It’s been 10 days since Pope Benedict XVI left Beirut, but his portraits still hang along Lebanon’s roads. That is…
Year: 2012
By Asrat Seyoum The world’s prominent whistleblower website, Wikileaks’s, latest release revealed that the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 that went…
On April 4, 2012, Lebanese forces Leader Samir Geagea escaped an assassination attempt when shots were fired at his residence…
Ankara is re-embracing its old allies in Washington at the expense of Tehran and Damascus. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or…
It never ceases to amaze how Arab eyes are forever on the lookout for some manifestation of Western hegemonic intent…
From Sana to Benghazi, Cairo to Casablanca, new jihadist groups have adopted the same name in recent months. Is it…
Washington should work closely with Amman, providing alternatives to rash changes that some will advocate as a way to stay…
Islamist extremism is limited in Libya, but it could grow if no action is taken against those responsible for recent…
Only with significantly greater cohesion in the United States and Israel will Iran’s leaders even consider accepting a compromise on…
“I ask myself, how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city…
Islamist extremism is limited in Libya, but it could grow if no action is taken against those responsible for recent…
METransparent Exclusive: The High level security officer who recently died in a Moscow hospital, was not the head of Syria’s…
The Oslo Accords were merely a trick, a deception. The Israelis sought to maintain the occupation, while the Palestinians sought…
Given its growing control over key government institutions and its unmatched mobilizing capabilities, the Muslim Brotherhood will likely remain Egypt’s…
An inside look at Egypt’s new president suggests that Washington will have to adjust to a troublesome new status quo.…
METransparent Exclusive In the most dramatic clash, up till now, between international Jihadi fighters and the rebel Free Syrian Army,…
Daraya Coordination Committee Press Release Robert Fisk’s report about the massacre of Saturday 25/08/2012 On Wednesday 29 August 2012, Mr.…
Saudi Arabia’s aging leadership is in transition, potentially hindering Washington’s policies on Syria and Iran. This morning, King Abdullah of…
One of the unintended consequences of the Arab Spring has been the PKK’s reemergence as a player in Iran-Syria-Turkey relations.…
Ayatollah Khamenei is taking credit for Iran’s supposed ascendancy, giving the West an opportunity to show that the disastrous ramifications…
The decision-maker is trying to kill two birds with one war. The first is neutralizing the threat from the north…
Overview Lebanon’s Sheikh Hassan Mchaymech “disappeared” on July 7, 2010 while crossing the Lebanese-Syrian border in an incident that represents…
President Morsi’s upcoming visits to Beijing and Tehran indicate that Egypt’s foreign policy orientation is shifting away from the West.…
Washington must act promptly to ensure that turmoil in Syria does not weaken U.S. allies in neighboring Lebanon. On August…
(Beirut, August 20, 2012) – The Lebanese authorities should investigate and prosecute those responsible for the reported kidnapping of dozens…
As the Syrian conflict intensifies, the area under full government control continues to shrink; the question now is the speed…
The Arab rebellions which began in December 2011 pressured the monarchies to offer reforms and changes. Although the monarchies have…
This weekend, Egypt’s Islamist president Muhammad Morsi unilaterally amended the interim constitution that had been approved by 77 percent of…
Two of Lebanon’s most prominent shiite clerics, Seyyed Mohammed Hassan el Amin and Seyyed Hani Fahs, both from South Lebanon,…
The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are united in their belief in God and the Prophet Muhammad and are bound together…
By supporting the massacres in Syria over the past sixteen months, Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah engendered the hatred of millions…
One of the mysterious subtexts of the current uprising in Syria is how the Alawite community will react once they…
Time has come to say these things loud and clear: I do not have the slightest shred of sympathy for…
Metransparent Exclusive Syrian sources speculated that discussions for the formation of a transitional government in exile have taken a concrete…
Metransparent Exclusive Highly placed Libyan sources, which requested not to be named, revealed to Metransparent that the winner of Libya’s…
Based on the information we have, I think the picture is as follows: July 18: bomb explosion in Damascus July…
Academics, intellectuals, science, arts and letters professionals, we support Tunisian academics committed to the defense of academic freedoms in their…
Abu Ibrahim is a big bear of a man in his early forties. He wears flip-flops and a T-shirt and…
The Nobel Prize for Peace Laureate Ms. Tawakkol Karman calls upon the Yemeni President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi to speed…
Saudi Arabia is bringing back its most talented operator to manage the Arab Spring. But can Bandar stem the rot…
The impressive electoral performance of nominally liberal parties in Libya is being widely portrayed as a setback to Islamist political…
Given the situation along the border and the risk of a Kurdish insurgency, a unilateral Turkish foray into Syria would…
An explosion occurred last Wednesday in the National Security Headquarters in Damascus, killing some pillars of the Syrian regime including…
We can take it as a given that for as long as Michel Aoun can take a full breath without…
Earlier today, on the 18th anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a…
Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, Washington has repeatedly demanded that President Bashar al-Assad desist from employing the most…
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Lebanese Intelligence sources said that the (presumably Israeli) surveillance drone which had hit ground near the village…
Sometimes the use of the oriental imagination is needed like air to breathe. I have often argued that attributing oriental…
Violence in eastern Saudi Arabia and continuing tension in Bahrain are reminders that Gulf oil exports face other threats besides…
The Tlass family were once acolytes of the Assad dynasty, but as the regime crackdown targeted their fellow Sunni clansmen,…