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		<title>Triumphant over Who?</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/05/03/triumphant-over-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That Hezballah (Party of God) shall be triumphant&#8221; (فإن حزب الله هم الغالبون) as their slogan says. But triumphant over who? Throughout the years, Hezballah’s raison d’être has expanded and contracted with the fluctuating winds of its geopolitical, strategic, confessional &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/05/03/triumphant-over-who/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=699&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Official Hezballah Flag: &#34;That the Party of God shall be triumphant. Islamic Resistance of Lebanon.&#34; </media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Graffiti on the walls of Beirut, a play on the Hezballah&#039;s official slogan: &#34; Freedom: That the People shall be triumphant.&#34; Courtesy of @MoNajem.</media:title>
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		<title>Shukran Qatar</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/04/09/shukran-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the world has had much to thank Qatar for in recent years. And if you haven’t been thanking it, check your closest government office, local opposition force or ailing business conglomerate for details. One of them is sure to &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/04/09/shukran-qatar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=665&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">“If, one day, a people desires to live, then Qatar will answer their call.&#34; The original version of Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi’s poem notes &#34;“If, one day, a people desires to live, then fate will answer their call.&#34;</media:title>
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		<title>حان وقت التغيير &#8211; The Time has Come for Change</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/03/31/%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88%d9%82%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%8a%d8%b1-the-time-has-come-for-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ملاحظة: هذه المقالة قد نشرت لأول مرة في جريدة النهار في 28-03-2013 Note: this piece was first published in Lebanese daily An Nahar on March 28, 2013. You will find an English translation below. ان ثمة شعارات ومواصفات لتحديد لبنان &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/03/31/%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88%d9%82%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%8a%d8%b1-the-time-has-come-for-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=655&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraq War: Ten Years and Counting</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/03/20/the-iraq-war-ten-years-and-counting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and Iraq continues to bleed. One would have hoped to mark this occasion with a glimmer of hope that things on the ground were moving towards better times, but they are not. &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/03/20/the-iraq-war-ten-years-and-counting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=650&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>الغاضبون هم هنا</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/28/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ba%d8%a7%d8%b6%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%85-%d9%87%d9%86%d8%a7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;هذه ليست أزمة، إنها خدعة.&#8221; &#8220;نحن لا نفتقرالى المال. المشكلة ان اللصوص عندنا كثيرون.&#8221; &#8220;من حقّنا ان نكون غاضبين. &#8220; هذه الشعارات- الصرخات وغيرها تزامنت مع فترة ركود اقتصادي ,تزايد البطالة , سياسة التقشف, مشاعر يأس عميقة، فكان أن خرج &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/28/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ba%d8%a7%d8%b6%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%85-%d9%87%d9%86%d8%a7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=631&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Indignants Are Here</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/27/the-indignants-are-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“This is not a crisis, this is a fraud.” “We don’t lack money, we just have too many thieves.” “We have the right to be indignant.” With these and many other slogans, at a time of recession, unemployment, austerity and &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/27/the-indignants-are-here/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=617&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Today’s Headlines: The Tragicomedy of Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/20/from-todays-headlines-the-tragicomedy-of-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the flurry of events of the past 24 hours, my only pair of hands unable to type out all the ideas, the amazement, the frustration and laughter inspired by the latest developments, I thought I’d still try to put &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/20/from-todays-headlines-the-tragicomedy-of-lebanon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=607&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Hanna Gharib and Nehmeh Mahfoud. Source: The Daily Star, Mohammad Azakir</media:title>
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		<title>The Politics of Finger Pointing</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/12/the-politics-of-finger-pointing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We just want to remind people, for those who don’t know what is secularism, secularism doesn&#8217;t mean being against God, secularism is just the separation between religion and state, secularism makes all citizens equal before the law with the same rights, secularism &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/02/12/the-politics-of-finger-pointing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=587&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Middle East Strategy: A Brief Commentary</title>
		<link>http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/01/13/obamas-middle-east-strategy-a-brief-commentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent events in the Middle East seem to dictate that, at least in the short and medium-terms, America’s hopes of turning increasingly towards Asia in the 21st century do not seem to be anywhere near coming to fruition.  And if &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/01/13/obamas-middle-east-strategy-a-brief-commentary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=571&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Turkish Model for the Middle East?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when many argued that democracy was incompatible with the Muslim-majority countries of the Middle East, the Turkish democratic model was always used as the ultimate example to the contrary. Developed in the backdrop of a ruthless military &#8230; <a href="http://eyeontheeast.org/2013/01/06/what-turkish-model-for-the-middle-east/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eyeontheeast.org&#038;blog=22913148&#038;post=562&#038;subd=eyeontheeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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