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Oct 2, 2021, 2:55 PM

Two Stars and a Brand New Horizon

A picture taken on October 13, 2017 shows a view of a street in the "Mellah" Jewish quarter of the Médina in Marrakesh. Marrakesh is seeing its fortunes revived as visitors including from Israel flock to experience its unique...

Jan 4, 2020, 5:38 PM

Hadji Qasem: A whole cult blown away

An enemy of peace and humanity vaporized In the aftermath of the killing, the world experienced an after-effect akin to the assassination of the high-ranking German SS Reinhard Heydrich in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia one fine morning of...

Dec 17, 2019, 5:38 AM

Tamim’s intellectual slaughterhouses

“ I am surprised, quite frankly, at how explicit the relationship is between money paid, papers published and policy makers and politicians influenced.” Amos Jones, a Washington lawyer specialized in the foreign agents act. When you’re on the payroll of...

Dec 14, 2019, 5:49 PM

Erdu-Gun on the loose

With a Turkish military base entrenched in Qatar, the Saudis and the Emiratis, after losing many of their adventurous wars across the region are no longer safe from hearing that eager Turkish shrill of “SURPRISE!” type echoed resonantly throughout the hot...

Dec 12, 2019, 12:45 AM

Triumph of the Wealth

Enjoying the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is like enjoying pasta with blood.

Dec 7, 2019, 10:25 PM

A crescent and a score of stars

After almost 100 years since its disintegration—the restoration of the Ottoman caliphate is vividly materializing. The only surviving cult from the residues of the last century’s ideologies which curiously managed to preserve itself and stay vivid and relevant—precisely because it...

Dec 2, 2019, 4:31 AM

The upcoming Islamic revolution

It’s not an easy task to describe how that intricate propaganda machine is unceasingly manipulating the masses. But the methods of recruitment and preparations are as diverse and all-encompassing as to take into account every detail that touch upon...

Nov 18, 2019, 1:17 PM

Double Discourse

As George Orwell put it in his 1984 novel: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory...

Nov 14, 2019, 12:23 PM

The new aura emerging from the geopolitically-alterable and ever-changing Middle East points to a return of the Arab states to their previous stance on Israel after a short period of bold and public openings that at a certain moment...

Oct 22, 2019, 10:47 PM

Strike while the iron is hot

If Iran, with all its bloody and sectarian history in the Middle East, all its appalling acts of barbarism and constant conspiracies, not to mention the fervent antipathy between Pan-Arabism and Persian nationalism, and the long lasting effects of...

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Taha Lemkhir is a Moroccan writer and photographer. Degree in Arabic literature and Islamic studies. Critic of Islamism. languages: Arabic, English and Spanish. He Lived part of his life as an Islamist— until enlightenment flashed through his heart.

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