Bestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right... and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.
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As Hizbullah sides with its brutal backers in Damascus, are the Shi'ite movement's days numbered or can it regain its popularity and credibility?
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As Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail again, it is time to build a New Canaan of diversity, tolerance and peace based on reimagined identities.
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Is Egypt on the road to theocracy or will it manage to build a secular, pluralist democracy?
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Islamists are not all Osama bin Laden and secularists are not all Atatürk . They can work together to achieve democracy.
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Although alcohol is 'haraam', Muslim societies have rarely managed to stay on the wagon, and vital parts of their culture have developed under the influence.
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On the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East.
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Only self-hating Arabs and Jews can save the Middle East from itself.
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No Muslim in their right mind would support far-right Christian groups in the West, though they may well symathise with their Muslim equivalents elsewhere.
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Egyptian atheists and religious sceptics are a minority that exists in reality but not in official statistics.
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