpetually cast into doubt. The removal of the keffiyeh to Lausanne was only a temporary setback for the creators of the Arafat ...”

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