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An Arab Like Edward Said

 
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—America had not seen an Arab like him before. Recent American presidents have witnessed his piano sessions in the nation’s capital. And America’s academia has been mesmerized by his provocative books. And above everything else, he was also a respectable musicologist. But every night, Edward Said went to bed in his New York City [...]

An Arab Like Edward Said

 
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—America had not seen an Arab like him before. Recent American presidents have witnessed his piano sessions in the nation’s capital. And America’s academia has been mesmerized by his provocative books. And above everything else, he was also a respectable musicologist. But every night, Edward Said went to bed in his New York City [...]

RAW & Mossad: The Secret Link

RAW & Mossad: The Secret Link

Among the threats RAW and Mossad identified were the military relationship between Pakistan and China and North Korea, and the fact that Pakistan trained Libyan, Iranian and Syrian army officers on using Chinese and North Korean weapons.

The Reusable Arafat

 
Middle East’s oldest survivor has suddenly become dispensable. But if Israel doesn’t expel him this time, he may have one last use left in him.
 
 
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— He’s been known to be cunning, shrewd, and a survivor with nine lives. But in recent years Yasser Arafat has added one more title to his accolades: Reusable.
 
Arafat is known [...]

Modern Iraq: A Paradise For Political Theorists

 
Not since the fall of the Ottoman Empire has the Middle East seen such intense power politics as witnessed in Iraq today
 
 
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— Turkey, and not Saudi Arabia, has been the traditional patron of Iraq’s Sunni Muslim ruling elite for the past few centuries. When Iraq emerged as an independent kingdom in 1921, Baghdad’s leading [...]

The Reusable Arafat

 
Middle East’s oldest survivor has suddenly become dispensable. But if Israel doesn’t expel him this time, he may have one last use left in him.
 
 
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— He’s been known to be cunning, shrewd, and a survivor with nine lives. But in recent years Yasser Arafat has added one more title to his accolades: Reusable.
 
Arafat is known [...]