Conventional wisdom holds that when Iran’s supreme leader says, “Jump,” millions of Shiites, from the Beirut slums to the Saudi…
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LAHORE: The Pakistani intelligence agencies probing the September 20, 2008 Marriot Hotel suicide bombing say the responsibility claim made by…
LAHORE: Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the chief of an al-Qaeda linked Pakistani jehadi group Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI), already being suspected…
LAHORE: The pattern of the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing in Islamabad suggests the possible involvement of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami…
The endless wave of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan, the Marriot Hotel attack in Islamabad on Saturday night being the…
A number of Islamic associations have put a quick end to their collaboration with a professor — and trainer of…
(photo: Prof. Aref Dalila at his release from six years of solitary confinement) * Aref Dalila was not alone in…
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Zardari, who has risen to the highest rung of the country’s political ladder…
Seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States that shook the entire world, Pakistan, despite being a…
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Libya last week represents the final step in a decades-long U.S. effort to…
Policy Focus #87 Format: PDF, 40 Pages Published: September 2008 As nuclear negotiations between Iran and the international community enter…
In May 2003—some eight weeks after the American invasion had begun— Abdul-Amir Hamdani, the archaeology inspector of Dhi Qar province…
PolicyWatch #1401 This PolicyWatch is the second of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with Hamas. Read part one. Almost…
Melody Moezzi and Michelle Obama have three things in common — a law degree, a desire to see Barack Obama…
Ali Abdallah in his cell in section 13 * It has been about two years since Ali Abdullah stopped writing…
PolicyWatch #1400 This PolicyWatch is the first of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with Hamas. Last week, Jordan’s minister…
Last June, Metransparent alerted the Bahai community in the US to the case of the three Iranian Bahais imprisoned in…
In Egypt, the official al-Ahram Printing House refused to print an issue of the left wing “al-Badil” because of a…
NEW YORK — Madonna, this is a bit late because I was caught up writing a piece protesting the absence…
CAIRO — In a Muslim country where the numbers of women wearing the veil are rising, and so — by…
When Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he was besieged by American demands that his military stop supporting the Taliban…
Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman addressed The Washington Institute’s Special Policy Forum on July…
(Photo: Dalila before and after 7 years in prison) For once, we are hoping Syrian public opinion is wrong! For,…
In February 2008, a four-member Washington Institute delegation visited the Kurdish Regional Government(KRG) in northern Iraq on a fact-finding mission.…
By Farah al-Sweel RIYADH (Reuters) – When Saudi Arabia’s Olympic team appears in Beijing next month, it will be conspicuous…
At the strong urging of the Bush administration, Israel has pulled back from threatening to bomb Iran’s nuclear enrichment program…
Since the 6th of July, Marco Pannella – Member of the European Parliament and President of the Nonviolent Radical Party…
This week, Lebanon’s new national unity government is slated to announce its ministerial statement (bayan waziri), the policy document that…
( New York , July 22, 2008) – The Syrian government should order an independent investigation into the deadly shooting…
last Saturday, exactly one week before Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due in Paris to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy…
Hizballah has much to celebrate. With the formation of a national unity government in Lebanon last week, it is now…
The recent decision taken by a French court in Lille, to annul the marriage of a young couple because the…
Rioting at a prison near Syria’s capital killed at least nine inmates Saturday, according to a human rights activist in…
A Libyan well known lawyer, Mr. Daw al Mansoury was kidnapped by « masked thugs » in Tripoli, Libya, at…
How would Arab Christians, Muslims (Sunnis, Shias, Druze, Alawites, etc) and Jews respond to a similar survey if it were…
SANA, Yemen PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Saleh’s face is everywhere in Yemen. He stares out from billboards, shop windows and living…
I salute the decision of the Turkish constitutional Court to ban the turban from Universities. The turban is not anymore…
The May 25 election of Gen. Michel Suleiman as Lebanon’s twelfth president was a central element of the Qatari-brokered compromise…
Developments in Lebanon are being viewed with great concern in Israel. In the aftermath of Hizbullah’s recent military and ostensible…
Dear Teacher Over the last few days’ things have taken a turn for the worse, this has caused immense pain…
Last May, a fax arrived at the London office of the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al Awsat from a shadowy figure…
** From DEMOCRATIYA Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad by John R. Schindler Zenith Press, 2008,…
(New York, May 21, 2008) – The Saudi Interior Ministry should immediately and unconditionally release Matrook al-Faleh, one of Saudi…
On May 21, after five days of mediation, Qatari officials announced a compromise solution to the Lebanese crisis between the…
Since taking over as director of Military Intelligence (MI) in January 2006,Major General Amos Yadlin has not given an interview.…
Nothing less than a titanic clash between two logics is at play in Beirut, and in the larger Middle East.…
President Bush returns to the Middle East this week for the second time in 2008. Initially planned to mark Israel’s…
This week, the democratically elected, pro-Western Lebanese government took the bold and unprecedented decision to confront Hizballah. Since its election…