Month: April 2011

 

Last time I went to Frankfurt I met in the central train station by chance three persons, two men I knew long ago from Cologne and a young Continue reading “An encounter in a train station”

 

In an interview that is a well considered smokescreen, conducted by Saleh “Gadi” Johar, the captain of awate.com, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Continue reading “Meles Zenawi has some of his screws loose in awate.com”

 

Sultan Ali Mirah died at the age of 90 and was buried in Asayita on April 26, 2011, according to Ethiomedia.com. During the days of Emperor Haile Continue reading “The death of Sultan Ali Mirah”

Invitation

 

I would like to invite here all democratic minded Somalis who believe in freedom of thinking, and who are opposed to the tyrannical regimes both in Continue reading “Invitation”

His brutalities put him beyond the pale

 

When Qaddafi carried out the military putsch in 1969 I happened to be in Al Beida, attending an institute of Islamic study that belonged to the Continue reading “Mu’ammar el-Qaddafi, shame on you!”

The so-called Arab spring for youth in Syria

 

From 1970 till 1976 I stayed most of the time in Damascus. At the beginning, theBa’th party was in many ways progressive, even revolutionary by Continue reading “The so-called Arab spring in Syria”

By Lee Felten

 

Smiling into tired eyes a cup of tea is passed. It appears that something has gone wrong, and yet there are no words to convey just what that Continue reading “Trying to catch the wind”

 

By Charles Barrington

 

Turkey is finding itself in the position of unrivalled importance as regime change reshapes the face of the 21^st century Middle East. As prime minister Continue reading “Turkey may indeed come to replace Iran as Syria’s main regional ally”