Ramzy Baroud

The Price of Betraying Palestine: Moroccans Challenge Normalisation with Israel 

RAMZY BAROUD TWO years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered “Joint Declaration”, thus officially recognising Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab countries...

On Football, Opium and Popular Resistance: Not All Sports Are Created Equal 

RAMZY BAROUD MY friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the...

Lions’ Den is Not a Fleeting Phenomenon: On Palestine’s Looming Armed Revolt

RAMZY BAROUD JUST when Israel, and even some Palestinians, began talking about the Lions’ Den phenomenon in the past tense, a large number of...

Xi’s Visit and the Future of the Middle East: What Does China Want from the Arabs

RAMZY BAROUD THE problem with most Western media’s political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that are...

On ‘Hate’ and Love at the World Cup: Palestine is More Than An Arab Cause

RAMZY BAROUD WE were mistaken to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external subject,...

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