Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

UK Economists are warning that this decade is set to be the worst in more than 200 years for British pay packets . (FT)

"Revival of Iraqi communism among youth alarms Shiite militias"

The American way of war is a budget-breaker

" Ferocious oppression by the Egyptian and Israeli authorities has produced a new generation of fighters, motivated more by a thirst for revenge than by ideology." Egypt: Sinai's undeclared war

"We are not the dirt we clean"

Mahmoud Darwish: Mural

"For forty years the Israelites wandered in the Sinai wilderness before reaching the Canaanite border, where Moses died, but his lieutenant, Joshua, led the Israelites to victory in the Promised Land, destroying all the Canaanite cities and killing their inhabitants.
  The archaeological record, however, does not confirm this story. There is no evidence of the mass destruction described in the book of Joshua and no indication of a powerful foreign invasion. But this  narrative was not written to satisfy a modern historian; it is a national epic that helped Israel create a cultural identity distinct from her neighbors."  — Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood - Religion and the History of Violence , 2014, pp. 104-5 The role of "myth" in nation creation?