BY MICHAEL YOUNG, BEIRUT–This week Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh with…
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ZARQA, Jordan — Abu Ibrahim considers his dead friends the lucky ones. Four died in Iraq in 2005. Three more…
Political parties, MPs and civil society organisations in Egypt are now busy investigating how the constitutional amendments approved last March…
Seven young men who were engaged in developing a youth discussion group and for having some articles published on the…
– Nir boms – Zvi Barel
To All, Worldwide, Human Rights & Civil Society’s Organizations, including UN-Council on Human Rights As well as to Public Figures…
LONDON: Pakistan is in a fix. Some call it a defining moment others describe it as a cross-road or the…
Iqbal Latif Citizens of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against the violence of religious extremists who…
The only two major terror operations for which Khaled Shaikh Mohammed claims no credit, in his recently released testimony to…
In an article on the Arab reformist websites Aafaq (April 9, 2007) and Middle East Transparent (April 8, 2007), Egyptian…
Daily Star staff It’s never easy to discern movement in the midst of glacial stalemate, but the ice has definitely…
– David Schenker – Jane novak – Michael Young – Robin wright – Ariel Cohen
Pakistan has come to be a failing state in the rapid process of being Talibanised. Its internal situation as it…
What is it about the blogosphere that can transform perfectly credible academics into unethical hit men? The object of my…
The winds of change may be sweeping across Yemen. President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently appointed Dr. Ali Mohammed Mujawar as…
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…