Not a good year

10 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?

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

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

Normalization abnormalizes

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

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