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Walk like an Egyptian: Obama goes to Cairo
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Aziz Poonawalla
President Obama’s long-anticipated foreign policy address, from the venue of a major muslim capital, has been finalized – he will deliver his speech in Cairo on June 4th. In many ways this was the obvious, “safe” choice, though my personal preference would have been Tehran. Unfortunately it seems that Iran as the Bad Guy is…
Better to be Jewish in Bahrain than Shi’a
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Aziz Poonawalla
Bahrain is aggressively courting it’s tiny remnant of a Jewish community: In the tense landscape of the Middle East, there is little room left for Jewish Arabs, a tiny minority in this country as well as in places like Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. But in Bahrain, the king, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, has taken unprecedented…
The Saudi “Shi’a problem” – a waxing crescent
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Aziz Poonawalla
Relations between the Shi’a minority and the Sunni majority in Saudi Arabia aren’t great even in teh best of times, but in some ways the events of the past few years – notably the war in Iraq and the emergence of Iran as a regional player via proxy in the Israel-Palestine conlfict – have made…
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