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By Marwan Muasher - May 15,2016
A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed a sweeping consensus about what underlies many of the region’s problems: a lack of good governance.Indeed, those polled emphasised domestic problems resulting fro
By Marwan Muasher - Oct 25,2015
One day in the spring of 1989, the new prime minister, Sharif Zaid Bin Shaker, asked to see me in his office.I was working then at the Ministry of Planning, and had been writing a column on the side in The Jordan Times, “Talking Straight”, since 1982.I had also been banned from w
By Marwan Muasher - Sep 28,2014
Global debate in recent weeks has centred on US President Barack Obama’s initiative to prevent the advance of the Islamic State. But another force has emerged as an unlikely rampart against the barbaric and delusional leaders of the self-proclaimed caliphate: Lebanese plur


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