From prison
Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Ms. Arbour, I still remember…
Author Sarah Akel
Lebanon’s price in Washington rises
The Daily Star Two Tuesdays ago, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt spent 35 minutes…
Syrians search for freedom online
After the Damascus Spring Shortly after I arrived in Damascus last June, Amr Nazir Salem,…
The Mecca Agreement
A. Mahjar Barducci The Mecca agreement is not just a starting point for peace talks…
Iranian women rights activists arrested
According to the AFP, Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists…
Iranian Scholars Denounce Conference That Denied Holocaust
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the…
CATERING TO A LEBANESE CLICHÉ
SPIEGEL ONLINE World Press Photo Mix-Up The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows…
The death of common sense!!
The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get…
Trouble brewing in Iranian Balochistan
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a…
Iran’s Wages of Fanaticism
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah…
U.S. Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or…
GUNS AND STEEL ON THE SILK ROAD
By Wieland Wagner SPIEGEL ONLINE – China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim…
GUNS AND STEEL ON THE SILK ROAD
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far…
Dangerous Knowledge In Academe
The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to…
Strategic Interests
FROM WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW Published 22 Feb 07 World Defense Review columnist Violence, Islamism, and…
Saudis Cozy Up To Jews in America
Extra, extra, read all about it: The Saudi-Jewish entente is here. The Saudis are rolling…
Terror Officials See Al Qaeda Chiefs Regaining Power
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered…
The Man Behind the President
The president is nippy and abrasive. This is what all those who have worked closely…
A step backward in Moroccan freedoms
While the world is busy watching the developing crises in the Middle East, Morocco is…
Learning from Bangladesh
Poverty is not a shame. The shame is to deny its existence and to do…
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BUSH
On the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the United…
Traffic Cop in an Unsettled Region
SAUDI ARABIA’S WORLD The Saudi Arabia which German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit this weekend…
Assessing the Bush Administration’s Policy of ‘Constructive Instability’ (Part I): Lebanon and Syria*
March 15, 2005 The Bush Administration’s policy of “constructive instability” in the Middle East is…
Vigil for Freedom of the Longest-Held Prisoner in Saudi Arabia-15 years
January 25, 2007 After being held in prisoner for 15 years for a remark he…
With Iran Ascendant, U.S. Is Seen at Fault
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait rarely rebuffs its…
Playing by Islamofascist rules
Some two years ago Saudi clerics issued fatwas forbidding Muslims to play soccer unless its…
Vision of Rebuilding Lebanon Wanes
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon, Jan. 16 — In August, Mohammed al-Seyed watched with some pride as…
Advocates Want Stronger U.S. Effort to Free Democracy Activist
Support Builds for Libyan Dissident Human rights activists and Western diplomats are increasingly concerned about…