Author: Sarah Akel
Sarah Akel
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Iraq’s national government is refusing to take possession of thousands of American-financed reconstruction projects, forcing the United States either to…
VELEN, Germany — If turning 40 isn’t challenging enough, try preparing for this milestone when you’re as old as one…
My friend, the intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, is in jail in Iran for, well, being an intellectual. He has had no…
EXONERATE Pardoned Bulgarian Nurses and Palestinian Medic Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) called for the complete exoneration of the five…
A land grab proportionally equivalent to a foreign power occupying Arizona. Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT As of…
The Events in Gaza The Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip was the culmination of two separate processes which began…
(Reuters announced the liberation of Mrs Rima al-Jareesh today) SAUDI ARABIA Dr Abdullah al-Hamid (m), former professor of contemporary literature…
BURAIDAH, Saudi Arabia Islam needs a Reformation. It needs someone with the courage of Martin Luther. This is the belief…
The Islamic revolution could not be televised in Pakistan for a simple reason. It never happened. Despite predictions by two…
By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 20, 2007; A01 PEORIA, Ill. — The 37-year-old computer science student…
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over…
(New York, July 18, 2007) – After a Saudi court forced a married couple to divorce in response to a…
It appears that the Israeli dilemma of whether Hezbollah emerged from the Second Lebanon War strengthened or weakened has been…
Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden…
A new National Intelligence Estimate raises concerns that the terrorist group is growing stronger. WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek July 11, 2007…
By JOHN F. BURNS and ALISSA J. RUBIN BAGHDAD, July 9 — As the Senate prepares to begin a new…
In the Sa’ada region of North Yemen, confrontations between government forces and the Believing Youth resumed in January 2007. The…
Professor ALAN JOHNSON’s DEMOKRATIYA (based at Edge Hill University)is a must for readers of Middle East Transparent. Add it to…
The young man in shorts who was waiting for the elevator in the General Staff building recently looked, at first…
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s…
Some members of the ruling family reportedly back hard-line Sunni groups; others advise helping disenfranchised Shiites. July 7, 2007 MANAMA,…
In his recent survey, Professor Purnendra Jain, head of Asian Studies at Australia’s Adelaide University, holds that many Asian countries…
It is sometimes forgotten that the content of history, the business of the historian, is the past, not the future.…
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 6 — Minutes before Islamic militants and government troops began killing each other in northern Lebanon six…
Reuters – 03 July, 2007– A senior Saudi royal ruled out direct elections to Saudi Arabia’s unelected parliament in comments…
A screen shot of a blocked website in Iran (RFE/RL) The following is a must read for our Arab readers.…
As the Imam mentioned, half a century has passed since one of our great leaders welcomed the Islamic Center into…
Recently, the Indonesian government was praised highly by the United States and neighbouring countries, including Australia, for its excellent efforts…
International Solidarity Network 26 June 2007 His Majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King…
Secretary / Special Rapporteur on violence against women Higher Commissionaire of Human Rights Geneva, Switzerland 25 June 2007 Kindest regards…
(Image: A police officer forced a young man whose clothes were deemed un-Islamic to suck on a plastic container Iranians…
A friend of mine, a Lebanese journalist, tells the following story: Three years ago, when his country was under Syrian…
RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 — The Hamas military takeover of Gaza last week was partly fueled by caches of weapons…
The Hamas coup in Gaza was directed by a foreign al-Qaeda commando, according to the one of the highest-ranking intelligence…
A good study from the CIA’s website (Studies in Intelligence). At least one point was news to us, namely that…
Last month, US-based Afghan physician Khaled Hosseini released his second novel, A Thousnd Splendid Suns. Like in his first novel,…
Yesterday’s car bombing in Beirut, which killed Future Party parliamentarian Walid Eido, underscores the Syrian-backed multifront campaign to undermine stability…