The only region in the world without a security framework must at long last set about the task of creating one
The Middle...
Tags: future of the Middle East, Global Brief, Iran's nuclear program, Israel's nuclear program, Middle East peace, Middle East security, Middle East security order, regional integration, regional security framework, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, security architecture for the Middle East, WMFZ for the Middle East
Marie Lavoie
âŠles langues de la Chine, si lâon rĂ©fĂšre au poids dĂ©mographique important et grandissant de leurs locuteurs....
Tags: Abbasid caliphate, BBC, berbĂšres, British Broadcasting Corporation, Chinese, clash of civilizations, ClĂ©ment Duhaime, Fadi El Abdallah, freedom of information, Global Brief, Great Firewall of China, Indo-European language, Islamic empire, Islamic Golden Age, la Chine, la colonisation, la Cour pĂ©nale internationale, La langue arabe, la langue du Coran, la rĂ©gion arabe, la Turquie, langues sĂ©mitiques, le Conseil de coopĂ©ration du Golfe, Le français, LĂ©opold SĂ©dar Senghor, Ligue des Ătats arabes, lâAl-Andalus, lâAsie centrale, lâIran, LâOrganisation internationale de la Francophonie, Marco Polo, Marie Lavoie, most important language, Ottoman, Persian, Qiang Zhang, rise of China, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Samuel Huntington, Seljuk
In the days to come, the world will come to learn whether the Republic of Sudan â Africaâs and the Arab worldâs largest...
Tags: China, civil war, Comprehensie Peace Agreement, Dinka, Egypt, John Garang, Juba, Khartoum, Lamu, oil, Omar al-Bashir, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, secession, South Sudan, South Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, SPLM, Sudan, Sudan referendum, The National Congress Party, UN Mission in Darfur
In a 2009 interview with GB, Louise Arbour, former UN Human Rights Commissioner and current President and CEO of the International...
Tags: 1955 Congress of the People, Africa's future, African National Congress, Afrikaans, Afrikaans Medium Decree, Albert John Lutuli, Apartheid Museum, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Banki Moon, colonialism, democracy, freedom, Freedom Charter, Global Brief, Hastings Ndlovu, Hector Pieterson, Hector Zollie Pieterson Museum, International Crisis Group, International Mandela Day, Johannesberg, Johannesburg, liberty, Lilyan Ngoyi, Louise Arbour, Mandela Day, Mandela Square, Martti Ahtisaari, national unity, National Youth Day, Nelson Mandela, President Obama, reconciliation, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Santdon, Security Council, South Africa, South African economy, South African integration, Soweto, Soweto Uprising, Stephen Bantu Biko, UN Human Rights Commissioner, United Nations General Assembly, Walter Sisulu
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
âŠplay a defining role in instigating peace in the Middle East and moving the region forward toward democracy...
Tags: 1979 Revolution, abuse, Bill 94, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, crimes contre lâhumanitĂ©, democracy, des crimes de guerre, development, discrimination, discriminations Ă lâĂ©gard des femmes, Fatoumata Dembele Diarra, femmes dans les pays en dĂ©veloppement, gender equality, Global Brief, human rights, International Criminal Court, Iranian women, Islamic Republic of Iran, James Radner, Kofi Annan, La polygamie, legal reform, Mehrangiz Kar, Middle East, Nathalie Des Rosiers, niqab, Nobel Peace prize, partriarchy, peace, rape, rationality, reason, religious intolerance, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, School of Public Policy and Governance, sĂ©curitĂ© et lâintĂ©gritĂ© physique, sexual violence, Shirin Ebadi, Sirleaf-Johnson, tyranny, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, University of Toronto, women in the 21st century, womenâs movement, womenâs rights, womenât movement in the Middle East
A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
Tags: Afghanistan, African Union, Al-Shaybani, Arab states, Asia, Avicenna, Caucasus, Central Asia, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, democracy, Economic Cooperation Organization, economic development, European Court of Human Rights, European Union, fertile crescent, geopolitical strategy, Global Brief, Hirad Abtahi, human rights, Ibn Haiyan, International Criminal Court, Iran, Israël, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Khwarazmi, League of Arab States, Mediterranean Union, Middle East, NAFTA, Organization of American States, Pakistan, peace in the Middle East, regional court for human rights, regional security, rule of law, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road, strategic calculus, supranationalism, Treaty of Kadesh, Treaty of Paris, Turco-Persian agreements, Turkey, UN Charter, Union of South American Nations, Union: Union
What will Iran look like in 10 years?
Trita Parsi
What will Iran look like in a decade if we continue to put the nuclear...
Tags: 1979 Revolution, Ahmadinejad, Alidad Mafinezam, and How to Win A Cosmic War, China, Global Brief, Green Movement, Iran, Iranian civilization, Iranian democracy, Israel and the United States, June 2009 elections, liberty, military dictatorship, No God but God, Persian Constitutional Revolution, Peter Jones, political reform, Revolutionary Guard, Reza Aslan, rule of law, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Shah, Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Trita Parsi
Iran is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But what of the over three million Iranians outside Iran?
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Tags: Alexander of Macedon, Alhazen, BahĂĄâĂ faith, brain drain, Cyrus the Great, diaspora, Esther and Modechai, Global Brief, Iran, Iran-Iraq war, Iranian brain drain, Iranian business, Iranian civilization, Iranian democracy, Iranian diaspora, Iranian history, Iranian immigration, Iranian Jews, Iranian migration, Iranian refugees, Iranian revolution, Islamic Republic, Mongol invasions, Pahlavi Dynasty, Parsis, people's diplomacy, Persepolis, Persian, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Tehran, Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism
August 19th marked the 56th anniversary of the Anglo-American-orchestrated coup dâĂ©tat of 1953 that deposed Prime Minister...
Tags: 1953 Coup, American foreign policy, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, coup, Global Brief, Iran, Iran's nuclear program, Madeleine Albright, Maya Angelou, Mossadegh, National Front of Iran, nuclear, President Obama, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, US-Iran relations
Today, the Iran question has two critically important facets. The first is the domestic political situation in Iran, precipitated...
Tags: 1979 Revolution, Barack Obama, Benjamin Disraeli, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Cyrus Cylinder, Fereiydoun Hoveyda, Global Brief, Hamas, Henry Kissinger, Hezbollah, ICC ratification, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Criminal Court, Iran's nuclear program, Iran-Iraq war, Iran; ICC; nuclear; Obama; IAEA; Mousavi, Iranian elections, Islamic law, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Rome Statute, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Sassanid Persians, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, US-Iran relations
