With no competing bloodlines or public rivalries, Jordan’s royal family has traditionally avoided the high-profile arrests, purges and coups experienced by other monarchies in the Middle East.
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Little Wars The author reflects on his own connection to a 1982 film about Lebanon’s civil war that continues to resonate today.
The first time we see Nabil Srour, the war photographer, chronic liar, and part-time drug dealer affectionately known as Abou el Nobol, he is running across sniper fire in Beirut to get American journalist Mitch Dubin “the shot he needs.” Nabil (played by Nabil Ismaïl) is one of three main characters in
Little Wars (1982), by Lebanese filmmaker Maroun Bagdadi (currently available for streaming on Netflix). Bagdadi is perhaps Lebanon’s best-known director, a cinematic chronicler of the nation’s debilitating civil war (1975–1990) who committed himself to the subject in all of his five features. In effect, Bagdadi’s filmic project
The Arab world after the ‘Spring of 2011’
To label political upheaval of early 2011 as the “Arab Spring” turned out to be the wrong metaphor for the Arab world
The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank
In 2021, the youth in the Middle East will be observing the tenth anniversary of what came to be called the “Arab Spring of 2011”. That was when tens of thousands of young people gathered in public squares of the region demanding to play a role in the way they were governed. The immediate inspiration behind the expression of their discontent was the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi who, haunted by the officialdom of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, set himself on fire. “How do you expect me to make a living? he shouted before dousing himself with petrol in front of the governor’s office. His protest was aimed at official corruption. Local officials had confiscated his fruit cart because he did not have the lic