Could Turkey really go to war against Syria? If it were to do so, Ankara would need to find a…
Year: 2012
Videos and reports from Syria over the past week show that Bashar al-Assad’s forces continue to violate the ceasefire outlined…
In her March 29 op-ed, “Why not try Abu Zubaida?,” lawyer Amanda L. Jacobsen argued that the reason the federal…
Pity Ali Shaaban for the hypocrisy that surrounded the reactions to his death. From Hezbollah we heard that the cameraman’s…
Saudi Arabia’s ruling clique is dying off, and it may be up to the new defense minister to guide the…
The Israeli legal system desperately needs an important new law, and this electoral law must include a very ‘patriotic’ clause…
It has been a busy few weeks for the Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. On Wednesday he dodged a bullet—in…
BRUSSELS – Recently, the human-rights activist, former Dutch politician, and Somali exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote about a global war…
What a shock it must have been for Kofi Annan to realize that the Syrian regime and opposition agree over…
New Republic, March 31, 2012 A year into the Syrian uprising against Bashar Al-Assad, the dysfunctional nature of Syrian opposition…
Given Lebanon’s deep political divisions and traditional subservience to Damascus, the West should not expect too much help from Beirut…
Israel’s occupation fills an ancient Mideast need for evil: Among other things, the Arab-Israeli conflict serves as a tool of…
One year has passed since the onset of the Syrian Revolution, caused by the accumulation of continued corruption and authoritarian…
[ in-depth ] Between downtown Beirut and Corniche al-Mazraa is a densely populated area where Sunnis, Shiites, and Druze live…
By Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand With his wealth, diplomatic skills and Al-Jazeera television network, Qatar’s Emir Hamad Al Thani…
You have to wonder what the Maronite Church and the Vatican were thinking when they replaced the old but smoothly…
Hizballah’s response to military action against Iran could be shaped by rational cost-benefit analysis, a perceived spiritual obligation to defend…
Tunisia is everyone’s favorite Arab country nowadays, the one where the Arab Spring started and that has the best chance…
During the decades of international sanctions against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, successive U.S. administrations yearned for regime change. The hope was…
Bashar Assad, who is continuing to massacre Syrian civilians, is not only the president of an important country in that…
Christians in the Middle East are worried. Worried about their survival in a region where they have lived for 2,000…
Hamas’s no-longer-undisputed leader Khaled Mashaal is now in deep trouble. He’s having difficulty finding a new home after leaving Damascus,…
The following article published by the Iranaian opposition website “ROOZ” does not render justice to Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy to…
The cries that rise up from across the border are growing stronger. Therefore, despite all the objections and the limitations,…
The administration of President Barack Obama has often been ridiculed for what it describes as “leading from behind.” More often…
America’s hypocritical friendship with Saudi Arabia: Just as Obama said to Mubarak a year ago, ‘Now is now,’ we expect…
Indirect intervention in Syria is less sure to succeed than direct intervention, but it may be more doable, giving the…
By MARGALIT FOX Ed Ou for The New York Times Mr. Shadid spent most of his professional life covering the…
South Lebanon- This time, the reaction of Lebanon’s Shiite population to Hassan Nasrallah’s new speech on Syria’s insurrection, now in…
Although Ayatollah Khamenei has given no signs of imminent departure from the political scene, both the confrontational nature of his…
Since President Obama came to office, unconditional engagement with Iran has been official U.S. policy and total rejection of engagement…
The only possible explanation for the conduct of China and Russia is the desire to prevent a Western ‘takeover’ of…
The elections taking place today are but one episode in the incremental transformation and democratization of Kuwait. On February 2,…
The growing Free Syrian Army, the armed wing of the popular rebellion, is playing an increasing role in determining the…
President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening had much to say about the economy, but relatively little about…
The Sunni University, a guide for the World Islamic world, offers some guidelines for the world born after the “Arab…
This is the revised version of an article that was scheduled to appear in the second print edition of Egypt…
On January 23, Egypt’s first post-Mubarak legislature will be seated. The lower house of parliament, known as the People’s Assembly,…
On January 18, conservative Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari announced and Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast confirmed that President Barack…
MeTransparent Exclusive Syrian authorities, recently, released Mustapha Setmariam Nasar al-Suri, a native Syrian with a Spanish passport who had been…
By Associated Press CAIRO — The head of Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent institute of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world,…
This past week several British parliamentarians were in Beirut to learn more about the situation in Lebanon and Syria. They…
The feeling of euphoria on winning parliamentary elections in several countries in the Arab world has resulted in spokesmen for…
Iran’s bellicose rhetoric and Gulf wargames in recent days have given rise to the question of whether Tehran could close…
CAIRO – The self-immolation a year ago of Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi triggered a wave of popular protests that…
‘A spectre is haunting Europe,” wrote Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto, “the spectre of communism.” The…