Zvi Bar'el is the Middle Eastern affairs analyst for Haaretz Newspaper. He is a columnist and a member of the editorial board. Previously he has been the managing editor of the newspaper, the correspondent in Washington and has also covered the Occupied Territories.
Bar'el has been with Haaretz since 1982, and has written extensively on the Arab and Islamic world. In 2009, he was awarded the Sokolov prize for lifetime achievement in print journalism.
Bar'el has a Ph.D in the History of the Middle East. He teaches at Sapir Academic College and is a research fellow at the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as at the Center for Iranian Studies.
The PA's main prayer on Id al-Adha should be: "Allah, let us not be like Iraq and Afghanistan, which were pledged much and which received only a tiny amount, and let us not be like Lebanon, which was given a lot of money at the Paris conference after the war but cannot receive it because it does not have a parliament to approve the budget."
0 commentsDespite all the polite talk about democracy, no one at the conference mentioned the desperate situation in Iraq, Lebanon's political impasse or Saudi Arabia's poor human rights record.
0 commentsMove shows Arab states recluctant to leave handling of Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Washington, J'lem.
0 commentsAs the summit approaches, 'moderate' Arab states are still on the fence about the extent of their participation in the U.S. initiative.
0 commentsThe level of officials Arab countries send to the upcoming Mideast peace conference is vital to its success.
0 commentsAbdullah's visits to Europe showed the U.S. that Saudi Arabia has other friends. In the Middle East, too, the kingdom is carving out a more influential role for itself.
0 commentsOne may conclude that Nasrallah has received a solid Israeli commitment that prisoners will be released.
0 commentsAre the Muslim communities living in the Mediterranean basin different or less threatening than those elsewhere in the world? And what will be the fate of the West's attempt to create a kind of European Middle East?
0 commentsIran air force: Retaliation plan ready if Israel strikes Iran; Egypt rejects strike against Iran, looks to normalize ties.
with Yoav Stern 0 commentsFor $12,000 a book, few works are translated into Arabic and Kurdish
0 commentsAs it reaches the final round in Turkey's presidential elections, the religious ruling party considers the Kurds its natural allies. But it has had to tone down part of its platform.
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