** Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France, has urged his country’s ambassadors to engage…
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Over the past week, Beirut has been rocked by violence yet again. On January 25,…
The tragic and senseless killing of demonstrators in Shiyyah last Sunday was, perhaps rightfully, seen…
Berlin Detlev Mehlis speaks slowly. So when he says, “I haven’t seen a word in…
Zeroes are zeroes after all. SocGen trader, Jerome Kerviel is not an anomaly. He is…
For some years now, Arab diplomacy has been a chronicle of death foretold. In Iraq,…
You have to wonder what Michel Aoun thought when he heard the sound of the…
When I was invited by Anita Mir on behalf of Campaign Against Martial Law to…
(Just to put the historical record straight, the israeli point of view about what happened…
The following article was first published by Metransparent on February 23, 2007. Referring to recent…
Posted by Joris Janssen Lok at 1/14/2008 4:51 AM Andy Nativi writes: Algeria’s Gendarmerie military…
Nicolas Sarkozy and what American candidates might learn from France’s permanent reality show History, even…
For all the entertainment value provided by so-called chick lit in the Western world–from Britain’s…
Last November, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his seventh trip to Iran . As always,…
In an article published recently on the Arab liberal websites Aafaq, Middle East Transparent, and…
So unreliable have Syrian commitments to Lebanon’s normalization been in recent months, that almost no…
Israel missed a reasonable opportunity for a cease-fire with Hezbollah during the first week of…
This article was first published on The Other Malaysia website, which we just “discovered”. We…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When a Saudi court sentenced a young woman to 200…
WASHINGTON — United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far…
Israel needs to internalize that even its supportive friends on the international stage conceive of…
Yemen is facing instability unseen since its 1994 civil war. A war with Shiite rebels…
The power of Shiite Muslim clergy has eroded in favor of various competing groups within…
Maybe 2008 will be the year when we are finally rid of that vacuous belief…
The Annapolis summit and the efforts to revive the peace process have exacerbated the tension…
A demoralizing aspect of much international political behavior, commentary, or policy counsel on Syria in…
By its nature, war is a formative event. Often when war begins, various processes come…
A new study commissioned by Germany’s Interior Ministry warns of a growing threat from the…
What is left of Lebanon’s confessional democratic system as the country pursues its cold civil…
Former US Diplomat John Bolton is no longer in office, but he still has a…
It’s not often that one has the stomach to call on political realists – all…
While the world obsesses this week over whether the ill-fated Annapolis conference will result in…
Syrian authorities this week arrested more than 30 people who had been working for political…
New York: It was oddly delicious watching a has-been dictator bask in the undeserved tribute…
To better understand the assassination of General Francois Hajj on Wednesday morning in Baabda, one…
By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 11, 2007; A03 A former…
By Peter Baker and Dafna Linzer They call them “deep dives,” special briefings for President…
The French daily “Le Monde” confirmed today the arrest of journalist Guillaume Dasquié in relation…
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian writer Ali Abdullah has been jailed three times in the…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran’s…
Wednesday afternoon, Saad al-Hariri’s Mostaqbal party agreed to a constitutional amendment that would allow Lebanese…
London: Just when November ended, Pakistan went through major developments of significant consequences with many…
** It is their ‘good’ one that is the real ‘bad.’ An emotional Musharraf relinquished…
Lebanon is looking into the abyss; it is in the throes of a political crisis…
November 2007 (somewhere) Ya Allah I am a humble believer in my good forties. My…
By LARA SETRAKIAN Nov. 21, 2007 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Justice is defending a…
The U.S. provided Israel with information about Syrian air defenses before Israel attacked a suspected…
Those of us who welcomed the naming of Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister of France…
Ten weeks have passed since the Israel Air Force attacked in Syria, and there is…
By Faiza Saleh Ambah JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 21 — Saudi officials have revoked the…
