MEtransparent Exclusive by Pierre Akel Credible libyan sources confirmed to Metransparent that Al-Mu’tasim-Billah al-Gaddafi had in fact been arrested in…
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Hugh Eakin 1. On August 23, Libyan rebels raised their flag over Bab al-Aziziya, the once-impregnable complex housing Muammar Qaddafi’s…
Najah Khalil, in South Lebanon To the memory of its people, the state of insecurity and terror imposed by the…
If you’re wondering what diplomats can do in an era of pulverizing military force and instantaneous communications, consider the case…
The use of violence by Egypt’s military rulers against Coptic protestors undermines the rulers’ international legitimacy and damages their domestic…
Michael E. O’Hanlon, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative With the continued willingness and…
Ankara may soon slap the Asad regime with mild sanctions, but most of its Syria policy will remain just rhetoric…
Progress on the economic and political fronts is helping to insulate the monarchy from the instability currently sweeping the region.…
God created the world in six days, and on the seventh he rested! That is if we were to believe the…
Shaffaf Exclusive Exclusive information to Shaffaf reported that Hezbollah arrested five members of its security organs on charges of…
Articles enumerating the advances in women’s rights in Saudi Arabia have, until now, tended to be rather short. There simply…
By LIAM STACK CAIRO — Two of Kuwait’s largest banks thought it a bit suspicious when about $92 million was…
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has now killed nearly 3,000 people and detained 70,000 in suppressing his country’s opposition movement. This…
Featuring Andrew J. Tabler, Robert Satloff, and Margaret Scobey On September 19, 2011, Andrew J. Tabler, Robert Satloff, and Margaret…
Metransparent Exclusive The U.S. Ambassador to Beirut meeting with the Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, last Monday, was at best a…
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI BAGHDAD — After months of striking a far friendlier tone toward the government…
by Metransparent correspondent in South Lebanon Najah Khalil More than a year after the Municipal elections, a municipal committee under…
The families of Sujud, a locality near Jezzine in South Lebanon, issued a statement demanding the immediate withdrawal of Hezbollah…
Last week Maronite Patriarch Bcharra Rai made some highly controversial comments from Paris in which he suggested that Bashar Al…
Watch Video on You tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtXzxFE-WU&feature=player_embedded Earlier, the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, had made the following statement: September 11,…
Andrew Tabler. Lawrence Hill, $16.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-56976-843-3 Tabler, a fellow in the Arab politics program at the Washington…
Metransparent Exclusive The emirate of Qatar seems to have overplayed its hand in Libya. Metransparent sources in Tripoli talk of…
Today, the body of Ghiyath Mattar, 26, was returned to his family in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus. Ghiyath was…
Remarkably, as Syria’s increasingly isolated President Asad continues his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising, Iraq is throwing him a…
This past weekend, as Eid al-Fitr was concluding, I read reports of peaceful protests yet again being met with security…
The regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to completely cut Iran off from the Internet. But activists in the…
Shock waves rippled through the Syrian Business Community this morning as people awoke to the news that four of the…
The STL recently published the indictment, accusing four Hezbollah members of PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination on February 14, 2005, among…
By Clemens Höges In the end, the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime came quickly, after the rebels mounted a lightning…
Statement to the Syrian People In an unprecedented move over the past several days, Syrians in Syria and abroad have…
FATMA DIŞLI ZIBAK, İSTANBUL The Turkish government has adopted a decree to return all confiscated immovable property belonging to minority…
By Rania Abouzeid / Near Rastan The three motorbikes twisted around sharp turns, bumping over potholes, as their riders navigated…
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 08/27/2011 8:00 AM University of Indonesia (UI) has come under a storm of protests…
It is often said in Lebanon that the Arab Spring wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the Cedar Spring.…
Kristin Diwan On June 23 Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah survived a parliament vote of no confidence, the…
Time Magazine, a very credible media source, published an article in which an interview by the Magazine correspondent Nicholas Blanford…
New Republic Online On Thursday, President Obama issued a long overdue statement calling for regime change in Syria, declaring that…
During a recent conversation with a Hizballah source, a TIME reporter found himself introduced to one of the four members…
by AFROOZ MAHDAVI in Tehran Evidence is piling up that suggests Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will order the…
Today, five months after the Syrian regime began its brutal crackdown on anti-regime protestors, President Obama announced that “the time…
Read the Full Text: Hezbollah suspects to be tried over Rafik Hariri BBC- A UN-backed tribunal has published charges against…
An Interview by Bernard Gwertzman, CFR.org Despite objections from the international community, as well as Turkey’s stern warning that Syria…
What each person may be grateful for can vary quite significantly; of course, some factors might contribute to your sense…
POLICYWATCH #1840 Extreme violence is at the heart of the Asad regime’s response to popular protests in Syria. Its use…
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI BAGHDAD — As leaders in the Arab world and other countries condemn President…
What a difference three decades make. In April 1982, I was assigned to be the Beirut correspondent for The Times.…
Posted by Leen Zyiad The author is writing under a pseudonym. Hama haunts us Syrians; Hama shaped our fear. Every…
The intention of the proposed new Basic Law that would define Israel as ‘the national home for the Jewish people’…
Hurriyet Daily News, August 7, 2011 The Arab Spring has provided us with a new perspective: for people living under…
القاهرة (رويترز) – قال نبيل العربي الامين العام لجامعة الدول العربية يوم الاثنين انه سيلجأ الى الاقناع بدلا من “الاجراءات…