Hamas – Lawrence Pintak

Arab Media Wars: Hamas, Fatah and the Arab Media World

January 23, 2009 by Lawrence Pintak Leave a Comment

ABU DHABI (Jan. 23, 2009) – Surf the blogs in the Arab world and you find a common theme: the Bush administration has blindly supported Israel’s Gaza war and the U.S. media has been shilling for “the aggressors.” Ask the average American and it’s a good bet that you will hear the opposite view: Arab governments […]

Filed Under: Arab Media Tagged With: Al Jazeera, Arab journalism, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, journalism, Pintak

Caught between Iraq and the hard guys (The Daily Star Lebanon)

February 28, 2006 by Lawrence Pintak Leave a Comment

February 28, 2006 The visit to the Middle East last week by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought with it another reminder that American Middle East policy is firmly wedged between Iraq and the hard guys. There were never any easy answers to the Middle East morass, complicated further by the recent outbreak of […]

Filed Under: Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Public Diplomacy Tagged With: 911, Arab media, Arabs, Beirut Hostage Crisis, Condoleezza Rice, democracy, Egypt, Hamas, Islam, Lebanon, Muslims, Palestine, political reform, Transformational diplomacy, U.S. Middle East policy, USAID

U.S. Middle East policy: Between Iraq and the hard guys (Daily News Egypt)

February 23, 2006 by Lawrence Pintak Leave a Comment

First Published: February 23, 2006 This week’s visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brings with it another reminder that U.S. Middle East policy is firmly wedged between Iraq and the hard guys. There were never any easy answers to the Middle East morass. Washington’s drunken lurching in search of exactly that […]

Filed Under: Iraq Tagged With: Al Arabiya, Condoleezza Rice, Damascus, diplomacy, Egypt, Gulf, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Islam, Muslim, Tehran, U.S. Middle East policy, USAID

Political Islam’s Democratic Face (CommonDreams.org)

March 23, 2004 by Lawrence Pintak Leave a Comment

Published on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 by CommonDreams.org Even as militant Islamists from Spain to Pakistan command headlines, the White House once more inflames Muslim opinion, and the Bush administration continues its effort to reinvent the Middle East in America�s image, proponents of moderate political Islam are quietly but effectively developing the template for democratic […]