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Reports are circling on Wall Street that Dubai’s debt may be as high as $120 billion (almost double initial estimates) and that Dubai’a ruler was “too proud” to admit the extent of the debt crisis. The Sunday Times has bad commentary on Dubai’s bust. This cartoon went along with the bad taste of the article. [...]
Swiss Ban Building of Minarets on Mosques By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and STEVEN ERLANGER Published: November 29, 2009 GENEVA — In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of [...]
Check out the following LRB review that goes over the debate Ehsani and Omar Dahi just had on neoliberal economics on Syria Comment. We simply do not know! Review of Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller John Gray in London [...]
Book Review: A Memoir-Novel of Tadmur Military Prison Mustafa Khalifa. Al-Qawqa’a [The Shell]. Beirut: Dar al-Adab (http://adabmag.com/books) , 2008. [This review is based on the Arabic original] The book is also available in French: Moustafa Khalifé. La Coquille: Prisonnier politique en Syrie. Traduction Stéphanie Dujols. Arles: Actes Sud, 2007. By Shareah Taleghani in Syrian Studies [...]
Syria: Has it won? by Oliver August Nov 26th 2009 | DAMASCUS From The Economist Under its surprisingly durable leader, Syria has stubbornly nudged its way back into the heart of regional diplomacy. It can no longer be ignored SIX years ago, President Bashar Assad looked weak, stumbling and isolated. In the words of the [...]
Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell November 25, 2009 Washington, D.C. MR. MITCHELL: Great. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Prime Minister Netanyahu has just announced his government’s moratorium on new settlement buildings. I think it’s important to look at this issue in a broader context, particularly how it affects the situation on the [...]
I am off to Middle East Studies Association meeting in Boston for 5 days. I hope Alex and Ehsani will entertain you all. Nicholas Noe believes Hizbullah is looking for a fight with Israel, which will come soonish. He writes: “The overwhelming sentiment within the party [Hizbullah] seems to be that a confrontation is not [...]
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy greets Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad at the Elysee Palace in Paris November 13, 2009. [Landis analysis] France is getting ahead of the US and Israel in championing Syria and possible peace with Israel. Feltman says US differences with Syria are “profound.” This is the same language I have heard from the [...]
Neo-liberalism in Syria: Long live the TINA Argument By Shamel Azmeh (See his Blog) Margaret Thatcher used to challenge her critics by employing what became known as the TINA argument (There is no alternative). Following her example, and for about two decades, neo-liberals, using their influence in governments, media, and academic institutions, managed to convince [...]
Omar S. Dahi Critiques Ehsani and “Neoliberalism” Nov. 2009 For Syria Comment Omar S. Dahi is Assistant Professor of Economics, Hampshire College. With an estimated 40% of the total population of 80 million Egyptians living under the poverty income line of $2 per day, despite five years of strong economic growth in Egypt, many people [...]
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