Occasional musings on software development, tech, the Middle East, and anything else.
Close to half a million Syrians have died in the Syrian Civil war since 2011. In Aleppo alone, since 2012, over 100,000 Syrians have been killed. As of 2015, the UN puts the estimate of civilians killed by the Syrian regime at 250,000. Other estimates range from 150,960 to 470,000. More Arabs have been killed by Bashar Al-Assad since 2011 than by Israel since 1948. More Arabs have been killed by…
Imagine you are among the first settler colonial humans to discover extraterrestrial life. You have landed somewhere in a distant planet, disembarked, and were going about your daily tasks as you encounter the first signs. Some seemingly sentient, intelligent creature approaches you. It looks different, nothing like you or anyone you've seen, not even like a reptile or sea creature. It approaches…
Since its beginnings, the Arab-Israeli Conflict has been through several phases of distinctive characteristic foreign policies, political attitudes, and strategies. Through a number of monumental defining events—including the major wars—shifts in policies, strategies, and attitude took place, marking transition between these phases. In this essay, I argue that the climate of the Arab-Israeli…
Prelude I have been thinking about this one for a while. You see, I am very interested in regional politics ("region" here comes from the Latin " to Middle East "...), and I like to read about it in as many places I could, including blog posts of course, and I often comment when I feel compelled to share or add. But I dislike exaggerated points and wrong facts, logical fallacies, an unfounded…
This took a good portion of my energy for the past month, and discusses the history of political development, and its lack thereof, in Jordan. It is rather long, but nevertheless, if you have a comment or something to say, then at least more than the abstract. Abstract This paper discusses the development of a political system in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in an effort to understand the…
