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Cartoon Migdad Friday 21 March 2014

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Confession of an incorrigible optimist

  • I am an optimist. Period. No ifs. No buts. No perhapses. Maybe it’s genetic....
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Discovering Sri Lanka... late

  • WE tend to discover late in life that we have been captives of misconceptions that have piled up as a result of wrong information. This information might be a mixture of rumors, half truths or complete lies. The mental picture I had about Sri Lanka was far from the truth concerning this beautiful...
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The unlikely demise of the Arab Spring

  • News of the premature demise of the Arab Spring, the spontaneous wave of mass protests calling for regime change and political rights, are greatly exaggerated. Those who believe that the phenomenon is over and done with rest their prognosis on a number of factors. Since the contagion reached...
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Myanmar: Suu Kyi beacon of a new era

  • IN any contest, the obvious winner is rarely ever the only winner. This is often lost sight of in the moment of euphoria. The overwhelming victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 45 by-elections to Myanmar’s Parliament has other winners, too.Myanmar’s...
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Tumultuous Israeli politics

  • Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election. However, there is little reason to believe that any major transformations in the Israeli political landscape could be of benefit to Palestinians. Former...
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ICC must not resort to selective justice

  • After 420 days of trial (over nearly four years), 115 witnesses, over 50,000 pages of testimony, and 1,520 exhibits, Charles Taylor, warlord-turned-president of Liberia, was found guilty on 11 counts by the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone.Taylor was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against...
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Algeria’s Islamists bank on Arab Spring

  • The Algerian legislative elections which are taking place today will probably bring some happy news for Islamist parties in the country. The Islamists’ victory in the post-revolution Tunisia and Egypt and their formation of a coalition government in Morocco might encourage some Algerian voters to...
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Algeria’s Islamists bank on Arab Spring

  • The Algerian legislative elections which are taking place today will probably bring some happy news for Islamist parties in the country. The Islamists’ victory in the post-revolution Tunisia and Egypt and their formation of a coalition government in Morocco might encourage some Algerian voters to...
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Gatekeeper Editors: Custodians of the truth?

  • Shaping world events is usually left to politicians, but shaping responsible public opinion is the mandate of a fair and ethical media. A fair and ethical media does not camouflage its story in bias or preconceived notions, or distorted truths… nor does it serve its own interests or that of its...
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