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AlQuds alArabi prints an op-ed by Egyptian writer Mohammed Diab called "Political writing, and the issue of Liberalism and its relationship to projects for change".He says political writing has b...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-political-writing.html

The announcement and interpretations of the Afghanistan/Pakistan "policy" have said nothing about those actual countries, and here is the reason: The problem--"how to make the US government move"...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/washington-solipsism.html

Paul Krugman has famously complained of a feeling of policy-despair, and now in the Atlantic, a former chief economist at the IMF has a similar complaint. Without questioning the fact that they h...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/funny-stories-in-international-finance.html

ObamaIn the first year, in the spring, the court was in declinethe poets were writing satire

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/from-annals-of-historian.html

is the road more difficult than climbing the blue heaven...--Li Bai

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/difficult_27.html

colors

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/bright.html

On March 19, Prime Minister Maliki's office issued a statement clarifying the meaning of his recent statements about an opening to those outside the political process, and in particular the ambig...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/news-and-question.html

For what it's worth, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, 19-year-old up-and-coming blogger Ezra Klein explained why he was a strong supporter a US war against Iraq, despite his dislike of Bush, a...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/fame-and-war-promotion-on-left.html

AlHayat prints the first installment of an extended interview with Ahmed Chalabi--it would be a tough job for some poor soul to translate, if anyone were to bother, let alone annotate with all th...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/chalabi-says-cia-was-expecting-baathist.html

Too much has been made about the uniqueness of Jonathan Krohn, the gifted 14-year-old conservative thinker and talk-show radio orator featured in the NYT a few days ago. Because there's 24-year-o...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-is-pakistan.html

Nahrainnet.net, the Sadrist-leaning news-site, says this: In a serious followup to the recent reports that have spoken of an American/British plan to return the Baathists to the scene of power in...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/todays-usbaath-alliance-news.html

Iraqi writer Fadhil Al-Rubaie, continuing his series in the Qatari paper AlArab on Iraqi national policy, has some interesting observations on what people think the current American position is, ...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-skeptical-reference-to-idea-of.html

(See also this piece by LB at RoadstoIraq. What I have tried to do here is merely spell out what could well be an Iranian view and/or Daawa-party view of what the American administration is curre...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/fyi.html

Ignorant of Pakistan, feeling victimized by the corporate media coverage? Why not read the five comments on this post by Manan Ahmed, alias sepoy, where Pakistanis express their jubilation over t...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-then-god-smiled.html

AlHayat this morning summarizes statements about the "Maliki to talk to Baathists" story, as follows:A spokesman for the De-Baathification Commission said as far as his agency is concerned, it ha...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/iraqi-electoral-politics-and-american.html

No one can keep up with LB at RoadstoIraq when it comes to keeping track of interesting stories. She notes that AlArabOnline, following up on the original AlShorouq story, runs an opinion survey ...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/maybe-this-is-correct-answer.html

AlQuds AlArabi today refers to a planned "new" round of talks between representatives of Maliki and certain Baathists, something the journalist describes as the culmination of two years of commun...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/or-old-wine-in-old-bottles.html

It is an idea that seems to be catching on: If America and its "moderate Arab" friends want to create any kind of bulwark against expanded Iranian influence in the region following the US "withdr...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/de-bremerizing-iraq-can-it-be-done.html

If it were possible to reverse six years of sectarian political culture in a single year, the report released on Tuesday by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI, where Reidar Vi...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/nupiiraqi-report-read-it.html

I have concluded--very judiciously I think, and only after several years of doing this--that it doesn't matter, in American politics or public opinion, what opinions are expressed or by whom in t...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/summing-up.html

Reluctantly and unwillingly or voluntarily; by agreement and understanding and in the framework of the famous agreement with the Iraqis or without any deep consultation with them; with what they ...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/03/reluctantly-and-unwillingly-or.html

Zaid Al-Zubaidi writes in AlAkhbar about anxiety on the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities over the security implications of the latest political development: namely Maliki's apparent move...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/02/post-election-sectarian-logic-causing.html

Abdul Amir Al-Rikabi, an ex-pat Iraqi who has belonged to the anti-occupation Iraqi National Alliance aka Iraqi Patriotic Alliance, writes in AlQuds alArabi: The eagerness on the part of the Saud...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/02/plan-for-arab-iraq.html

There are a couple of odd coincidences in the recent report about Carole O'Leary's meeting with former-regime officers in Amman. The first is the invitation said to have been offered to the ex-of...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/02/coincidences.html

Qatari paper AlArab quotes sources who say the Maliki administration is preparing to disband the network of secret informants that was set up by the Americans right after the invasion, and that h...

http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-say-americaniraqi-secret-informant.html