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| October 31 |
| Tulin Daloglu: Geopolitical realities in Ankara |
| Moshe Arens: Outwitting Ahmadinejad |
| Geopolitical Diary: Claiming a Strike in Pakistan |
| Pope's call for dialogue: One Muslim's response |
| Pope's call for dialogue: One Christian's response |
| A radical idea: How Muslims can be European, too |
| What would Democrats do about Iraq? |
| George Giacaman: Why did Oslo fail? |
| Ghassan Khatib: No good reason to reject borders first |
| Pakistan attack a setback to border peace |
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| October 30 |
| Naval Exercises off Bahrain: Preventing Proliferation
between N. Korea & Iran |
| World's tallest tower rising in Dubai |
| Iranian women outnumber men at university |
| Egypt turns to Russia and China over nuclear energy |
| Profile: Avigdor Lieberman: rising star of Israel's
right |
| Two Nobel Prize laureates pessimistic about Israel's
future |
| Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward |
| Fears of Inquiry Dampen Giving by U.S. Muslims |
| U.S.-led Gulf War Game Aims a Message at Tehran |
| Daoud Kuttab: Between bread and democracy |
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| October 29 |
| Anthony Shadid: This
is Baghdad. What could be worse? |
| Jon Sawyer: Iran
sounds an awful lot like Iraq |
| Mary Riddell: Where death is the penalty for going
bare-headed |
| Noah Feldman: Islam, Terror and the Second Nuclear Age |
| Yossi Ben-Ari: Make Assad an offer he can't refuse |
| Between D.C. and Damascus |
| Advancer: Kuwait opposition in driver's seat as
parliament meets |
| Suez crisis: Israel's forgotten war |
| Port Said remembers 'tripartite aggression' of 1956 |
| Suez crisis marked first ever UN deployment |
| Hubris: the new Iraq war syndrome |
| Leader: We have an obligation to stay in Iraq - for now |
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| October 28 |
| Saudi Arabia: Girding for a Minor Attack against Ras
Tanura |
| Iraq: Tea and kidnapping - behind the lines of a civil
war |
| The Grand Ayatollah Behind the Curtain |
| Con Coughlin: How the neo-cons lost the war |
| Azzam Tamim: All must play their roles |
| David Fromkin: Stuck in the Canal |
| Alon Ben-Meir: The bitter fruits of occupation |
| Europe: The Taliban's Broadening Scope |
| Bangladesh: Conditions Conducive to a Coup? |
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| October 27 |
| Bradley Burston: Smile when you hear 'Death to Israel' |
| Richard Spring: This is not another Iran |
| Feature: The cursed gypsies of conservative Gaza Strip |
| Advancer: Gulf monarchy to host democracy forum, and
Israel's FM |
| In Syria, Iraq's Fate Silences Rights Activists |
| Joel Mowbray: Palestinian 'humiliation'? |
| Michael Rubin: Why withdrawal from Iraq is the worst
option |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran and the Mirage of an Israeli-Arab Alignment |
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| October 26 |
| Karen Armstrong: My years in a habit taught me the
paradox of veiling |
| Iraq: A Sunni
Shift Against the Jihad |
| Thomas Raleigh: The strategic case for talking with Iran |
| US leaders rethinking Iraq tactics |
| Analysis: Dividing Iraq into regions would be a disaster |
| Eugene Robinso: Veracity or arrogance on Iraq? |
| Doubts Grow Over Iraq's Prime Minister |
| Bush's Proposal of 'Benchmarks' for Iraq Sounds Familiar |
| New Saudi Rules on Succession: Will They Fix the Problem?
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| Special: Iran veil obligation masks colourful diversity |
| Special: Behind which veil? Egyptian women mull options |
| Feature: Settlers influence in Israeli army growing |
| Feature: Israeli hippies dream of pot-fuelled Mideast
peace |
| Chad, Sudan: The Proxy Duel's Victims |
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| October
25 |
| Israeli PM risks losing all with coalition deal:
analysts |
| Feature: Black cloud threatens Egyptians' health |
| Daniel Pipes: Redeploy US troops to Iraq's desert |
| Iraq: Big Plans, Major Obstacles, for the Oil Sector |
| Geopolitical Diary: Hungarian Riots, French Riots |
| Simon Jenkins: We have turned Iraq into the most hellish
place on Earth |
| Con Coughlin: If Blair had foiled the neocons, Iraq
wouldn't be such a mess |
| Abduction signals troubling trend in Gaza |
| Outrage over North Korea dissipates |
| Never mind altruism: 'Saving the earth' can mean big
bucks |
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| October 24 |
| Niall Ferguson: America's Brittle Empire |
| Richard Holbrooke: Three Choices, Mr. President |
| Walid Phares:
The Caliph-Strophic Debate |
| Haaretz: Lieberman is a strategic threat |
| Ari Shavit: Peretz's last chance |
| Containing a Shiite symbol of hope - Robert Malley and Peter Harling |
| Israel: Olmert's Radical Reforms Not Likely to Pass |
| Fallout of Hamas's rule spurs Palestinian desire to flee
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| Sudan: Khartoum Moves Against Foreign Intervention in
Darfur |
| Geopolitical Diary: Somalia's Islamists Court Mainstream
Muslims |
| Feature: Wounded Iraq veteran running for Congress on
anti-war platform |
| Sebastian Mallaby: A Nadir of U.S. Power |
| Senior US diplomat's candor gets play in the Middle
East, ire at home |
| In Pakistan, entrepreneurs with a mission |
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| October 23 |
| The Exodus: 1.6m Iraqis fled their country since war |
| Scene: Gaza Strip opens briefly for Israeli Arabs on Eid
al-Fitr |
| Cathy Young: Women and Islam |
| At White House Meeting, No Big Changes on Iraq |
| Danny Rubinstein: Countdown for the Hamas government |
| Feature; Israeli policy splits Palestinian families |
| Speaking to Syria |
| Withdrawal from Iraq is now the best option |
| Michael Rubin: Misguided reconciliation with Baathists |
| Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground' |
| In Iraq, Shiite vs. Shiite power play |
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| October 22 |
| There are 300m Americans, but still not enough to rule
the world |
| Aslam Abdulklah: We're Muslim-Americans - kill us, too |
| Avirama Golan: Scratching the other's wounds |
| Iraq:
Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards |
| Islam and Women: Clothes Aren't the Issue |
| Feature: Empty pockets promise grim Eid feast for Gazans |
| Feature: Israeli activists help Palestinians harvest
their olive crop |
| Joan Vennochi: What's really going on in Iraq |
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| October 21 |
| Israeli billionaire's investment plan raises fears of a
hidden agenda |
| Mecca call for end to Iraq killing may go unheard:
analysts |
| The Real 'New Iraq' |
| Shi'ite militia in show of strength |
| How Bush might save face on Iraq |
| Henry Sokolski: Disarming the Mullahs |
| Charles Krauthammer: World War II Is Over |
| Ahmadinejad: "I Have a Connection With God" |
| The Iraqi Ba'th Party Issues a Hit List |
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| October
20 |
| David Ignatius: The Black Box of Tehran |
| Bush Faces a Battery of Ugly Choices on War |
| W F Deedes: Muslims can never conform to our ways |
| Bush is wrong: Iraq is not Vietnam |
| Iraq's violence heading toward two-year high |
| Taking on the veil: West looks to assimilation |
| How UN's new chief hopes to tackle crises |
| Nuke watch: The game's getting tougher |
| Tougher stance on crimes of US troops? |
| General view of Iraq war: It's a disaster |
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| October 19 |
| Chrono: Iran president's statements on Israel |
| Denied Entry - Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball |
| Muslim scholars write the pope - and everyone else |
| Pyongyang's nukes: How dangerous are they? |
| Sectarian Violence: Radical Groups Drive Internal
Displacement in Iraq |
| Gabi Avital: End nuclear ambiguity |
| Washington's Worst-Kept Secret: Changes are Coming in
Iraq Policy |
| Sheetrit: Israel must negotiate peace on the basis of the
Saudi initiative |
| Geopolitical Diary: Jihadists Seize the Initiative in
Iraq |
| Feature: Poor Egyptian women also bank on Grameen Nobel
prize |
| Feature: Striking doctors send sick Palestinians
scrambling |
| Feature: Palestinian woman battles blanket ban to study
in Israel |
| Feature:Bahrain gets first woman lawmaker as others face
uphill struggle |
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| October 18 |
| Iraq’s Christians Flee as Extremist Threat Worsens |
| George Friedman: North Korea and the Limits of Multilateralism |
| The Israeli model for detainee rights |
| Simon Jenkins: America has finally taken on the grim
reality of Iraq |
| Feature: Sex scandal latest to reflect changes in
Israeli political elite |
| North Korea: The Ramifications of a Second Nuclear Test |
| U.S.: At 300 Million Strong, the Benefits of 'Give Me
Your Tired, Your Poor' |
| John Hughes: Questions - and answers - about the threat
from North Korea |
| How America changed at 7:46 a.m. Tuesday |
| New high-tech defense against terrorism: fish |
| Stranger on a strange island: one lonely Iraqi refugee |
| Israel-Palestine: A chicken-and-egg question |
| Israel-Paelstine: Meltdown looms |
| Ali Jarbawi: Losing our compass |
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| October 17 |
| Denis MacShane: Our failure to confront radical Islam
is there for all to see |
| Jeff Stein: Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? |
| H.D.S. Greenway: A foreign policy meltdown |
| Gaza arms buildup brings Israeli raids |
| U.N.: Washington's Lucky Break |
| Suzanne Fields: From swords to bombshells |
| Geopolitical Diary: Considering Turkey's Interests in
Iraq |
| Sri Lanka: All Talk and No Action on Peace Talks |
| Isi Leibler: We need the guts to say no to Rice |
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| October 16 |
| India: Ripe for Another Militant Attack? |
| Daoud Kuttab: Not since the 'Nakba' |
| Katsav: Israel's lacklustre president facing rape
charges |
| Leslie Gelb: Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad? |
| Threats force Iraqi Christians to flee to Syria |
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| October 15 |
| Brahma Chellaney: Japan flexes its foreign-policy muscle |
| Palestinian charities help Hamas endure |
| British general's remarks spur Iraq debate |
| India Knight: Muslims are the new Jews |
| Feature: Egypt's veiled actresses make a comeback on
satellite TV |
| Analysis: UN action on NKorea not a precedent for Iran:
experts |
| Sever Plocker: Between Syria and North Korea |
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| October 14 |
| Profile: Egypt Muslim Brotherhood's 'audacious' leader |
| Feature: Hassan al-Banna, founding father of Egypt's
Muslim brotherhood |
| Feature: Syrian TV screens racy Ramadan soaps |
| Frida Ghitis: Will Iran follow North Korea's move? |
| Ending the Palestinian Political Stalemate: Abbas’s
Electoral Option |
| Russia: Americans as Targets of Ultranationalist Street
Gangs |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Non-Reactions to the North
Korean Test |
| Fawaz Gerges: Stoking Muslim anger |
| Pakistan: Rockets, Coup Rumors and Musharraf |
| Israel: A bogus demand for 'recognition' |
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| October 13 |
| Ze'ev Schiff: The not-so-far East |
| Jonas Attenhofer: Taking sides on genocide |
| Iraqi law paves way to splitting up country |
| Feature: Beleaguered Yazidi find peace high in Iraq's
northern mountains |
| Iraq, U.S.: An Extended Engagement |
| Iraq casualty figures open up new battleground |
| Palestine: How Weak is Hamas? |
| Caliwho?: Why is President Bush talking about an Islamic
caliphate? |
| Egypt: A Leap toward Reform—or Succession? |
| Iraqi Kurdistan: Time to Get Serious about Governance |
| French bill complicates Turkey's EU bid |
| Bush Urged To Take Lead in Peace Talks |
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| October 12 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Federalism and Factions in Iraq |
| Feature: Ancient sport still flexing its muscles in Iran |
| Give Iran the bomb: it might make the regime more
pliable |
| Ron Pundak: Will this Ehud make peace? |
| In Washington: Bush's Saudi moment |
| Entretainment: Israel unleashes its new horse racing
industry |
| Entertainment: Palestinian film festival battles odds to
promote culture |
| Helena Cobban: Bush created a mess in Iraq. Here's
how to clean it up |
| Strain shows on world's antinuke rules |
| Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center |
| George Friedman: U.S. Vulnerability and Windows of Opportunity |
| Jerome Segal: A Middle East breakthrough |
| Daniel Ben Simon: The king is disappointed with Israel |
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| October 11 |
| Simon Jenkins: Accept North Korea into the nuclear club
or bomb it now |
| Germany: Cracking Down on Cyber-Jihadists |
| Bennett Ramberg: North Korea has the bomb. Now what? |
| John Hughes: Problems in Iraq should not deter US
commitment to freedom |
| Scott Peterson: Will Iran follow North Korea's lead? |
| Peter Grier: The scramble for a way to stop nukes |
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| October 10 |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Failed Nuclear Test? |
| Special Report: New North Korean Preparations Likely
Just for Show |
| Amir Oren: Intelligence is not only early warning |
| Nina Khrushcheva: Moscow back in the shadows |
| Aaron Friedberg: The Bomb and Kim Jong Il |
| You want to know why North Korea did it? It's their
economy, stupid . . . |
| Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Comes Back to Haunt United States |
| Editorial: One Iraq or three? |
| Dan Plesch: North Korea's nuclear policy is not
irrational at all |
| The next 100 million and the face of America |
| North Korea rocks Asia's status quo |
| Walid Phares: The Continued Misunderstanding of the
Salafi Jihad Threat |
| Red Alert: North Korea -- Is There a Military Solution? |
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| October 9 |
| Red Alert: North Korea -- Is There a Military Solution? |
| A New Nuclear World |
| Nuclear weapons: Who owns what |
| Charles Tannock: Christians in Iraq a besieged minority |
| Behrooz Behbudi: From The free conscience of Iran |
| Feature: Amid civil war fears, Fatah and Hamas stockpile
arms |
| Elliot Jager:
The day before, and after Sadat |
| Efraim Inbar: Still a strategic asset for the US |
| Gideon Levy: The mystery of America |
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| October 8 |
| Yossi Melman: Iran and the UN - no sanctions on the
horizon |
| Jimmy Carter: Sadat Was Like a Brother To Me |
| Nicolas Sarkozy: Who is European? This is what we must
define |
| Robin Wright: Rice's Tour of Mideast Yields Little
Progress on Key Issues |
| Robert Satloff: The Holocaust's Arab Heroes |
| Leader: Time for change in Iraq |
| Gideon Levy: The mystery of America |
| Ze'ev Sternhell: Between Agranat and Winograd |
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| October 7 |
| Devising a New Strategy for Resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
 Barham Salih: Iraq's
National and International compacts |
| Focus: The
Increased Vigilance of Radioactive Materials |
| Turkey, EU: Accession Reluctance on Both Sides |
| Russia, Bulgaria, Greece: The Pipe Dream Pipeline |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Moment for a Nuclear Test |
| Bordering on Insanity: Does the Middle East need to be
destroyed to save it? |
| Saul Singer: Rogues' game |
| Leader: Integration can't be achieved behind the veil |
| Charles Moore: My Straw poll: extremists must be seen
for what they are |
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| October 6 |
| Uri Avnery: Lunch in Damascus |
| Scene: US pledges fall on deaf Palestinian ears |
| Feature: Acclaimed documentary shows Iraq through
soldiers eyes |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Last Chance for Abu Mazen |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Attacking and Defending Annan |
| Hassan Haydar: Cloning a President |
| Charles Krauthammer: Angels and Intelligence Estimates |
| Dan Murphy: How Al Qaeda views a long Iraq war |
| U.S., Iran: Washington Makes a Friendly Move |
| Geopolitical Diary: Musharraf Gets a Warning |
| U.N.: An Increasingly Attractive Target |
| Feature: Death of a soldier: US losses mount in Battle
of Baghdad |
| Soner Cagaptay: ‘Admitting Turkey Will Be a Test of
How Secular the EU Is’ |
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| October 5 |
| Dirty Bombs:
Weapons of Mass Disruption |
| Egypt factfile |
| Chrono: Egypt's quarter century since Sadat
assassination |
| Mubarak: Egypt's new 'pharaoh' and great survivor |
| Timothy Garton Ash: Censoring Ourselves Is No Way to
Fight Terrorism |
| Analysis: Social disparities, Islamism could threaten
Egyptian stability |
| Leonard Pitts: Giving in to Islamic wrath makes us
hostages |
| Analysis: US free to take harder line than China, Russia
on Iran, North Korea |
| Gaza: A struggle among losers |
| Evelyn Gordon: The war against Islamic extremism |
| The Golan in the role of Sharm - Danny Yatom and Moshe Amirav |
| Daniel Ben Simon : All the king's mosques |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Fissures in Al-Maliki's Peace
Plan |
| Kuwait: Moving to Become an Oil Market-Mover? |
| Pat Holt: On every level, the Iraq war is hurting
America |
| Yehuda Avner: Worthy heirs of Isaiah and Amos |
| Ilene Prusher: After war in Lebanon, Israeli settlements
growing again |
| Dan Murphy: Why Egypt won't press Sudan: the Nile |
| Sara Roy: 79 Percent of Gazan Households are Living in
Poverty |
| Randa Takieddin: 'Sego' and 'Sarko' |
| Daoud Shirian: Creative Chaos Continues |
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| October 4 |
| Coptic Intellectual Analyzes Islamist's Views on
Muslim-Copt Relations |
| George Friedman: Bush and the Perception of Weakness |
| Jihad el-Khazen: 'Islamofascism' |
| Amira Hass: Not an internal Palestinian matter |
| Syria vs. Iran -- the Real War |
| Feature: Iran's last Zoroastrians worried by youth
exodus |
| Michael Rubin: To end Iran standoff, plan for war |
| Daniel Pipes: Israel in NATO? |
| Monitor's view: Out of the world winds, a new UN chief |
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| October 3 |
| Parag Khanna:
The Sons of the Fathers |
| The Kingdom’s Clock - Rachel Bronson, Isobel Coleman |
| Feature: Koranic learning embraces digital age at Iran
expo |
| Profile: The quiet diplomat who may lead the UN |
| Analysis: Muddling the al Qaeda Message |
| Venezuela, Nigeria: Empty Threats of Lower Oil Output |
| Mansoor Ijaz: End the blame game and start fighting
terror |
| Peter Grier: Iraq war draws foreign jihadists, but not
in droves |
| Aron Lund: Merger with Al Qaeda deepens threat from
Algerian radicals |
| Pope Benedict: The Repercussions Are Still Reverberating |
| Zuheir Kseibati: The 'Magic Wand' and Abu Hamza's Bomb |
| Iraq: What Secret is This? |
| Saddam in Court: Trial or TV Drama |
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| October 2 |
| Tariq Ramadan: Why I'm Banned in the USA |
| Jackson Diehl: The Big Question On Iraq |
| Robert Kaplan: To contain Iran, keep military options
open |
| John Cooley: Turkey belongs in the European Union |
| Abdullah Iskandar: Rice and Iran |
| Mohamed Ashab: A New UN Secretary General |
| Scott Peterson: In Afghanistan, US troops tackle aid
projects - and skepticism |
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| October 1 |
| 'Prince of
Marbella', Syrian arms dealer and
possibly pure evil? |
| Saudis build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq |
| Gideon Levy: Operation Peace for the Winery |
| Uzi Benziman: Is Israel a partner? |
| Feature: Gooood morning Tehran! This is Jerusalem |
| Stewart Weiss: A tale of two presidents |
| Walid Phares: Dr Zawahiri, the "Prime
Minister" of Jihadism... |
