It is becoming increasingly important to debate the subject of secularism in Turkey, especially at a time when work on…
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إن المتابع لعملية الاختطاف والمدقق في حيثياتها لا بد أن يسجّل الملاحظات والمفارقات والتساؤلات الآتية: أولاً: عبرت باصات المسافرين منطقة…
While the Islamic Republic’s soft power fails, the Iranian people’s urge to integrate into world culture and economy is unprecedented.…
The latest clashes in Beirut show that as long as the Syrian conflict persists, Lebanon’s internal security will be increasingly…
The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and…
The story of Benin Kataya is a great sign of the relativity in the practice of freedoms in Lebanon. Now…
The Ilisu Dam project could enter the annals of counterterrorism as history’s first “hydro-victory.” * You may have heard of…
1. The fifth session of Sheikh Hassan Mchaymech’s trial was held on Friday, May 11, 2012. Of note: For the…
The upcoming GCC meeting in Riyadh reflects concern about events in Syria, fear of Iran, and anxieties about Washington’s policies.…
The Hezbollah militia is extending its fiber optic telecommunications network to Beirut’s downtown area under the nose of Lebanese authorities…
The scandal of captagon pills fabricated in Hezbollah religious seminaries (or hawzas) in the city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s eastern…
Chairman Chabot and Ranking Member Ackerman: Thank you for this opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee on the Middle East…
Despite trepidation over Libya’s upcoming elections, they offer the best way to solve the country’s legitimacy crisis, and Washington should…
In “Distant View of a Minaret,” the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a…
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political. In the early…
Could Turkey really go to war against Syria? If it were to do so, Ankara would need to find a…
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…
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…
BRUSSELS – Recently, the human-rights activist, former Dutch politician, and Somali exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote about a global war…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…