Translation By Amira Kashgary Saudi Poet and dissidetn Ali Al-Dumaini dedicated this poem: To Fatima and Mansour who have been…
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Benazir Bhutto, 54, served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan between 1988 and 1996. SPIEGEL spoke to her about…
The Iranian photographer and writer Haleh Anvari is fed up with being fought over by the combatants of the ‘Clash…
Two years after the Taliban fell to an American-led coalition, a group of NATO ambassadors landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, to…
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…
These have been traumatic weeks for the White House, as its strategy of holding the fort on Iraq is turning…
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…
July 14 was the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in France. A day later, last Sunday, French Foreign…
(New York, July 18, 2007) – After a Saudi court forced a married couple to divorce in response to a…
St Joseph University Faculty of Religious Sciences Center for Study, Documentation and Research on Arab Christians The role of Arab…
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…
It says something that one year after the summer 2006 war, we’re not sure whether to celebrate Hizbullah’s “divine victory”…
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…
In his remarkable book, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore does a service by focusing on…
After the attack against a Spanish patrol two Sundays ago, Spain’s military began cooperating with Hizbullah in the investigation to…
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…