Zaki Chehab

Articles by Zaki Chehab

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Letter from Gaza

  • 29 January 2009
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Death and destruction have been visited on Gaza, but the real target is stronger than ever. Hamas has arms and international support. Israel, Obama and the west must learn to deal with it

Iraq: no end to the suffering

  • 06 December 2007

News of improvements in Iraq's security situation is sadly exaggerated, writes Zaki Chehab

The new pariah state

  • 21 June 2007

Hamas showed its strength in forcing Fatah from Gaza. But will it turn the desperate strip into a new Afghanistan?

Gaza: The jailed state

  • 28 May 2007
  • 48 comments

The world cannot afford to stand by while the Israeli army and Palestinian militias fight their unwinnable and bloody war.

Sunni v Shia

  • 12 February 2007
  • 8 comments

The clash between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the greatest cause of strife across the Arab world. Here - as part of our special issue on Islam - Zaki Chehab explains the deep-lying roots of the turmoil

Looking for the spirit of hope

  • 18 December 2006

Christmas around the world: Lebanon

Al-Qaeda: Britain in its sights

  • 21 August 2006

For Osama Bin Laden there is nowhere quite like Britain. Not only are we the loyal, vulnerable partner of his arch-enemy, but there is no shortage of young Britons ready for martyrdom. All he has to do is train them and point them at targets

War - Who can stop it now?

  • 24 July 2006
  • 1 comment

Bush and Blair give the green light for more Israeli strikes. Syria and Iran back Hezbollah. As the Middle East explodes, Zaki Chehab, an authority on Hamas, reveals where the real power in the region lies - and the only chance for lasting peace

Al-Qaeda: still a step ahead

  • 03 July 2006

Why the organisational skills of Osama Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri continue to outwit the west

They ask, we ask: was it worse under Saddam?

  • 20 March 2006

Kidnappings, power cuts, sectarian hatred, medical shortages, petrol queues, intimidation of women and a mass exodus of talent: all part of life in the new Iraq

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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