Real Iran splits and the myth of division

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka

Self Defense

[caption id="attachment_55230048" align="aligncenter" width="589" caption="Mohammed Riad Al-Shaqfa"][/caption] The Majalla has met with the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Mohammed Riad…

Roshan Kasem

Voice of the People?

[caption id="attachment_55229971" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="President of the SNC Borhan Ghalyoon at the press conference in Tunisia of Friends of Syria"][/caption] Sheikh Nawaf Bashir…

Andrea Glioti

Egypt's Hijacked Revolution

[caption id="attachment_55229965" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A demonstration in Tahrir Square against the expansion of Egypt's Emergency Law."][/caption] A world-famous novelist…

Alastair Beach

A Region Transformed?

  The Arab World has experienced a number of shifts and shocks since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Great War. It has never been immune to moments of change, but such moments while…

Andrew Bowen

No Nuclear Compromise

[caption id="attachment_55229792" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes Western influence on Iran, during a speech on 22 February (© the center for preserving and…

Mehdi Khalaji

Losing the Game

[caption id="attachment_55229704" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="A Tunisian youth joins a crowd under a looming portrait of Mohammed Bouazizi"][/caption] While it was largely the youth who…

Jacqueline Shoen

How the Islamists Took Power

[caption id="attachment_55229659" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Supporters of Tunisia's Ennadha party chant slogans at a campaign rally, in October 2011"][/caption] “How did that…

Nabila Ramdani

Love Me, Love Me Not

[caption id="attachment_55229641" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff sees the benefits of allying with the US rather than Iran"][/caption] Recent remarks by…

Nima Khorrami Assl

A Handshake to Kill

[caption id="attachment_55229626" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="David Cameron, (fourth left), leads the Somalia Conference at Lancaster House in London."][/caption] America has a problem…

Jacqueline Shoen