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Arabist Snobs

by Daniel Pipes November 28, 2011

Is knowledge of Arabic necessary to write about Arabs or make policy toward them? Yes, sniff some of those who have learned the language, known as Arabists.
Antony T. Sullivan, for example, pulls rank in the journal Historically Speaking. Critiquing…

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US Middle East Policy Muddle: To Democratize, Or Not to Democratize?

by Daniel Pipes November 10, 2011

The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding the suppression of dissidents in Bahrain while celebrating dissidents in Egypt? Or protect Libyan rebels from government attacks but not their Syrian…

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The Canadian Muslim Difference

by Daniel Pipes November 4, 2011

In their study for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, “What Do Muslim Canadians Want? The Clash of Interpretations and Opinion Research,” Christian Leuprecht and Conrad Winn open with a discussion of ways to understand Muslim attitudes in Canada, then go on to…

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Obama’s Misplaced Mideast Optimism

by Daniel Pipes October 28, 2011

Confidently commenting on the execution of Libya’s long-time dictator, Barack Obama stated that “the death of Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi showed that our role in protecting the Libyan people, and helping them break free from a tyrant, was the right thing to…

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Tyrants, Beware!

by Daniel Pipes October 26, 2011

Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, Libya’s leader since 1969, is defunct, gunned down in his home town of Sirte.
How fitting that he called the rebels against him “rats,” yet his final moments were spent in a reeking drainage pipe under a highway,…

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Enter Cyprus, Stage Left? Or Right?

by Daniel Pipes October 18, 2011

Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change. As it belatedly makes its grand debut on the world stage after domestic Greek-Turkish communal issues have consumed its first…

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A Rogue Turkey

by Daniel Pipes September 30, 2011

In a Middle East wracked by coups d’état and civil insurrections, the Republic of Turkey credibly offers itself as a model thanks to its impressive economic growth, democratic system, political control of the military, and secular order.
But, in reality,…

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