Barbara Smith

Articles by Barbara Smith

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King of the shifting sands

  • 29 November 2007
  • 19 comments

Caught at the volatile crossroads of the Middle East, Hussein of Jordan kept his desert kingdom together with charm, courage and guile.

Peace in our times

  • 13 March 2006

The People on the Street: a writer's view of Israel Linda Grant Virago, 214pp, £9.99 ISBN 1844082547

Life of exile

  • 31 January 2005

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah diaries Suad Amiry Granta Books, 194pp, £12.99 ISBN 1862077215

America's next target

  • 18 October 2004

By keeping the rest of the world guessing about its nuclear capacity, Tehran has raised talk of war to dangerous levels in Washington and Tel Aviv

Palestine - How the chance of peace slipped away

  • 12 July 2004

Negotiations - A decade ago, the leaders of the two sides shook hands on the White House lawn, and a settlement seemed within reach. Where did it all go wrong?

Palestine - Back to ethnic cleansing?

  • 12 July 2004

The future - As attitudes harden, the region faces terrible possibilities, including population transfer

The men of war

  • 26 April 2004

Barbara Smith judges that the chances for Arab-Israeli peace are as bleak as they have ever been. Yet this dispute over a tiny bit of land - which resonates from Morocco to Pakistan - ought to be easily resolvable

As the death toll rises, a region holds its breath

  • 19 April 2004

Iraq - Jordan fears a backlash against its support of America; Syria worries about economic sanctions for its anti-US stand. The Middle East feels jittery, reports Barbara Smith

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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