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SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Dividing the Spoils in Lebanon Sami Moubayed, the indomitable, has this to say about the latest on the Lebanese Cabinet slice up. According to the Doha Agreement, the March 14 Coalition, which commands a parliamentary majority, will hold 16 of the cabinet's 30-seats (including the sovereign post of Minister of Finance). The opposition will have 11 (including [...]
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SyriaComment (Free subscription) | yesterday
Samir al-Taki's talk at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC, July 23, 2008Summarized by Joshua Landis The three-man delegation of Syrians which is visiting Washington spoke at the Brookings Institute today. They are Dr. Sami Moubayed (Academic, jounalist), Samir Saifan (Economist, businessman), and Samir al-Taki ([Taqi] medical doctor and head of Syria's leading...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
After waiting for its chance for years, in a matter of minutes at the weekend Syria resumed diplomatic ties with Lebanon and France and made it abundantly clear that Damascus is central to solving most problems in the Middle East. France also emerges from these breakthrough developments with credit, having stuck to a line independent of the United States. - Sami Moubayed (Jul 14, '08)...
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Shariah Finance Watch (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Iranian film hits raw Egyptian nerveBy Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - A new film from Iran, Assassination of a Pharaoh , tells volumes about how strong indoctrination is in Tehran and how much it sometimes overpowers and blinds pragmatism. The movie, which recently aired on Iranian TV, is about former Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat. It labels [...]
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Cairo is seething over a film from Iran depicting former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat as a "traitor" for signing the 1978 peace accords with Israel. The spat comes at the height of Iranian efforts to win allies in the Arab and Muslim world, both to penetrate the array of pro-American states in the region, and use them to lobby against a possible Israeli attack. - Sami Moubayed (Jul...
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Sami Moubayed reports that Iran has begun "digging 320,000 graves for American soldiers scheduled to fight in Iran" — Tehran puts on a show of strength . Iranian General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh sais this was "to reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against, and prevent the repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War." "New arguments by analysts...
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Main and Central (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
"That old, eh, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran... Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah ...." Sen. McInsane, (19 APR 2007) I'll never listen to that song in the same way again... I'd like to tie in several bombshell revelations that has arisen of late. Such as Sy Hersh's , Joby Warrick's , Sami Moubayed's , Scott Ritter's , Emptywheel's , and, some of my older posts. The underlining...
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SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... In that article you talked about the university library with no reference books. I contacted Dr. Sami Moubayed and offered him my book collection (about 450 books all in English) covering the M.E., World history and current affairs. Also, I offered to supply the university with text and reference books. Dr. Moubayed came back with a list of what the university needs and I was...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
*Jun 21, 2008 * By Sami Moubayed Thanks to the patronage of Iranian heavyweights like Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, is the man most likely to challenge...
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American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... of the oil windfall, but the manner of the heft, puts Adhmadinejad’s political future in doubt, as Sami Moubayed reported on this site on June 21 (’President’ Larijani: A star is born). Changing the man at the top, however, is no cure for fecklessness of Central African proportions. Underneath Iran’s imperial ambitions and messianic pretensions suppurates a pre-modern patronage system...
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Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... the oil windfall, but the manner of the theft, puts Adhmadinejad's political future in doubt, as Sami Moubayed reported on this site on June 21 ('President' Larijani: A star is born). Changing the man at the top, however, is no cure for fecklessness of Central African proportions. Underneath Iran's imperial ambitions and messianic pretensions suppurates a pre-modern patronage system...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Thanks to the patronage of Iranian heavyweights like Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, is the man most likely to challenge President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in elections next year. Unless, that is, Ahmadinejad can reverse his sliding fortunes by turning the economy around. - Sami Moubayed (Jun 20, '08)
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Iraq Takes A Turn Towards Tehran By Sami Moubayed June 17, 2008 Courtesy Of Asia Times Online DAMASCUS - A popular Iraqi joke speaks of an aged man who marries a young girl many years his junior, called Mana. Whenever he visits his young bride, she complains that his long beard has become too white, and plucks out its white hair. The next day, he visits his first wife Hana, who is his...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has suddenly started to play hard ball with Washington over the United States' long-term presence in Iraq. Torn between appeasing the US, which brought him to power, and pleasing his patrons and fellow Shi'ites in Tehran, Maliki is bowing to the latter, with ominous consequences. - Sami Moubayed (Jun 16, '08)
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Everything was going to be just fine after Lebanon's fractious politicians reached a landmark agreement last month. But beyond managing to elect a president, little else has been achieved, even the dream of a unity cabinet is fast receding. - Sami Moubayed (Jun 11, '08)
