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Antoine Basbous

Antoine Basbous is the founder and director of the Observatory of the Arab Countries of Paris. Author of L’Arabie saoudite en guerre (Saudi Arabia at War).

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“A complete dead-end and a foreseeable decomposition”

by Antoine Basbous

14 September 2005

The future of Iraq seems dark. It could rapidly turn into a platform to export chaos to the region and a sanctuary for Al Qaeda. Today, regardless of the fate of the constitutional draft, Iraq exhibits all the elements necessary for the outbreak of a civil war. Tensions among ethnic and (...)

“The return of radical Khomeinism”

by Antoine Basbous

15 July 2005

The great merit of the Iranian elections was the transparency. The arrival of Mahmud Ahmadineyad to power has meant nothing but the continuation of the real holder of power, ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The president of the Republic is just the “façade” of the regime. Iran is a particularly (...)

“Lebanon’s Difficult Recovery”

by Antoine Basbous

15 June 2005

The murder of Samir Kassir, a brilliant intellectual and fighter for freedom in an Arab world, which so much represses this value, plunged Lebanon into mourning. A participant in the “Beirut Spring,” Kassir paid little attention to actions of terror carried out by Syrian-Lebanese security (...)