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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…
Core members of Iran’s council of Economic governance – The President, butcher and the tomato selle “For example, there is…
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…
For those following events in South Lebanon, the deadly attack on Sunday against soldiers of the Spanish contingent of UNIFIL…
Secretary / Special Rapporteur on violence against women Higher Commissionaire of Human Rights Geneva, Switzerland 25 June 2007 Kindest regards…
The Sa’ada war in northern Yemen may be coming to a close. The Yemeni government announced on June 15 that…
An Iraqi special tribunal yesterday sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as ”Chemical Ali” to death for the destruction of thousands…
(Image: A police officer forced a young man whose clothes were deemed un-Islamic to suck on a plastic container Iranians…
Many Lebanese, particularly in the majority camp, have been preoccupied with the court being set up to try suspects in…
A friend of mine, a Lebanese journalist, tells the following story: Three years ago, when his country was under Syrian…
The Failed States Index 2007 There are 177 states included in the 2007 index, compared to 148 in 2006 and…
RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 — The Hamas military takeover of Gaza last week was partly fueled by caches of weapons…
The Sudanese government has agreed to the deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force to Darfur, a move facilitated…
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…
Negotiations to create a new national-unity government have hit a brick wall, and that’s a relief. The opposition’s conditions for…
In his 2007 essay What’s Left?, Nick Cohen wonders how it is that many on the political left have lost…
CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women…
The sums just don’t add up! From 2002-06, the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,…
Literal interpretations of the Koran emerge when Islam finds itself in moments of crises and are at the root of…
Two decades ago, there was nothing to talk about in terms of contacts or cooperation between Vietnam and the Arab…
London: In politics a week is a long time. Media’s freedom euphoria has been short lived. It has landed in…
It is a coincidence, but a useful one, that on the 40th anniversary of an Arab-Israeli war that prompted the…
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 4 — A few miles from Mona Abboud’s bookstore in Tripoli, passengers in cars ducked below the…
As TV Coverage Feeds Protests, Musharraf Reacts HARIPUR, Pakistan — Every day, Taj Mohammed Abbasi wheels his cart through dusty…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 3 — Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is stirring up Pakistani politics by quietly talking through intermediaries…
I. Roads to Damascus At a meeting in mid-April in Geneva, held by António Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner…
The assault on the Coptic residents of the village of Bemha, Al-Ayat, Giza, on 11 May 2007 is the latest…
It was in the mid-1970s when South Korea succeeded for the first time in its history in establishing a foothold…
A Bahraini mother risks losing custody of her child to a husband under whose care their now six-year-old daughter was…
Because there are no borders in the sky, national policies must fall by the wayside when it comes to environmental…
London: Pakistani media never had it so good. It is having a field day in reporting on everything under the…
Last week, while being driven through Chicago, I heard one Flynt Leverett speaking in a news report aired on National…
Pervez HoodbhoyAfter his ill-advised dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court ignited a firestorm of violent protests, President…
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Ethical education is indispensable for the well-being both of individuals and societies. For the individual, this kind of instruction motivates…