"Through the study of President G.W. Bush administration's policy in the Middle East, with the Iraq War (2003) in first place, Hichem Karoui attempted to meet the challenge of providing us with a comprehensive monograph, full of actors and networks of relationships and institutions involved in the "making up" of American foreign policy. He neglected nothing: the clubs of neoconservatives, the intellectual elite, the various lobbies, including the Arab and the Israeli, the networks of entrepreneurs and businessmen, the military, etc." Burhan Ghalioun. "The author presents his subject with an...

This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that followed the downfall of Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Ali Abdullah Saleh? What about the neighboring countries? How did the contagion occur? Is the revolt still expanding? Will it reach other...

Pendant huit ans (de 2000 a 2008), on nous a dit et repete que tout ce que l'administration Bush a pretendu et fait (de la lutte contre l'axe du mal a la campagne anti-terroriste internationale, et de la guerre preemptive ou preventive a la democratisation du Moyen-Orient par tous les moyens...etc., ) trouve sa source dans l'ideologie morale des neoconservateurs qui cherchent a rendre le monde meilleur, et a moraliser la vie politique nationale et internationale, notamment par une renovation des valeurs (conservatrices) americaines et par un engagement plus actif vis-a-vis des problemes...

Shaman Show is the first in a series of poems, originally written in Arabic in the second part of the XXth century, by a mysterious author who has appeared for the first time on the literary scene, in Beirut (Lebanon), under the pseudonym: Buraq. Hence, the title he gave himself to this collection: -Buraq Writes The Galaxy's Dream.- We know little about the poet, except that he lived in several countries of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East... Buraq may still be writing poetry or prose. But he does not wish to be identified or recognized... A complete description of his life...