The Middle East Insight– category –

Catch the pro-Palestinian rally last weekend in Toronto's busiest shopping neighborhood, over a thousand people there. It was obvious that the organizers were professional veterans. There were even two mute anchors, working in shifts. Th...

Original Southern Weekend 2013-07-11 Since July, conflict has raged and hatred is building walls of division. There was little optimism about Egypt when the Muslim Brotherhood figure became president, and now even the White House can't f...

Southern Weekend Qadhafi died when a group of young men carrying looters dragged him out of a sewer pipe in Sirte, humiliated him as if he were a street hustler, and subsequently executed him. The myth of the Gaddafi revolution, which ha...

I do it all the time myself and don't talk about it. Considering that we've been communicating a lot lately and inevitably come across the word, I'd like to suggest it anyway. If anyone wants to feel like they can get an initiative toget...

The cover of a new issue of The Economist is titled "The Iranian Revolution is Over". It is to the effect that the roaring Islamic revolution of 1979 is coming to an end, and that Iranians are no longer fanatical, but want to join the cu...

  "Big Pompadour" - a nickname given to Gaddafi by young Libyans - "Gaddafi's ideas and governance are as outdated as his hairstyle ". The young fighters' favorite battle cry is: we're going to give Gaddafi a haircut! Libyan nationals, w...

This article is a guest post by Boya Kids  Hello, I am Qin Xuan, originally an international journalist and the author of the Burson-Marsteller series Uncle Fatty Takes You on a Journey. I would like to solemnly recommend a book to all o...

The Decline of the Secular Community Although the Arab world has never been short of coups, upheavals and wars since World War I, this nation-building campaign by fundamentalist Islamic militant groups remains subversive. The name of the...

First of all, I think this is no longer just a war between Israel and Hamas, it is profoundly affecting the shaping of the Palestinian nation and future Palestinian-Israeli relations along with counter-terrorism, and along with the human...

  With regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, people have recently begun to fill in the gaps and make all sorts of claims. What about going back to the 1967 line, Palestinian-Israeli merger, that the Germans should be allowed t...