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...politicians and dissidents, from Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, to Lebanese composer and intellectual Ziad Rahbani and US diplomat and former senator John...
...As Kim Ghattas, fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics, wrote in the FT two weeks ago, “every attempt to wipe out Palestinian armed groups has only produced more extreme iterations...
...In that contest, AfD was the only German party to produce campaign materials in the Russian language, as the British specialist John Lough writes in his first-rate book, Germany’s Russia Problem....
...Plenty, writes Kim Ghattas, from political disruption in Israel to deepening unrest in Iran and economic crisis in Egypt....
...The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton, Simon & Schuster, RRP£25/$32.50, 592 pages Badly written and lacking in humility, shame or self-awareness, Bolton’s is nonetheless the best...
...Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East, by Kim Ghattas, Headline £20 Kim Ghattas’ telling of the cultural and religious transformation of the Arab and Muslim world...
...Some highlights: Monday: Andrew Hill on business Tuesday: Martin Wolf on economics Thursday: Maria Crawford on fiction Friday: John Thornhill on technology Saturday: Critics’ picks Difficult Women:...
...In Black Wave , veteran FT and BBC Middle East reporter Kim Ghattas explains how the region began unravelling in 1979, when Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran became bitter enemies (Wildfire RRP£20/Henry Holt...
...The following day Pope Francis will canonise two 19th-century Palestinian nuns, St Marie Alphonsine Ghattas and Mariam Bawardy, at a ceremony in St Peter’s Square....
...In John Kerry, Obama has a new secretary of state. And the president no longer needs to seek re-election. We shall see....
...the head of John the Baptist....
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