UN inaction would have led to another genocide in Darfur!!
The Sudanese government has agreed to the deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force…
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Strategic Deception During the Suez Crisis of 1956
A good study from the CIA’s website (Studies in Intelligence). At least one point was…
Silencing the voice of a strong woman
Last month, US-based Afghan physician Khaled Hosseini released his second novel, A Thousnd Splendid Suns.…
Syria’s Export of Terrorism to Lebanon: Threat and Response
Yesterday’s car bombing in Beirut, which killed Future Party parliamentarian Walid Eido, underscores the Syrian-backed…
Lebanon: Why rush a national-unity government?
Negotiations to create a new national-unity government have hit a brick wall, and that’s a…
A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life
CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction…
Where are the billions? Saga of misisng GCC $542 billlions
The sums just don’t add up! From 2002-06, the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation…
GCC interest in Vietnam is increasing
Two decades ago, there was nothing to talk about in terms of contacts or cooperation…
Pakistan: Chained Meida, Deal or no Deal and Ayesha SiddiqA
London: In politics a week is a long time. Media’s freedom euphoria has been short…
Winning over the Palestinian card
It is a coincidence, but a useful one, that on the 40th anniversary of an…
As Crises Build, Lebanese Fearful of a Failed State
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 4 — A few miles from Mona Abboud’s bookstore in Tripoli, passengers…
Pakistan might be in the midst of its first televised revolution
As TV Coverage Feeds Protests, Musharraf Reacts HARIPUR, Pakistan — Every day, Taj Mohammed Abbasi…
Bhutto Talks of Return to Pakistan, and Maybe Power
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 3 — Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is stirring up Pakistani politics…
From the NYT: The Flight From Iraq
I. Roads to Damascus At a meeting in mid-April in Geneva, held by António Guterres,…
Another Black Friday for the Coptic Christians of Egypt
The assault on the Coptic residents of the village of Bemha, Al-Ayat, Giza, on 11…
S. Korea and the Gulf: Another golden chance
It was in the mid-1970s when South Korea succeeded for the first time in its…
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights & Womens Petition Committee :
A Bahraini mother risks losing custody of her child to a husband under whose care…
A Bit of World Governing
Because there are no borders in the sky, national policies must fall by the wayside…
PAKISTAN: THE GENERAL AND THE ARMY: WHAT A FALL
London: Pakistani media never had it so good. It is having a field day in…
Liberal Lebanon Worth saving, or the hell with it?
Last week, while being driven through Chicago, I heard one Flynt Leverett speaking in a…
Pervez Musharraf’s Minions of Terror
Pervez HoodbhoyAfter his ill-advised dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court ignited a…
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Ethical education is indispensable for the well-being both of individuals and societies. For the individual,…
SALAFIST ISLAM SPAWNS TERRORISM
At the very roots of the violence is an ideological interpretation of the Koran, rather…
“Thou Shalt Not Lie”
School children who see the exhibits in the Creation Museum in Kentucky will be confused…
PAKISTANI GENERALS MUST ACT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
Not many countries in the world would envy Pakistan for being constantly in the focus…
Professor Menahem Milson on The Saudi Novel The Girls of Riyadh
In an April 14, 2007 interview on an Arabic program on Israeli TV, Professor Menahem…
A serious blow to Taliban’s dreams
The Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan seems to be in trouble. After it had lost three…
Embrace democracy, Syria’s top dissident urges Assad
Syrian dissident Riad al-Turk urged President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to lead Syria on the…
Was Osama Right?
Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won’t change their view. D…
Unquantified successes? How Iraq has been won!!
‘Kerry’s and Kennedy’s and democrats’ shortsightedness on Iraq is a classic example of instant gratification…
America moves forward to the past
No sooner had Condoleezza Rice finished shaking hands with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem last…
Address to His Majesty, King of Bahrain, concerning failures of the Supreme Council for Women
His Majesty, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, may God bless him King of Bahrain…
Syrian Endgame
BY MICHAEL YOUNG, BEIRUT–This week Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting in the Egyptian…
In Jihadist Haven, a Goal: To Kill and Die in Iraq
ZARQA, Jordan — Abu Ibrahim considers his dead friends the lucky ones. Four died in…
Translate into law
Political parties, MPs and civil society organisations in Egypt are now busy investigating how the…
Amnesty International
Seven young men who were engaged in developing a youth discussion group and for having…
The Feb.2007, Arrests in Saudi Arabia : Terrorists or Civil society & democratic Activists?
To All, Worldwide, Human Rights & Civil Society’s Organizations, including UN-Council on Human Rights As…
General Musharraf’s Only Exit route
LONDON: Pakistan is in a fix. Some call it a defining moment others describe it…
Thumbs down on Talibanisation
Iqbal Latif Citizens of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against the…
After Guantanamo Bay Testimony Khaled Shaikh Mohammed Enigma still intact
The only two major terror operations for which Khaled Shaikh Mohammed claims no credit, in…
To the Arab Jews: Happy Passover!
In an article on the Arab reformist websites Aafaq (April 9, 2007) and Middle East…
Two openings March 14 might consider
Daily Star staff It’s never easy to discern movement in the midst of glacial stalemate,…
Pakistan’s Secular Origin needs to be Restored
Pakistan has come to be a failing state in the rapid process of being Talibanised.…
The blogosphere’s foreign informant
What is it about the blogosphere that can transform perfectly credible academics into unethical hit…
Political Tribalism in al-Ja’ashen, Yemen
The winds of change may be sweeping across Yemen. President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently appointed…
China’s book industry is lagging behind
My article on India’s huge book industry two weeks ago seems to have encouraged numerous…
Prepare for less attention in Paris
Jacques Chirac still has some weeks left in office, but as of this Sunday, when…
General Pervez Musharraf Threatens West
London: Certain signs precede certain events. Those who read celestial signs seem to believe that…
A divorce that Nasrallah cannot afford
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on Sunday formalized Hizbullah’s divorce from the rest of Lebanese society,…
Recognizing India’s huge book industry
India was recently the ‘Guest of Honour’ country at the Paris International Book Fair (PIBF),…