It never started with Russian invasion of Afghanistan or the Jihad-phobia of ‘Mard-e-Momin Ziaul Haq.’ These events only help expedite the journey to the bottom of…
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Gerard De Villier, the spy novelist who was known as France’s answer to James Bond, died on Thursday in Paris. He was 83, and his lawyer…
By Ronny Linder-Ganz | Oct. 26, 2013 “Do something, write, tell the world,” cries out Dr. Arieh Avidan, deputy director of the ophthalmology department at the…
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MAURO PIANTA AND MARTA PETROSILLO ROME “The worst discrimination is not being considered on equal terms as other citizens”. Speaking to Vatican Insider, Mgr. Joseph Coutts,…
By JULIE BOSMAN Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels made him one of the world’s best-selling and best-known authors, died on Tuesday in a hospital…
When listening to many Syrian Christians, or their Lebanese brethren, you would think that only Christians are suffering from the Syrian conflict. These fears are understandable.…
Turkey’s secular system is the main factor that differentiates Turkey from Arab countries in terms of political Islam, according to a former Turkish foreign minister. ‘Had…
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Around the world, Muslims who use the internet are much more likely than other Muslims to have a favorable opinion of Western movies, music and television…
About two decades ago, at Ben-Gurion International Airport I happened to meet a Palestinian acquaintance who was serving as a minister in Yasser Arafat’s government. I…
CIA Symposium on the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, intelligence officials, Middle East experts, and former policymakers discussed…
Research Conclusions Christians Fears & Concerns Christians mainly identify themselves as Lebanese and Christians significantly more among the females. They don’t see themselves as Arabs. Voters…
In the summer of 2000, I received an e-mail message from a Saudi woman named Nura. She was the mother of three girls who were in…
At Cambridge University in the 1960s, we marched against the Vietnam War to the songs of Bob Dylan, but romanced young ladies to the poetry and…
Lately, I’ve been spending some of my time watching the 2012 American Presidential Election “drama”, which I usually don’t do. But it happens this time that…
It’s been 10 days since Pope Benedict XVI left Beirut, but his portraits still hang along Lebanon’s roads. That is not because of the pope’s popularity…
Andrew Scott Cooper is the author of The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East.…
It is becoming increasingly important to debate the subject of secularism in Turkey, especially at a time when work on a new constitution is ongoing. The…
While the Islamic Republic’s soft power fails, the Iranian people’s urge to integrate into world culture and economy is unprecedented. MILITARIZING THE CULTURAL ARENA In a…
In “Distant View of a Minaret,” the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with…
BRUSSELS – Recently, the human-rights activist, former Dutch politician, and Somali exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote about a global war on Christians in Muslim countries. She…
Christians in the Middle East are worried. Worried about their survival in a region where they have lived for 2,000 years. Worried about their rights being…
The Sunni University, a guide for the World Islamic world, offers some guidelines for the world born after the “Arab spring” on human rights, religious freedom,…
Executive Summary A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages around the world, representing nearly…
The recent violence in Egypt between Copts and the Egyptian army, with its sectarian overtones, poured ice on the high expectations surrounding the Arab intifadas. Arab…
A document discussed Sunday by the Christian “Lady of the Mountain Gathering” rejected “any attempt to link the fate of the Christians to the fate of…
Hugh Eakin 1. On August 23, Libyan rebels raised their flag over Bab al-Aziziya, the once-impregnable complex housing Muammar Qaddafi’s headquarters in Tripoli. Though the dictator…
Articles enumerating the advances in women’s rights in Saudi Arabia have, until now, tended to be rather short. There simply hasn’t been much to write about:…
FATMA DIŞLI ZIBAK, İSTANBUL The Turkish government has adopted a decree to return all confiscated immovable property belonging to minority foundations in Turkey, a long-overdue step…
The intention of the proposed new Basic Law that would define Israel as ‘the national home for the Jewish people’ is to deny the natural rights…
By Neil Sammonds, Amnesty International’s Syria researcher on the Turkish-Syrian border Little is known of the life of the thousands of Syrians who have recently fled…
Three months have passed since the revolution in Syria sparked. Syrians are showing extraordinary bravery in their demand for freedom with more than one thousand and…
The Arab world is witnessing today accelerated democracy uprisings, marking a new era in the region’s history. The special significance of this change stems from focusing…
Peter Beaumont They came for the men first, as the security forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad killed, beat and arrested people protesting against his regime.…
Strangely, there has been uneasiness among some Lebanese Christians at the prospect that the Syrian regime might collapse amid popular discontent. Strange, because if anything has…
By Anna Louie Sussman Sidelined within weeks of helping lead the revolution, women face new challenges in post-Mubarak politics A woman holds an Egyptian flag in…
Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 Hundreds of women and children were blocking a main coastal highway in Syria to protest the arrest of dozens…
Not easy to view Wajeha Al Huweider as a “powerful” woman! We had, always, viewed Wajeha as a great lady and as one of the best…
For those who did not know her, Mariam was a young girl from Alexandria who prayed to God in the last day of the year 2010…
Absurd accusations against the Coptic community of keeping two women who converted to Islam captive. The psychosis of a country that prohibits changing of religion. Islamic…
A masterful commentary of the Instrumentum Laboris made public by Benedict XVI in Cyprus. The urgent issues for Christians in the Middle East (survival, emigration, immigrant…
We have a duty to criticize, judge and even take clear positions, even when the views sound unpleasant. “Music from the Maghreb is poor, limited and…
The surprising and speedy crash of General Stanley McCrystal has been seen in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the wider region as just one more sign of the…
By Erich Follath and Dieter Bednarz In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mohamed ElBaradei, 68, discusses the urge for change in his home…
Literature is not officially censored in Egypt; the scholars of al-Azhar are entitled to scour books on religion for objectionable material, but not other genres. Yet…
LAHORE: At least 65 people were killed and over 70 others injured, 22 of them seriously, when two separate groups of fidayeen attackers belonging to the…
LAHORE: Pakistani human rights activists are perturbed by the erosion of minority rights, particularly the alarming frequency with which cases of forcible conversion of the country’s…
In October 2010 the Catholic Bishops and Patriarchs of the Middle East will convene in Rome for a Synod to discuss the problems of the region…