Hassan Mneimneh

The writer is Principal, Middle East Alternatives, Washington DC. (Exclusive to The Daily Star.)

“TARGETING FREE THINKERS”

In just over two years, Bangladesh has lost five dynamic, assertive, free thinkers to gruesome acts of deliberate violence.

9y ago

IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA

THE airstrikes undertaken by a Saudi-led coalition against targets in Yemen may usher a new phase in one of the longest, most destructive, and most confused conflicts to affect the Middle East and much of the Muslim world: the Saudi-Iranian confrontation.

9y ago

Hypocrisy and Orange Jump Suits: ISIS as a Mirror

Apologists, in the cause of shielding Islam from depravity practiced in its name, may discount the evident relationship between the

9y ago

How to defeat ISIS

Many months and thousands of airstrikes after the US Administration proclaimed its intent to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the

9y ago

The“Arab Spring”that is no more

FOUR years after the abdication of long-time Egyptian autocrat, President Husni Mubarak, in what seemed a watershed moment in recent history, the“Arab Spring -- a succession of popular uprisings in Arab countries -- seems depleted, defeated, and reset to zero.

9y ago
May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015

“TARGETING FREE THINKERS”

In just over two years, Bangladesh has lost five dynamic, assertive, free thinkers to gruesome acts of deliberate violence.

April 23, 2015
April 23, 2015

IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA

THE airstrikes undertaken by a Saudi-led coalition against targets in Yemen may usher a new phase in one of the longest, most destructive, and most confused conflicts to affect the Middle East and much of the Muslim world: the Saudi-Iranian confrontation.

March 25, 2015
March 25, 2015

Hypocrisy and Orange Jump Suits: ISIS as a Mirror

Apologists, in the cause of shielding Islam from depravity practiced in its name, may discount the evident relationship between the

March 15, 2015
March 15, 2015

How to defeat ISIS

Many months and thousands of airstrikes after the US Administration proclaimed its intent to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the

February 24, 2015
February 24, 2015

The“Arab Spring”that is no more

FOUR years after the abdication of long-time Egyptian autocrat, President Husni Mubarak, in what seemed a watershed moment in recent history, the“Arab Spring -- a succession of popular uprisings in Arab countries -- seems depleted, defeated, and reset to zero.

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