Tag: Middle East

Threats and Conflict in the Middle East

Arena Quarterly no.11

Amin Saikal

Sep 2022

Israel’s status as a nuclear state means that the threat of nuclear proliferation is constant.

Missile Rain

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

8 Jul 2021

The United States’ enemies can no longer assume they are dealing with an erratic amateur who can be taken advantage of. Normal maintenance of a substantially extended empire has been resumed.

Lebanon’s Predicament

Arena Online

Amin Saikal

13 Aug 2020

Lebanon is in the grip of long-term instability that threatens its viability as a functioning state. This instability can only be addressed if its internal political system is fundamentally reformed and decoupled from outside powers’ interference in pursuit of conflicting regional geopolitical interests.
"The turbulent state of the Middle East

Regional Inferno

Arena Magazine no. 163

Amin Saikal

Dec 2019

The turbulent state of the Middle East
"Contrary to appearances, Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East was a tense confrontation with…

Dancing with Swords, Dancing with Stars, by Nicolas Hausdorf

Nicolas Hausdorf

27 May 2017

Contrary to appearances, Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East was a tense confrontation with two alienated allies that is bound to produce more political fallout.
"For Israel, the Palestinians have long since ceased being of any interest, let alone an…

Netanyahu in Australia: Just what is he selling? by Jeff Halper

Jeff Halper

26 Feb 2017

For Israel, the Palestinians have long since ceased being of any interest, let alone an existential threat. So what is really on Netanyahu's mind, and what are he and Turnbull really discussing?
"From the ruins of the furnished apartment...

Paris, and the Caliphate, by Maher Mughrabi

Arena Magazine no. 139

Maher Mughrabi

Dec 2015

From the ruins of the furnished apartment...
"The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the…

Introduction – Issue 43/44 ‘Making Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb’

Arena Journal no. 43/44

Jan 2015

The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the contradictions in popular understandings of the Middle East and North Africa. The place of the region in the global history of modernity has been unsettled yet again...
"In this desperately complex situation, the nature and extent of Australian involvement is effectively in…

Here We Go Again, by Paul Barratt

Arena Magazine 132

Paul Barratt

Oct 2014

In this desperately complex situation, the nature and extent of Australian involvement is effectively in the hands of just three people—Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and Defence Minister David Johnston …

Arena Publications Podcast #1: Interview With Prof. Richard Falk (16/09/13)

1 Nov 2013

An interview with Professor Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
"Much of what Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Steve Pascoe write in response to my…

Salt Responds

Arena Magazine 123

Apr 2013

Much of what Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Steve Pascoe write in response to my article is based on assumptions about how I think and how I frame events which have no relationship to how I do think or frame events.
"It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much…

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

Arena Magazine 108

Oct 2010

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our 'gifts' writes John Hinkson