There has, of course, been much commentary about the “re-launch” of the Middle East peace process last week in Washington. Actually, the process is, at best, an Arab-Israeli peace process. And, to be even more accurate, the process that was re-launched last week is really the highly conditioned Israeli-Palestinian “track” of old. Just giving an […]
Geography Archives: Syria
Obama’s Guantanamo
Obama brings “change” to Guantanamo Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 29 August 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the cartoon by Yoshie Furuhashi. | Print
Iran’s Nuclear Program
Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 5 January 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. | Print
Karzai and Zardari
Uncle Sam tries to batter down the door to the Taliban stronghold . . . by banging the heads of Karzai and Zardari, not his own, against it. Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 24 August 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text […]
Paltry Aid to Pakistan
Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 22 August 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. | Print
Two-State Solution
As the driver of the “settlement” bulldozer removes the ground beneath his feet while blowing “two-state solution” soap bubbles, Mahmoud Abbas daydreams about a “sovereign Palestinian state.” Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 24 June 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above […]
The Return of the Damascenes
Christa Salamandra. A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. x + 199 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21722-6; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34467-0. Christa Salamandra’s A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria is a thought-provoking analysis of one segment of the Syrian elite’s […]
Waiting for Peace
Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 8 August 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. | Print
Left Think Tank Mystifies Iran-Saudi Tensions
No one should be surprised when The Economist or another controlled opinion source misrepresents tensions in the Persian Gulf as religious rivalry while overlooking decades of U.S. and Israeli success in stoking them for imperial gain. The so-called mainstream press typically repeats unsubstantiated charges to pretend that Arab client states of Washington buy tens of […]
Who Says Iran Is Becoming Isolated in the Middle East?
We have argued for some time that the policy debate about Iran here in the United States is distorted by a number of “myths” — myths about the Islamic Republic, its foreign policy, and its domestic politics. One of the more dangerous myths currently affecting America’s Iran debate is the proposition that, through concerted diplomatic […]
Quality of Education
Ali Farzat is a Syrian cartoonist. | Print
Obama and the Islamic World
Instead of ending the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama applies a bandage of speech. Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 5 May 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the cartoon by Yoshie Furuhashi. See, also, Gareth […]
Israel, Hizballah, and Iran: Rumors of Another Regional War
August 4, 2010 Yesterday’s fighting on the Israeli-Lebanese border has intensified commentators’ already quite heightened rhetoric about the risk of another armed conflict between Israel, on one side, and some combination of Hizballah, Syria, HAMAS, and Iran, on the other side. The risk of another regional war needs to be evaluated, at least in part, […]
Military Expenditures
Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 3 May 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the cartoon by Yoshie Furuhashi. | Print
Afghanistan
In the mirror of Afghanistan, the American soldier sees the ghost of the defeat in Viet Nam. Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 3 May 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the cartoon by Yoshie Furuhashi. | […]
When the Wrong Politics Is in Command . . .
Politics, a blind piper, is followed by Economy, followed by the Media, followed by those who follow the Media. . . . Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 13 July 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the […]
Between Iran and Turkey
The decrepit Arab establishment gets jealous as Iran and Turkey woo the Arab people. Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 23 July 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the cartoon by Yoshie Furuhashi. | Print
Co-opting the Anti-Nuclear Movement
No medium of propaganda is as powerful and effective as film. Think of the classics, the most notorious efforts to sway the public with the electrifying and collective passion of cinema: racial apartheid was justified in the US with Birth of a Nation. The Soviets glorified their revolution with The Battleship Potemkin. Then there was […]
A Defining Moment of the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon
Paul Jay: One of the moments of the war that we hear, as we’ve been in Beirut, people talking about is one point during the war where Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, is making a speech and tells people to look out to the sea. Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General, Hezbollah: Now . . . […]
Iraq: Allawi or Maliki?
Iraq turns to Paul the Octopus of the 2010 World Cup fame: “Just pick the prime minister, form a government, and save us.” Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 16 July 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of […]
