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The Hanoudi Letter: My Journey, From Mosul to Michigan |
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Monday, 26 November 2007 19:31 |
I owe my friends and colleagues and the visitors of The Hanoudi Letter website a big apology for not telling you anything about what I am going to talk about today. I am very sorry for my negligence, I am sure you understand. It has not been from audacity or disrespect, but because of the troubles and continuing frustrations I had had during the last few months of staying Amman, which came to an end when we were told by the people who were processing our application for resettlement in the United States that we have been accepted and we were scheduled to leave on November 14.
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The Middle East: The Boiling Cauldron, A New Flash Point |
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Friday, 26 October 2007 20:52 |
In my July 17, 2007 posting to this blog titled “The Middle East: A Boiling Cauldron”, I tried to elucidate on the seriousness and volatility of the situation in this extremely vital part of the world which is also very unstable and explosive concentrating on three countries in the region that are seething with conflict violence and polarization: Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. The situation in the holy Land is still highly inflamed threatening the emergence of two mini Palestinian states, one faction of them Fattah are talking to the Americans and the Israelis before the meeting next month in Annapolis, which is rejected by Hamas. The Lebanese are still haggling over the election of a new president who should be acceptable to all factions in that badly torn country, an exercise which should have been completed by the 23rd of this month but has been postponed to November 12. The failure to elect a head of state with such credentials threatens the emergence of two competing presidents and two governments with very serious and nightmarish consequences. The third member of this triad Iraq is still in a very bad shape every thing there is worse than it was few weeks ago, Iraq is disintegrating and decaying the people are impoverished and insecure and are fleeing the land in the tens of thousands every month, but as if all that was not enough the border area between turkey and Iraq which has been the site of a very long conflict between the Turks and the PKK suddenly exploded creating another very serious flash point in a highly explosive cauldron.
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 17:37 |
Interview of Dr. Hanoudi on NPR in April of 2007: NajibHanoudi-NPR.mp3
PowerPoint file of rare pictures from Iraq from the 19th and 20th centrury: Iraq1888_1960.pps
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The Hanoudiletter: The Story of My Friends, the Tomas |
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Saturday, 22 September 2007 08:38 |
Updated on September 25, 2007
This blog has been dominated since its inception by postings about the current situation in Iraq. In the beginning I said that I would be talking about certain subjects which are of a special interest to me like history, ethno-religious conflicts and geopolitics, but with the incredible changes which were taking place in Iraq after the 2003 war I started to do a lot of writing on the Iraqi situation which was already very serious and deteriorating rapidly. The current situation at home has dominated this work because of its increasing complexity and the dangers it is posing to its people especially those who are still there and have not joined the millions who are living in exile. The Iraqi mess has developed into an extremely multifaceted and a terrible nightmare, which is defying all attempts at explaining or analyzing which is deterring me from writing about. But as I have very often pontificated on this website the Iraqi mess has a certain dynamics of its own which constantly attracts you to it, last month's events in Iraq, the almost total collapse of the political system, the incredible deterioration of the security situation and the story of the Blackwater security agency have attracted me to it again. I am writing today about the astonishing story of my friends the Toma family.
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