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What if the Green Revolution fails?
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Aziz Poonawalla
A remarkable thing happened yesterday at President Obama’s afternoon press conference – he took a question from an Iranian, relayed via Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post. Pitney solicited questions via the Iranian Farsi-language social networking site Balatarin and invited the community to vote on which one to ask Obama, and the question that received…
liberal interventionism vs imperialism
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Aziz Poonawalla
At Talk Islam, I have (another) healthy debate with Abu Noor about the Iraq War, pragmatic liberal intervention, and imperialism. We end up debating the merits of interventionism a lot over at TI, don’t we?
Liberal Intervention: A Talk Islam Debate
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G. Willow Wilson
Guest post by G. Willow Wilson. Over at TalkIslam, we’ve been having an ongoing debate about the merits of liberal military intervention around the world. The debate was sparked by an entry about the Shabab Islamist group, which is growing in power and influence in Somalia. A condensed version follows: Tariq Nelson: I hope that…
the shoe-thrower is sorry
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Aziz Poonawalla
If this is sincere, then good: An Iraqi journalist arrested after throwing his shoes at George Bush, the US president, has reportedly sent a letter to the Iraqi prime minister to apologise for the incident and seek a pardon. A spokesman for Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, said on Thursday that Muntazer al-Zaidi had acknowledged…
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