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Democracy at the local level in Pakistan
By Geoffrey Weichselbaum and Katherine Vittum ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan has made significant gains…
Deconstructing Saleh
By Mai Yamani LONDON: Ali Abdullah Saleh is finished as Yemen’s president. Popular…
A PALESTINIAN VIEW: Six months to September: Returning to our references
By Ghassan Khatib Palestinians look at the approaching September deadline as a very…
AN ISRAELI VIEW: Six months to September: The wages of Palestinian ambiguity
By Yossi Alpher "I'll speak in vague sentences," stated Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…
Demographics, war for resources and state-directed capitalism
By Ron McMillan and Graham Hayward The future of the banking industry remains…
The Arab Young and Restless
By Jeffrey Sachs NEW YORK: Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the…
The many faces of the Arab Spring
By Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID: The attack by a Western-led alliance on Muammar…
26 questions Egyptians are asking
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: In an ironic numerical coincidence, 67 days after…