The Islamist Feud behind Turkey’s Turmoil
Wall Street Journal The news last week about a corruption scandal in Turkey seems on…
Monthly Archives: December, 2013
Mohamad Chatah’s Open Letter to Tehran
Editor’s note: Mohamad Chatah, a former Lebanese finance minister, wrote the following open letter last…
Russia-Syria Offshore Gas Deal Injects New Factor into Peace Talks
A December 25 accord signed between Syria and Russia allows for exploration and drilling in…
‘The Myth of Mao Zedong Still Haunts China’
A commentary by Bao Tong The 20th century saw three great political myths. The myths…
Turkey: Corruption probe originated in Russia, aided by whistleblower
TODAY’S ZAMAN, ANKARA In the midst of a shocking graft probe that caused two Cabinet…
Remembering the Holocaust in Tunisia
On December 14-15, a conference was held in Tunis in remembrance of the 5,000 Jews…
Far From Geneva, Iran Nuclear Talks Continue
By Owen Matthews / The talks in Geneva to broker a deal with Iran to…
The Syrian Regime’s Military Solution to the War
It has become commonplace to say that “there is no military solution” to the conflict…
Patriarch Sidrak: Political Islam in Egypt has failed
GIANNI VALENTE ROME Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected Patriarch of Alexandria’s Coptic Catholics last January.…
U.S. inaction in Syria could be far more costly than intervention
The Post’s View By Editorial Board FROM THE beginning of the Syria crisis almost three…
Write a short essay warning the Zionist enemy
“The enemy’s army, as we were taught in school, is the army that is now…
Egypt’s New Constitution: Bleak Prospects
Egypt’s new draft constitution reflects the coalition of leftist political parties and entrenched state actors…
Saudi Prince Criticizes Obama Administration, Citing Indecision in Mideast
By STEVEN ERLANGER MONACO — An influential Saudi prince blasted the Obama administration on Sunday…
When will the U.S. help the Syrians?
By Editorial Board Syria falls into an abyss IT’S BEEN seven weeks since Secretary of…
Lebanon is no country for young men
Saturday evening, while walking in Sassine Square, I came upon a nauseating scene. Two young…
Hans Küng: ‘the cardinals who elected Francis didn’t even know how revolutionary he is’
By Markus Grill Hans Küng, 85, is one of the world’s most famous theologians. In…
Linking the Syrian Conflict to the Iranian Nuclear Agreement
Weekly Standard Back in 2006, during a particularly low point in the U.S. occupation of…
Is Iran Set to Lash Out at Saudi Arabia?
CNN Global Public Square The November 19 double suicide bombings of the Iranian embassy in…
Hussein Morsi: My Brother’s Presidency ‘Was a Disaster’
Hussein Morsi looks almost exactly like his infamous brother, albeit 15 years younger with a…
Razan Zeitouneh, 3 activists, kidnapped in Douma
Development and Small Projects Support Office (LDSPS) regarding the kidnapping of activists Razan Zeitouneh, Samira…
Call to account: FT probe of Vatican Bank
By Rachel Sanderson in Milan The sweeping clampdown, the first in the Vatican bank’s 71-year…
Building on the Joint Plan of Action: Toward a Sustainable Nuclear Deal with Iran
Diplomats from Iran and the P5+1 meet next week in Vienna to discuss implementation of…
Clan Warfare in Egypt
Nearly five months after the uprising-cum-coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsy, Egypt is mostly calm.…
The air strike is canceled, what next?
A few weeks ago the Facebook page “The Syrian revolution against Bashar El Assad 2011”…
انور البني يتحدث عن معاناة المحامي خليل معتوق في السجن
في لقاء خاص ليكيتي ميديا مع الاستاذ المحامي انور البني زميل المهنة والمقرب من الاستاذ…