It is hard to say what Roman Filiu s hometown is. Probably, the best way to explain it is that he was born in Cuba but raised in music. After graduating from the Higher Institute of Art in Havana and ...

'The UAE does not want its strategic partnership with Israel to depend on Benjamin Netanyahu' The United Arab Emirates is refusing to confirm a planned visit by the Israeli prime minister this spring, ...

From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy. By Jean-Pierre Filiu. Oxford University Press; 311 pages; $24.95. Hurst; £15.99. THE Arab spring unleashed more ...

French academic lays bare the machinations of the ‘security mafias’ behind the Arab counter-revolutions and their ‘evil twin’ of militant jihadism “If you think you understand Lebanon, you haven’t ...

Jean-Pierre Filiu, a widely acclaimed French historian of the Middle East/West Asia is better known for his masterly tome on the history of Gaza, where towards the end of that book he reiterates his ...

Before Hamas, before Hezbollah, there was a time when the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel made a deal: Israeli weapons for Iranian oil. Yes, the new regime had called the Jewish state ...

Drummer Dafnis Prieto created the Dafnison Music label as a means to control his own work and get his forward-thinking recordings into the hands of the public on his own terms. That, however, doesn't ...

Gaza's horrifying death toll does not include indirect victims of Israel's offensive Palestinians who have died from being unable to be evacuated and a lack of medical care are not included in the ...