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  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (November 12)

    Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (November 12)

    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week`s roundu..

  • Caught Shopping While Iranian: Diasporic Solidarity and the Globalization of Collective Punishment

    Caught Shopping While Iranian: Diasporic Solidarity and the Globalization of Collective Punishment

    In recent years, the Iranian New Year, Norooz, has become a fairly predictable time for US presidents to gesture towards “dialogue” and mutual respect between the United States and the Iranian people, while criticizing the repressive policies and nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republi..

  • Israel's Hypocrisy on a Nuclear Middle East

    Israel's Hypocrisy on a Nuclear Middle East

    When world leaders packed their bags and headed home last week, there was one lingering memory of the General Assembly’s high-level debate: Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic presentation of a cartoonish nuclear red line, which hit the front pages of most mainstream newspapers in the United States.

  • Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran

    Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran

    Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu seemed inspired by the Road Runner cartoons, Glenn Beck and Reverend Gene Scott. The bizarre, almost hand drawn, “bomb” in one of his hands was complemented by the red marker in another: man enough, Bibi suggested, to draw his own red lines. He does not need the Ameri..

  • Covering Iran's Ninjas

    Covering Iran's Ninjas

    On the evening of 29 March, a line in my twitter feed read, “You don’t want to mess with Iran’s lady ninjas.” Cara Park’s snarky comment had been retweeted by someone I follow in Cairo. I clicked her

  • War Talk: The Obama Administration and Iran

    War Talk: The Obama Administration and Iran

    “Let there be no doubt,” President Obama declared in his 2012 State of the Union address. “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.” The comment drew a rousing and sustained standing ovation from the US Co..