Browsing: Middle East
VELEN, Germany — If turning 40 isn’t challenging enough, try preparing for this milestone when you’re as old as one of the worst defeats Arab armies…
My friend, the intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, is in jail in Iran for, well, being an intellectual. He has had no access to a lawyer or to…
EXONERATE Pardoned Bulgarian Nurses and Palestinian Medic Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) called for the complete exoneration of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian medic who…
The Events in Gaza The Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip was the culmination of two separate processes which began years ago. The first is the…
(Reuters announced the liberation of Mrs Rima al-Jareesh today) SAUDI ARABIA Dr Abdullah al-Hamid (m), former professor of contemporary literature at Imam Muhammad bin Sa’ud University,…
BURAIDAH, Saudi Arabia Islam needs a Reformation. It needs someone with the courage of Martin Luther. This is the belief I’ve arrived at after a long…
The Islamic revolution could not be televised in Pakistan for a simple reason. It never happened. Despite predictions by two hardline clerics that Pakistanis would rise…
These have been traumatic weeks for the White House, as its strategy of holding the fort on Iraq is turning into the political equivalent of the…
By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 20, 2007; A01 PEORIA, Ill. — The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a deadline. Just…
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over the past two years, putting the…
July 14 was the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in France. A day later, last Sunday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner did a good…
(New York, July 18, 2007) – After a Saudi court forced a married couple to divorce in response to a lawsuit brought by the wife’s brothers,…
Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt…
A new National Intelligence Estimate raises concerns that the terrorist group is growing stronger. WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek July 11, 2007 – A new National Intelligence Estimate…
By JOHN F. BURNS and ALISSA J. RUBIN BAGHDAD, July 9 — As the Senate prepares to begin a new debate this week on proposals for…
In the Sa’ada region of North Yemen, confrontations between government forces and the Believing Youth resumed in January 2007. The fighting often takes place near inhabited…
The young man in shorts who was waiting for the elevator in the General Staff building recently looked, at first glance, like a settler without a…
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was aborted at the…
Some members of the ruling family reportedly back hard-line Sunni groups; others advise helping disenfranchised Shiites. July 7, 2007 MANAMA, BAHRAIN — Leading members of Bahrain’s…
In his recent survey, Professor Purnendra Jain, head of Asian Studies at Australia’s Adelaide University, holds that many Asian countries are currently competing for nuclear status…
In his remarkable book, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore does a service by focusing on the intimacies of power. In his…
After the attack against a Spanish patrol two Sundays ago, Spain’s military began cooperating with Hizbullah in the investigation to determine who had killed its soldiers.…
Reuters – 03 July, 2007– A senior Saudi royal ruled out direct elections to Saudi Arabia’s unelected parliament in comments published on Monday, days after King…
A screen shot of a blocked website in Iran (RFE/RL) The following is a must read for our Arab readers. Authorities try hard, but, in the…
As the Imam mentioned, half a century has passed since one of our great leaders welcomed the Islamic Center into our nation’s family of faith. Dedicating…
Core members of Iran’s council of Economic governance – The President, butcher and the tomato selle “For example, there is an honourable butcher in our neighbourhood…
Recently, the Indonesian government was praised highly by the United States and neighbouring countries, including Australia, for its excellent efforts in fighting terrorism. This came after…
International Solidarity Network 26 June 2007 His Majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain Subject:…
The Sa’ada war in northern Yemen may be coming to a close. The Yemeni government announced on June 15 that a cease-fire had been negotiated through…
An Iraqi special tribunal yesterday sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as ”Chemical Ali” to death for the destruction of thousands of Kurdish villages and the murder…
(Image: A police officer forced a young man whose clothes were deemed un-Islamic to suck on a plastic container Iranians use to wash their bottoms.) Iran…
The Failed States Index 2007 There are 177 states included in the 2007 index, compared to 148 in 2006 and 75 in 2005. A small handful…
RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 — The Hamas military takeover of Gaza last week was partly fueled by caches of weapons smuggled through tunnels below this gritty…
The Sudanese government has agreed to the deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force to Darfur, a move facilitated by the UN Security Council.Dumisani Kumalo,…
The Hamas coup in Gaza was directed by a foreign al-Qaeda commando, according to the one of the highest-ranking intelligence officers of the Palestinian Authority. Bahaa…