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Middle East transfer: The continuing Iranian persecution of its Ahwazi Arab population

Middle East transfer: The continuing Iranian persecution of its Ahwazi Arab population

By Nir Boms and Roee Nahmias, Henry Jackson Society, 6th September 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Over a million Arabs have been deported from the district of Al-Ahwaz, home to some eight million Arabs, in Southern-East Iran, near the Iraqi border. They have been replaced with Persian Iranians. Human rights activists in...

By Nir Boms
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May 26, 2008
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“Is Anyone Listening?”

“Is Anyone Listening?”

November 21, 2003, 9:08 By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck "The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country." With this statement, made in his November 6, 2003, speech calling for the establishment of democracy in the Middle East, President Bush galvanized...

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May 26, 2008
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Building Democracy in Iraq

Building Democracy in Iraq

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | September 11, 2003 Democracy is still a rare phenomenon in the Arab and Muslim world - and as we attempt to bring Democracy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the discussion concerning the reason for this reality triggers much attention.  George Will recently commented on...

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May 26, 2008
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Yemen’s Facade of Freedom

Yemen’s Facade of Freedom

  By Nir Boms and Erick Stackelbeck FrontPageMagazine.com | February 4, 2004 Last month, as Yemen hosted the Sana'a Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Role of the International Criminal Court-the first such event in a country long wracked by internal strife and despotism-the Bush administration was undoubtedly keeping...

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May 22, 2008
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Reform Lingo

Reform Lingo

By Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck Published July 14, 2004, The Washington Times One of the more intriguing aspects of last week's transfer of power in Iraq was the reaction it drew from neighboring governments in the region, particularly those that, traditionally, have been anything but democracy-friendly.  Iran's mullahs, for...

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May 21, 2008
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Shortwave Democracy

Shortwave Democracy

  By Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck Published June 28, 2004 Although it often seems like a solitary outpost of democratic sanity, the United States is not alone in waging the war of ideas. Since September 11, more than a dozen privately ownedpro-democracy radio stations have emerged in freedom-starved countries...

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May 21, 2008
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Syria and Tunisia: Enemies of the Web

Syria and Tunisia: Enemies of the Web

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2004 Last month, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the creation of a new group to exert control over what has remained a rare bastion of freedom: the Internet. The group's forum is the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Its 40...

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May 21, 2008
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Democracy Web

Democracy Web

  August 23rd, 2004 By Nir Boms/Erick Stakelbeck While the war on terror has left scores of Islamist terrorists worldwide on the run, there is still one place where they - or at least, their message - can find safe refuge: the Internet.  In the past two weeks alone, a...

By Nir Boms
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May 21, 2008
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On the crime of Patriotism

On the crime of Patriotism

(Kurdish demonstration in Syria) The Kurds, located in Syria, Iran, Turkey and Iraq are natural allies of the US, as illustrated by the relative stability of Iraqi Kurdistan Nir Boms and Elliot Chodoff ( Omedia, 5/12/2008) Karam Ibrahim Yousef, a Syrian blogger and a journalist, made a mistake that might...

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May 16, 2008
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Libya’s Old Tricks

Libya’s Old Tricks

By Nick Grace and Nir Boms Published December 16, 2005 Despite some positive steps taken by Libya in the past few years to normalize relations with Europe and the United States, the government of Col. Muammar Qaddafi has proven that it neither respects the fundamental rights of its citizens nor...

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May 14, 2008
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