Not a good year

9 years ago

Kosova Sot, a Pristina daily, asked for a year-end review, published in Albanian. Here is what I sent : Today…

What difference does Ramadi make?

9 years ago

Headlines today suggest that Iraqi security forces have retaken government buildings in the center of Ramadi, which fell to the…

The end is nigh, once again

9 years ago

Two years ago I published a post with this title. Remarkably little has changed since then in many conflicts: South…

The UN leans forward

9 years ago

The UN last week leaned forward on two important conflicts. The Secretariat went ahead with a Libyan peace deal, despite…

Rocking the female Saudi vote

9 years ago

On Thursday, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW) hosted a panel discussion, ‘Women and Elections in Saudi Arabia’,…

Glad to be left out of a dubious category

9 years ago

I'm in Amman, talking to people about southern Syria. This is a counterpart to my visit to Gaziantep, near the…

Opposition turmoil

9 years ago

Since our last post on the situation in northern Syria, everything has changed and nothing has changed. The world has…

Normalization abnormalizes

9 years ago

Drilon Gashi* and Ard Morina** prepared the following post. It should not be understood to represent my own views. As…

Peace picks, December 14-18

9 years ago

Reflections on Global History in the 20th Century: Towards a New Vision for the 21st Century | Monday, December 14th | 2:00-5:00 |…

Over the low bar

9 years ago

I could easily cheer the climate change agreement reached yesterday in Paris: it is the first to gain universal adherence,…