After a fleeting moment of Muslim Co-operation in the 1973 War with Israel, Ibrahim Moiz examines how inter-state rivalries and seeking US patronage led to the dissipation of the Palestinian cause. Unity Squandered by State Selfishness: The International Aftermath of the 1973 War with Israel October 2023 marked fifty years since the most signal feat...
Ibrahim Moiz looks back on a rare moment of Arab and Muslim unity in Yom Kippur War against Israel in 1973. The Autumn 1973 War with Israel: Redemption and Realignment Judaism’s holiday of Yom Kippur in the year 1973 happened to fall within the Islamic month of Ramadan. Early on that morning, the Israeli occupation...
It would be an understatement to say that the six-year stint of Qamar Bajwa as Pakistan’s army General was eventful. Bajwa’s role as arguably Pakistan’s most powerful man included four prime ministers and several political crises, ending with the army’s carefully polished reputation over decades in tatters. He was not the first army commander to...
Syed Ibrahim Moiz reflects on the Sabra and Chatila massacres 40 years on (September 2022) Vilification and incrimination against foreigners, particularly in days of desperation, are not new phenomena. Yet even by these standards, the Lebanese war saw a moral nadir forty years ago this month, when far-right Maronite militants reacted to the assassination of...
As crisis after crisis grips Muslims around the world, from mayhem in the Levant and massacres in West Africa to genocidal state-backed violence in South and East Asia, it has become common to hear calls for the Muslim ummah, or community of believers, to respond. Disasters and challenges are by no means unique to our...
This month marks seventy years since a seminal moment in modern Middle Eastern history: the military coup in Cairo of July 1952, which replaced a corrupt monarchy with the military rule that has continued, virtually uninterrupted, since then. With the brief exception of Mohamed Morsi’s elected government in 2012-13, every Egyptian government since has been...
There’s more than one way, as they say, to skin a cat. Having suffered a public humiliation of rare proportions with the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan in summer 2021, the United States is resorting to more distant but potentially more effective ways of weakening the Afghan emirate. Where a military occupation proved unable to build...
