Articles written by: Dr. Amal Al-Hazzani
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Thursday, 7 Feb, 2013
Know Your Enemy
I would like to thank those who showered me with a torrent of angry correspondence about my previous article on Israel, who accused me of calling for a normalization of relations, promoting the Hebrew language, and glorifying Israeli liberalism. This response was to be expected because I breached a taboo. However, I am sorry to say to those people, despite my appreciation of their opinions, that their outrage will not change the reality. Israel will remain as it is; a small state but stronger...
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Thursday, 31 Jan, 2013
The Israel We Do Not Know
Being something of an exception in the Middle East, the Israeli elections are often great fun and full of surprises. This time we saw the emergence of politician Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party that has won the admiration even of its political rivals after gaining 19 seats in the Israeli Knesset. Lapid is a TV presenter and a news anchor who decided only a few months ago to enter politics, competing with and even embarrassing senior politicians such as Tzipi Livni and Avigdor Lieberman...
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Friday, 18 Jan, 2013
Empowering Saudi women
Is it really true? Have Saudi women really been appointed to the Shura Council as full members, without prejudice, exception or curtailment? All of these questions were on the m...
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Thursday, 3 Jan, 2013
Women: Partners, opponents or victims?
Over the past months, numerous women in the Arab region, including doctors, media figures and academics, have been on the receiving of verbal and physical abuse. There have been ac...
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Thursday, 22 Nov, 2012
Now, the Israeli electorate must have its say
If the Israeli people choose Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election, then we will see another four years of security mismanagement in Israel, as well as further postponement o...
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Friday, 14 Sep, 2012
Obama’s concept of military intervention
The Obama administration continues to reject military intervention in Syria without international cover. Obama does not want to go down the same path as George W. Bush, who occupie...
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Thursday, 26 Jul, 2012
Nasrallah is panic-stricken
No one cares for the speeches of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah anymore. For years, satellite channels neglected to broadcast his speeches simply because people weren...
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Monday, 21 May, 2012
The idealistic Human Rights Watch
Recently, the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) was both upset and enraged by NATO, because of its response to a HRW report, citing the reasons for the air strikes that alleged...
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Tuesday, 15 May, 2012
Television’s hegemony
Social networking websites caught the attention of the people and governments of the Middle East after their impact and influence on the course of the Green Revolution in Iran, fol...
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Tuesday, 10 Apr, 2012












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