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Adil FaouziThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Am I a Mossad agent? I ask because the coincidences have reached a density that even I find unsettling, and in a region where coincidence is never...
On Friday last week, as American bombs fell within earshot of Ferdowsi Square, Iran staged one of those spectacles of performative defiance that...
The collapse of the Islamic Republic – if it comes – does not automatically deliver Iran into the hands of Reza Pahlavi, and the assumption that...
I came across earlier this week the headline “Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Used White Phosphorus in Lebanon” published by Human Rights Watch and...
There is a cruelty even more refined than bullets and barrel bombs – the cruelty of keeping an entire people suspended in permanent victimhood...
If you are among those mourning Khamenei this week and waving Iranian flags from the comfort of an Arab capital, consider the following inventory of...
Although we may disagree – and disagree profoundly – with Erdogan’s Turkey, a state that has elevated geopolitical opportunism to an art form,...
There is a doctrinal comedy unfolding across the Arab world this week that would be amusing if it were not so grotesque in its hypocrisy. As Iranian...
When the Mossad launched a Farsi-language Telegram channel on Saturday morning – hours into Operation Roaring Lion – and addressed Iranians as...
On Saturday night, the Islamic Republic of Iran confirmed what hours of silence had already telegraphed: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of...
The Arab world has a selective memory so finely calibrated, so surgically precise in what it retains and what it discards, that it amounts not to...
There is a question the Arab world has never answered, because the Arab world has never been asked – or more precisely, because the infrastructure...
I studied mass communication in Qatar – a country routinely described as a heaven for journalists, though the description has always struck me as...
As Ramadan descends upon the Muslim world this week, millions of hands will reach for the same ritual fruit – the large, amber-fleshed, honey-sweet...
There is a particular irony – one that deserves to be stated plainly and without apology – in the fact that the same intellectual class most eager...
Ramadan begins today. Across the Muslim world, nearly two billion people will turn toward Mecca in the predawn darkness, whisper the niyyah of...
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a...