The winds of change may be sweeping across Yemen. President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently appointed Dr. Ali Mohammed Mujawar as…
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My article on India’s huge book industry two weeks ago seems to have encouraged numerous readers to inquire about the…
Jacques Chirac still has some weeks left in office, but as of this Sunday, when France votes in the first…
On a Pakistan government website, it says: “2007 has been declared the ‘Year of Tourism’ by the Pakistan Government.” We…
Michael Young As France prepares to vote in the first round of its presidential election on April 22, an indispensable…
London: Certain signs precede certain events. Those who read celestial signs seem to believe that finally time has come for…
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on Sunday formalized Hizbullah’s divorce from the rest of Lebanese society, confirming there is a fundamental…
Last week, French Jews celebrated the Grand Sanhedrin convoked by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807. The Emperor submitted to a gathering…
India was recently the ‘Guest of Honour’ country at the Paris International Book Fair (PIBF), which was held from 23…
We can thank the US speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for having informed Syrian President Bashar Assad, from Beirut,…
Agence France-Presse – 03 April, 2007 The new petition – the first during the reign of King Abdullah- represents the…
THE STILL BORN WORLD CUP HOW DID ICC GET IT ALL WRONG AS THE SUMS DON’T ADD UP In my…
– Iqbal Latif – Wajid Shamsul Hasan
Far more than in Shiite areas, sectarian hatred has shredded what remained of community life in Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad
By Karen DeYoung Each day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world — field reports, captured documents,…
He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce…
To most Western minds, madrasahs are breeding grounds for terrorists. But that’s only one side of the coin. The syllabus…
Pierre Akel The only two major terror operations for which Khaled Shaikh Mohammed claims no credit, in his recently released…
An enduring image of General John Abizaid is of him bounding from an armored Humvee in one of Baghdad’s toughest…
Do the Yemeni government’s actions against a band of Shiite rebels comprise an internal Jihad? The upper levels of the…
London: Hi-tech advancement in media has done wonders. I could not believe my eyes when I was a witness to…
By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 16, 2007; A01 BAGHDAD — U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps…
WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi…
World Defense Review columnist Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an…
London: Many Pakistanis have reasons not to feel envious of the role of most of the higher judges and the…
Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Ms. Arbour, I still remember our meeting in May 2005,…
The Daily Star Two Tuesdays ago, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt spent 35 minutes with the president of the…
Add Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht to the list of dignitaries who have left Damascus biting their fists in…
After the Damascus Spring Shortly after I arrived in Damascus last June, Amr Nazir Salem, the minister of telecommunications and…
Palestinian Intellectuals in the West Bank are protesting Hamas government decision to withdraw from schools a book on Palestinian folkore.…
A. Mahjar Barducci The Mecca agreement is not just a starting point for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.…
The Saudi Leadership must feel satisfied at the Iranian president’s visit to Riyad yesterday. Though the outcome is still vague,…
According to the AFP, Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists rallying outside a Tehran court…
It’s become a habit to greet whatever journalist Seymour Hersh writes with reverence. However, after his ludicrous claim last summer…
London: As Pakistan inches painstakingly on to complete its sixtieth year of existence the prospects of its future survival remain…
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the Holocaust conference held in Tehran…
SPIEGEL ONLINE World Press Photo Mix-Up The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows upscale young Lebanese men and…
The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get hold of their enemy defies…
Pierre Akel While Lebanon’s ongoing crisis has enjoyed prominent media coverage all over the world, no one seemed to notice…
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a result of its uprising against…
In a column recently I had expressed apprehensions that Pakistan rendered into a no-man’s land and an epicentre of international…
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah regime is facing a little-noticed…
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al…