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by Giora Eliraz, Nir Boms - Fikra Forum, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy ABOUT THE AUTHORS The Religion 20 (R20) Forum that took place in Bali last November deserves attention, if only for the fact that it was initiated and hosted by two significant Islamic actors, commonly perceived until recently...
Happy to share the below conversation, a special episode of SEPADPod where Dr. Simon Mabon from the Richardson Institute speaks with Dr. Aziz Alghashian and myself about Saudi-Israeli normalization. According to him, this might be the first podcast of its kind, bringing Saudi and Israeli scholars together! Aziz is...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=posjEC4uZtA&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Guests: 1. Dr. Nir Boms; Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center – Tel Aviv University 2. Dr. Eldad Pardo; Iran Expert – Hebrew University of Jerusalem Analyst: 1. Amir Oren, TV7 Analyst On the 2nd of January, Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Muslim Shi’ite leader sending a strong message...
Dec. 14, 2009 NIR BOMS and NOAM IVRI , THE JERUSALEM POST 'I am writing from the other side of the ocean to inform you that after my graduation I won't be returning" wrote Saudi student Layla (a pseudonym) to her family, in a letter published in the Saudi newspaper...
Friday, December 12, 2003 By: Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck In his three-and-a-half years as Syrian President, 38-year-old Bashar al-Assad has been called many things by U.S. officials. Misunderstood is not one of them. Yet, if Assad's recent comments to the New York Times are any indication, the U.S. has...
Article published Mar 7, 2008 By Nir Boms An important, yet underreported, summit took place recently in Riyadh. Turki K. Al Sudairy, a Saudi minister and president of the Saudi Supreme Human Rights Commission and Pakistan's federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney, conducted a series of high level meetings...
By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | December 10, 2004 "Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able," reads an open letter to the Iraqi people currently posted on the Internet. Issued by more than two dozen Saudi scholars and preachers on November 6, the letter calls on...
4/21/2004 By Nir Boms and Erick StakelbecK Under the auspices of the United Nations and the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, representatives from 14 Muslim countries gathered in Istanbul on April 12-14 to discuss implementing democratic reforms in the Middle East. While it came as no shock that...