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Kamal Dib
Category: Authors/Profiles
Dr. Kamal Dib is a Canadian economist and author of nine books, with research interest in Lebanon, the Middle East and Germany, kamaldib@videotron.ca. ...Tuesday, 03 August 2010 -
From Black Gold to Blue Gold – The increasing importance of hydro-politics in the Arab World
Category: Content/In Focus
... the whole, Arab countries are particularly susceptible to the effects of drought, water cuts are everyday occurrences in cities like Damascus, Amman and Ramallah, while water shortages have exacerbated ...Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Green giant
Category: Content/Headlines
Sharjah is leading the region in terms of waste management and recycling - Samer Kamal is the man making it a reality. Read Full Article ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
'We want to reform the system, not become the nineteenth sect'
Category: Content/In Focus
... these parties have either no longer played any major role in politics or have reverted to sectarian groupings, as in the case of Kamal Junblatt's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), which was reduced from ...Tuesday, 18 May 2010 -
Political Shi'ism: from engaging the state to replacing it
Category: Content/In Focus
... the form of Harakat Al-Mahrumin (Movement of the Dispossessed) in 1974 and its military wing, Amal, in 1975. The materialization of this ethno-sectarian alternative to the LNM proved instrumental in the ...Tuesday, 04 May 2010 -
Hezbollah's "Lebanonization"
Category: Content/Lebanon
... reincarnation miss the mark, and in fact have been thoroughly discredited and disproved by events. Manuela Paraipan: How so? Tony Badran: The Lebanonization theory is an amalgam of various misreadings ...Saturday, 26 December 2009 -
Lebanese Federalism and Decentralization: Its Proponents and Discontents
Category: Content/In Focus
... they, like the Sunnis, have refused federalism as a solution to Lebanon‘s problems. According to Augustus Norton, one of Lebanon‘s largest Shia parties, the pro-Syrian Amal Movement, “has ...Sunday, 25 October 2009 -
The Lebanese Political Party System
Category: Content/In Focus
... the two opposing partisan camps. The Iranian backed Party of God, with the support of the Shi’ia Amal Movement and the predominantly Maronite Free Patriotic Movement, have prevented any significant ...Sunday, 18 October 2009 -
Divided between Ideas
Category: Content/In Focus
... faction, the West, Iran, decisions on war and peace etc. They barely evaded a civil war when the supporters of Hezbollah, Amal and the Free Patriotic Movement occupied downtown Beirut. For almost two years ...Friday, 02 October 2009 -
Lebanon at a Crossroad
Category: Content/In Focus
... 2006, after the July war, Hezbollah and Amal Movement’s Shia ministers withdrew from the cabinet and demanded a national unity government where the opposition enjoys the obstructive third. As their ...Thursday, 01 October 2009 -
Lebanese economy - a hostage to local and regional politics
Category: Content/In Focus
... tourists by 2013. Dr Kamal Dib is a Canadian economist and author of 9 books, with research interest in Lebanon, the Middle East and Germany, kamaldib@videotron.ca ...Tuesday, 29 September 2009 -
The Egyptian Opposition: Not seeing the Forest for the Trees
Category: Content/Egypt
... comprised of business elites and mid-career professionals recently assimilated into the ruling establishment, has been promoting Mubarak's son, Gamal, as heir to the regime in 2011. However, the prospect ...Wednesday, 09 December 2009 -
The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Survival and Progress
Category: Content/Egypt
Manuela Paraipan: Could the guiding Islamic principles of the Muslim Brotherhood be integrated into a successful governance program? Kareem M. Kamal: There has been much criticism directed towards ...Sunday, 06 December 2009
