SPIEGEL ONLINE World Press Photo Mix-Up The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows upscale young Lebanese men and…
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The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get hold of their enemy defies…
Pierre Akel While Lebanon’s ongoing crisis has enjoyed prominent media coverage all over the world, no one seemed to notice…
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a result of its uprising against…
In a column recently I had expressed apprehensions that Pakistan rendered into a no-man’s land and an epicentre of international…
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah regime is facing a little-noticed…
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al…
By Wieland Wagner SPIEGEL ONLINE – China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the…
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns…
The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to discuss Islam, Muslims, or Arabs…
FROM WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW Published 22 Feb 07 World Defense Review columnist Violence, Islamism, and Terror in the Sahel Earlier…
Earlier this week, two statements neatly summarized the crisis in Lebanon. The first came from the EU’s representative in Beirut,…
Extra, extra, read all about it: The Saudi-Jewish entente is here. The Saudis are rolling out a charm offensive and…
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over…
The president is nippy and abrasive. This is what all those who have worked closely with him during his 2-month…
While the world is busy watching the developing crises in the Middle East, Morocco is independently moving toward modernization, but…
Recently, from his perch at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, Germany’s former foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, wrote a commentary warning…
Poverty is not a shame. The shame is to deny its existence and to do nothing to combat it. Bearing…
On the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the United States reaffirms its support for…
Problems on hold Over the past 15 months, since the November 2005 legislative elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) maintained a…
SAUDI ARABIA’S WORLD The Saudi Arabia which German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit this weekend sees itself as a force…
In March 2005, Samir Kassir wrote a column titled, “Beirut, the springtime of the Arabs.” Martyrs Square was then awash…
She is a single mother of two, a well known Saudi journalist, and a women activist. And she decided to…
March 15, 2005 The Bush Administration’s policy of “constructive instability” in the Middle East is facing a critical juncture in…
The other day I wrote—- ”The role of religion and priest in society has a direct bearing on the rate…
January 25, 2007 After being held in prisoner for 15 years for a remark he made as a young boy,…
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait rarely rebuffs its ally, the United States, partly…
Some two years ago Saudi clerics issued fatwas forbidding Muslims to play soccer unless its rules were replaced by “Islamic…
So today is a “day of change,” to quote Suleiman Franjieh. He could be right. That’s because, as of tomorrow,…
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon, Jan. 16 — In August, Mohammed al-Seyed watched with some pride as tractors driven by Hezbollah men…
Support Builds for Libyan Dissident Human rights activists and Western diplomats are increasingly concerned about the welfare of Fathi al-Jahmi,…
“ World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, with holes on his socks, is seen as he leaves from the Ottoman era…