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It was no joke for millions of Turks who queued in front of ballot boxes at early hours of the…
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange,…
Ten years ago this week, our friend and colleague Samir Kassir was murdered outside his home, likely at the instigation…
Concern about the political direction of the Middle East has long ago replaced the optimism that briefly followed the 2010-11…
The outcome has dealt a blow to the AKP’s longstanding dominance and Erdogan’s goal of implementing a presidential system, with…
http://edge.media.cfr.org/content/publications/media/meetings/2015/20150604Saudi_Arabia_and_Israel.mp4 By DAVID E. SANGERJUNE WASHINGTON — A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi Arabia and Israel was on…
The technology can stop the missile, but politics are getting in the way. By Marcus Weisgerber If Iran launches a…
Analysts have wondered why Syria’s Druze have not joined the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad, despite the…
Why Muslims Are Rising Fastest and the Unaffiliated Are Shrinking as a Share of the World’s Population The religious profile…
Since regaining Tikrit, the Iraqi government has seemingly listened to Washington’s advice about delaying an undermanned campaign to retake Mosul,…
The Khobar Towers bombing on June 25, 1996 This week, Saudi Arabia just sanctioned two senior Hezbollah members, Khalil Harb…
Shaffaf reproduces the following article of The Wall Street Journal as a tribute to the Arab Jews- still present in…
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and Space imagery taken on 27…
Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor at Science Po (Paris), was asked by the Journal du Dimanche to comment the fall…
“Dark Clouds Over Turkey” (full text) Monday 25 May 2015 Hopefully, the Turks shall soon vote their president out…
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one…
The group will no doubt continue helping the Assad regime hang on, but the war’s heavy attrition, Syria’s demographic realities,…
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it published from the Edward Snowden…
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle East Transparent the following explanation…
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on 12 May 2015.…
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria’s…
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing of the map of…
They reject his attempts to reassure them over the Iran nuclear deal. The promise of a successful nuclear deal with…
The White House’s bottom line for Camp David is to limit public condemnation of the emerging deal with Iran, but…
One of the prime minister’s remarks suggests that a more fundamental dispute may be brewing between U.S. and Israeli intelligence…
In all likelihood, Khamenei’s potentially imminent successor will be even more of a hardliner, and he could renege on a…
Salman Masalha New Arab city will perpetuate inequality We should oppose the construction of a new Arab city on principle.…
The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue speaks to Vatican Radio about the barbaric killing in Pakistan: “How…
By revealing all the offers that Iran has rejected, Washington could block Tehran’s potential Plan B, which will likely involve…
Given its recent track record of targeting Israelis, Hezbollah’s decision to take public responsibility for a new border attack likely…
Rebels capture reluctant Afghans in Aleppo Jassem Al Salami Wednesday 22 October 2014 “Come out, you donkey!” the Syrian…
A rare poll conducted last month in three Gulf Cooperation Council states demonstrates decisive rejection of ISIS and a surprisingly…
The moderate rebel force currently envisioned by Washington would take far too long to arrive on the battlefield and could…
How does Islamic State think? How do its followers see the world? SPIEGEL ONLINE met up with an Islamic State…
Relax. What happened in Tunisia is not about to repeat itself in other Arab states. The toppling of a dictator…
Dietl, who now lives in a tranquil village near Munich, spent 11 years as an agent for the West German…
Of the 300 Hindu temples that Pakistan inherited in 1947 atthe time of partition, hardly three dozen have managed to…
Omid Memarian Abdolkarim Lahidji, vice president of the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) told Rooz in an…
LAHORE: As the political crisis in Pakistan has touched new heights in the wake of the PPP government’s latest warning…
At first sight – Prof Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and currently the ameer of the…
A new study commissioned by Germany’s Interior Ministry warns of a growing threat from the radicalization of Muslims in the…
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…