Category Archives: Arab World

Watch: Hidden camera shows life under “Islamic State” cutthroats

Courtesy: The Young Turks The

Watch: Iraq’s Yazidi refugees – who are they and what is their future?

Chased out of their homes, hiding

Watch: Yemen – a failed state

Since 2011, when Yemeni youths

Time running out for peace in Middle East

Uri Avnery says time is running out for Israelis to make peace with Arab nationalists, especially with the Palestinian people, before religious fanatics – Muslims and Jews – sweep across the region.

An Islamic aberration

Jamal Kanj argues that the “Islamic State”, which is wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, is a prodigy of George W. Bush, whose invasion of Iraq created the conditions for its birth.

Jihadism and how to isolate, contain and defeat it

Alan Hart argues that jihadism cannot be defeated militarily but can be contained and eradicated if the US changes its foreign policy and Muslims reinterpreted the Quran to suit the modern age.

Watch: A brief explanation of Libya’s demise

For the casual observer, the

Listen: Will Nuri al-Maliki’s departure diffuse Iraq’s crisis?

On 14 August Nuri al-Maliki agreed

Watch: the “Islamic State” (formerly ISIS) from the inside

The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni

A monster in the birthplace of civilization

Many of us have by now seen the