Category Archives: Middle East

Ecology’s ‘nuclear winter’

Posted on 23/08/2014 by Marjan

With accumulating bitterness and a sense of isolation on both sides in the Gaza conflict, combined with changing regional political tectonic plates as well as world opinion, the option of a nuclear strike will by osmosis have crept up the … Continue reading →

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Ecology and the A-Bomb: Israel

Posted on 17/08/2014 by Marjan

The ‘rubbleisation’ of parts of Gaza brings into focus that great ‘known unknown’ of the Middle East: Israel’s nuclear weapons programme. In fact, putting aside issues such as radiation and the ‘nuclear winter’, the result of Israel’s bombing made a … Continue reading →

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Bird’s eye view of Middle East

Posted on 13/12/2012 by Marjan

In his recent book, ‘House of Stone’, Anthony Shadid, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, goes back to his ancestral Lebanese roots to rebuild an old family home (in a bizarre and sad twist of fate Shadid, … Continue reading →

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Water adds to M East woes

Posted on 16/11/2012 by Marjan

In the light of current hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians ‘climate-change’ is probably not the most pressing issue for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza; however, the climate risks are significant and will compound the current hazards caused … Continue reading →

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Libya links arms to traffickers

Posted on 17/09/2012 by Marjan

Recent research by the Small Arms Survey (1) in Libya shows four distinct types of non-state armed groups operating post-Gaddafi: revolutionary brigades, unregulated brigades, post-revolutionary brigades, and militias. More specifically the report, by Brian McQuinn of the Centre for Anthropology … Continue reading →

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Climate change: growing threat as Middle East simmers

Posted on 26/07/2012 by Marjan

While climate change is not the most pressing issue for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the climate risks are sig­nificant and will compound the current hazards caused or aggravated by the Israeli occupation. As confirmed by recent United … Continue reading →

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