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A Selecting Stones Review of 2011, and a Warm Welcome to 2012
by the Scientific Editors of Selecting Stones It goes without saying that 2011 has been an eventful year. One crisis after another. We could get into all the details, but let’s try to keep this short, instead, because the past is in the past, and the future is what matters. The Arab Spring, perpetual economic […]
The Owl of Minerva flies high over Wasilla, Alaska
May 26, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon As the most common interpretation of Middle Eastern history goes, the Arab countries’ defeat in the 1967 war with Israel marked the beginning of the end of secular Arab nationalism, and the subsequent rise of radical Islamism. The events of 1967 were a crushing defeat for the secular Arab regimes. For some […]
The Owl of Minerva flies high over Cairo
April 29, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon The Arab Spring gives way to the Arab Summer as events escalate — to put it mildly — in Syria. This year in which we’re living, 2011, has already proven itself to be an eventful one, and who can know how the rest of the year will take shape? The Arab counties […]
The End of the Third World as we know it
February 28, 2011
by Dawn Occidere I despise REM, but now that I have your attention… It started in Tunisia, it moved to a new stage—with the aid of cell-phone cameras and satellite dishes—in Egypt, and now here it is in Libya, in its most violent form. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that Qadhafi would do what […]
December 31, 2011
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