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Adil Faouzi

Adil Faouzi

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Am I a Mossad agent?

Am I a Mossad agent?

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...

yesterday 30

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Adil Faouzi

Saddam also walked the streets of Baghdad before they found him in a hole

Saddam also walked the streets of Baghdad before they found him in a hole

On Friday last week, as American bombs fell within earshot of Ferdowsi Square, Iran staged one of those spectacles of performative defiance that...

monday 20

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Adil Faouzi

Iran is not the West’s to assign

Iran is not the West’s to assign

The collapse of the Islamic Republic – if it comes – does not automatically deliver Iran into the hands of Reza Pahlavi, and the assumption that...

13.03.2026 30

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Adil Faouzi

HRW is gospel when it condemns Israel and garbage when it condemns Arabs

HRW is gospel when it condemns Israel and garbage when it condemns Arabs

I came across earlier this week the headline “Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Used White Phosphorus in Lebanon” published by Human Rights Watch and...

12.03.2026 40

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Adil Faouzi

If Israel didn’t exist, Arabs would have invented one

If Israel didn’t exist, Arabs would have invented one

There is a cruelty even more refined than bullets and barrel bombs – the cruelty of keeping an entire people suspended in permanent victimhood...

08.03.2026 30

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Adil Faouzi

If you are Muslim and mourning Khamenei, here is what his regime did to your country

If you are Muslim and mourning Khamenei, here is what his regime did to your country

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...

08.03.2026 40

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Adil Faouzi

Iran cannot beat Israel so it is punishing the Middle East for existing nearby

Although we may disagree – and disagree profoundly – with Erdogan’s Turkey, a state that has elevated geopolitical opportunism to an art form,...

05.03.2026 40

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Adil Faouzi

For Sunni Arabs, Iran’s Shia become Muslim only when they attack Israel

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...

03.03.2026 60

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Adil Faouzi

Persians freed the Jews, and now the Jews are freeing Persia

When the Mossad launched a Farsi-language Telegram channel on Saturday morning – hours into Operation Roaring Lion – and addressed Iranians as...

02.03.2026 40

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Adil Faouzi

Israel and America killed Khamenei, but killing a leader is not killing a regime

On Saturday night, the Islamic Republic of Iran confirmed what hours of silence had already telegraphed: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of...

02.03.2026 40

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Adil Faouzi

Palestinians Get Hashtags Only When the Bullet Is Israeli

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...

27.02.2026 50

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Adil Faouzi

Arabs colonized lands from Iraq to Morocco, then accused Jews of colonialism

There is a question the Arab world has never answered, because the Arab world has never been asked – or more precisely, because the infrastructure...

25.02.2026 60

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Adil Faouzi

What writing for the Times of Israel taught a moroccan journalist

I studied mass communication in Qatar – a country routinely described as a heaven for journalists, though the description has always struck me as...

22.02.2026 30

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Adil Faouzi

It’s ‘Mejhoul,’ Not ‘Medjool.’ It’s Moroccan, Not Israeli.

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...

21.02.2026 50

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Adil Faouzi

The ‘West Bank’ Is a Colonial Name. It’s Time to Say So

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...

19.02.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adil Faouzi

So What Does Ramadan Look Like in an ‘Apartheid State’?

Ramadan begins today. Across the Muslim world, nearly two billion people will turn toward Mecca in the predawn darkness, whisper the niyyah of...

18.02.2026 50

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Adil Faouzi

Valentine’s Day: Palestine’s Greatest Love Poem Was Written for an Israeli

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a...

17.02.2026 100

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Adil Faouzi

Moroccans March for Palestinians Who Are Better Paid, Better Educated Than They Are

01.02.2026 60

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Adil Faouzi

Muslims Die in Iran, Sudan, and Yemen, Yet the World Only Protests for Palestine

30.01.2026 70

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Adil Faouzi

Before Scofield, Before Herzl, Christianity Has Always Been Zionist [2/2]

07.01.2026 30

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Adil Faouzi

Normalization with Israel Should Not Require Missionaries

16.12.2025 20

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When Hassan II Rejected the Illusion That Guns Create States [3/3]

14.12.2025 100

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Adil Faouzi

When Hassan II Declared Arabs Were the Gravediggers of Their Cause [2/3]

12.12.2025 70

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Adil Faouzi

The Morocco-Israel Tripartite Bargain at Five Years

10.12.2025 50

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Adil Faouzi

When Hassan II Urged Israel’s Entry Into the Arab League [1/3]

09.12.2025 30

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Adil Faouzi

1948: Two Suns Over One Land

13.11.2025 30

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Adil Faouzi

You Can’t Be Antisemitic If You’re Semitic

28.10.2025 50

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Adil Faouzi

Morocco-Israel Embassy Transition Would Mark Historic Milestone

22.10.2025 30

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Adil Faouzi

The Eighth ‘-Stan’ the Arab World Won’t See

09.10.2025 30

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Adil Faouzi

Spain Condemns Israel While Occupying Moroccan Land

28.09.2025 50

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Adil Faouzi

We Do Not Believe in God, but He Nonetheless Promised Us Palestine

24.08.2025 90

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Adil Faouzi

Middle to Whom? East of What? Decolonizing the Map Inside Our Words

23.08.2025 90

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Adil Faouzi

Greater Israel: Theology as Cartography – Cartography as Catastrophe

17.08.2025 70

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Adil Faouzi