Browsing: Middle East
LONDON: Pakistan is in a fix. Some call it a defining moment others describe it as a cross-road or the edge of precipice. It is difficult…
Iqbal Latif Citizens of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against the violence of religious extremists who have been, trying to force their…
The only two major terror operations for which Khaled Shaikh Mohammed claims no credit, in his recently released testimony to the Military Tribunal at Guantanamo Bay…
In an article on the Arab reformist websites Aafaq (April 9, 2007) and Middle East Transparent (April 8, 2007), Egyptian author Hisham Al-Tuhi rejects the view…
– David Schenker – Jane novak – Michael Young – Robin wright – Ariel Cohen
What is it about the blogosphere that can transform perfectly credible academics into unethical hit men? The object of my inquiry is one Joshua Landis, an…
The winds of change may be sweeping across Yemen. President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently appointed Dr. Ali Mohammed Mujawar as Prime Minister. Formerly the Minister of…
Jacques Chirac still has some weeks left in office, but as of this Sunday, when France votes in the first round of its presidential election, the…
On a Pakistan government website, it says: “2007 has been declared the ‘Year of Tourism’ by the Pakistan Government.” We wonder if Pakistan’s Minister of Tourism,…
Michael Young As France prepares to vote in the first round of its presidential election on April 22, an indispensable guide to a campaign mostly low…
London: Certain signs precede certain events. Those who read celestial signs seem to believe that finally time has come for a change. The cumulative effects of…
Last week, French Jews celebrated the Grand Sanhedrin convoked by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807. The Emperor submitted to a gathering of 72 rabbis and Jewish notables,…
Agence France-Presse – 03 April, 2007 The new petition – the first during the reign of King Abdullah- represents the view of the moderate “Islamic” tendency…
THE STILL BORN WORLD CUP HOW DID ICC GET IT ALL WRONG AS THE SUMS DON’T ADD UP In my opinion, nothing is wrong with the…
– 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, news from foreign allies and sometimes…
He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce court judge saw no cause for…
Pierre Akel The only two major terror operations for which Khaled Shaikh Mohammed claims no credit, in his recently released testimony to the Military Tribunal at…
An enduring image of General John Abizaid is of him bounding from an armored Humvee in one of Baghdad’s toughest neighborhoods last summer and conversing with…
Do the Yemeni government’s actions against a band of Shiite rebels comprise an internal Jihad? The upper levels of the Yemeni military, judiciary and intelligence services…
London: Hi-tech advancement in media has done wonders. I could not believe my eyes when I was a witness to the blowing up of New York…
By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 16, 2007; A01 BAGHDAD — U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr…
WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi government to meet by this month,…
World Defense Review columnist Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an international contingent to go into the…
London: Many Pakistanis have reasons not to feel envious of the role of most of the higher judges and the apex judiciary. Both have faulted time…
Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Ms. Arbour, I still remember our meeting in May 2005, and the level of attention and…
After the Damascus Spring Shortly after I arrived in Damascus last June, Amr Nazir Salem, the minister of telecommunications and technology, told me that champress.net would…
A. Mahjar Barducci The Mecca agreement is not just a starting point for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. A careful look at the agreements…
The Saudi Leadership must feel satisfied at the Iranian president’s visit to Riyad yesterday. Though the outcome is still vague, the mere visit was an acknowledgement…
It’s become a habit to greet whatever journalist Seymour Hersh writes with reverence. However, after his ludicrous claim last summer that Israel’s war in Lebanon was…
London: As Pakistan inches painstakingly on to complete its sixtieth year of existence the prospects of its future survival remain shrouded under a dark cloud of…
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the Holocaust conference held in Tehran late last year, calling it a…
The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get hold of their enemy defies basic common sense. A purported Taliban…
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a result of its uprising against the central government in recent years,…
In a column recently I had expressed apprehensions that Pakistan rendered into a no-man’s land and an epicentre of international terrorism is slipping into a fratricidal…
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah regime is facing a little-noticed domestic challenge that may ultimately prove…
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa,…
By Wieland Wagner SPIEGEL ONLINE – China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns…
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns are rising in Beijing of ethnic…
The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to discuss Islam, Muslims, or Arabs in anything less than superlatives —…