Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer and the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Payam Akhavan is a founder…
Month: November 2013
Despite all the fanfare that greeted its arrival Saturday night, the “first step” deal between world powers and Iran is…
The Atlantic So, how are the Saudis reacting? That’s the question on many people’s lips now that world powers have…
In late 2011, Turkey, hoping to help oust the Assad regime in Syria, began to arm members of the Syrian…
One’s evaluation of the nuclear deal depends on how one understands the broader context of US-Iranian relations. There are potential…
The blockbuster nuclear deal reached early Sunday morning in Geneva between Iran and the U.S.-led coalition (see http://washin.st/192SgPM) is both…
President Obama is hailing a weekend accord that he says has “halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program,” and…
lukmanlubowa@yahoo.co.uk I am ugandan i want a woman for marriage, am 46 and i want a woman between 35 to…
By MATTHEW KAMINSKI ‘The U.S. has to have a foreign policy. Well-defined, well-structured. You don’t have it right now, unfortunately.…
A president desperate to change the subject and a secretary of state desperate to make a name for himself are…
On November 15, armed groups from Misratah, Libya, fired on protestors who had taken to the streets of Tripoli to…
By Asa Fitch When liquidators closed the books on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International case in May, a…
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear program, released November 14, has generated a profusion of optimistic…
America and Israel are in uncharted waters. Just eight months since President Barack Obama visited Israel on the first foreign…
(Saudi judo player Widan Skahrkhani at the London Olympics) * A vast majority of Saudis favor women having the right…
There were no economic or cultural bonds among his coalition. He was all things to all people. Charisma ruled. *…
Featuring Simon Henderson The first round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva broke down earlier this month after the P5+1…
As Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers arrived in Geneva this past weekend, expectations rose that a limited…
BBC Newsnight, a British equivalent of ABC’s 20/20, ran a story on Nov. 6 saying intelligence reports judged that Pakistan…
By JOHN VINOCUR Back in 2011, when the United States killed Osama bin Laden in the middle of the Pakistani…
It never started with Russian invasion of Afghanistan or the Jihad-phobia of ‘Mard-e-Momin Ziaul Haq.’ These events only help expedite…
GIANNI VALENTE VATICAN CITY The date for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Rome to meet Pope Francis has been…
With the latest controversy he created in Turkey, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan took the debate on his much-discussed authoritarianism to…
This week Sunni and Shia Muslims ushered in the Islamic New Year and the beginning of the holy month of…
In the Jewish sector many voters didn’t bother to show up at the polling places for the municipal elections. Some…
There is zero chance he gets acquitted. Forget the protests. Forget the procedural twists and turns. That’s all you need…
CUMALİ ÖNAL, İSTANBUL A recent conference held in Turkey dealt with a topic which, though it has been widely discussed…
LAMİYA ADİLGIZI, İSTANBUL The Islamization of Armenians in Turkey is the product of a long-term and systematic political strategy of…
Gerard De Villier, the spy novelist who was known as France’s answer to James Bond, died on Thursday in Paris.…