Negotiations to create a new national-unity government have hit a brick wall, and that’s a relief. The opposition’s conditions for…
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In his 2007 essay What’s Left?, Nick Cohen wonders how it is that many on the political left have lost…
CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women…
The sums just don’t add up! From 2002-06, the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,…
Literal interpretations of the Koran emerge when Islam finds itself in moments of crises and are at the root of…
Two decades ago, there was nothing to talk about in terms of contacts or cooperation between Vietnam and the Arab…
London: In politics a week is a long time. Media’s freedom euphoria has been short lived. It has landed in…
It is a coincidence, but a useful one, that on the 40th anniversary of an Arab-Israeli war that prompted the…
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 4 — A few miles from Mona Abboud’s bookstore in Tripoli, passengers in cars ducked below the…
As TV Coverage Feeds Protests, Musharraf Reacts HARIPUR, Pakistan — Every day, Taj Mohammed Abbasi wheels his cart through dusty…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 3 — Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is stirring up Pakistani politics by quietly talking through intermediaries…
I. Roads to Damascus At a meeting in mid-April in Geneva, held by António Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner…
The assault on the Coptic residents of the village of Bemha, Al-Ayat, Giza, on 11 May 2007 is the latest…
It was in the mid-1970s when South Korea succeeded for the first time in its history in establishing a foothold…
A Bahraini mother risks losing custody of her child to a husband under whose care their now six-year-old daughter was…
Because there are no borders in the sky, national policies must fall by the wayside when it comes to environmental…
London: Pakistani media never had it so good. It is having a field day in reporting on everything under the…
Last week, while being driven through Chicago, I heard one Flynt Leverett speaking in a news report aired on National…
Pervez HoodbhoyAfter his ill-advised dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court ignited a firestorm of violent protests, President…
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Ethical education is indispensable for the well-being both of individuals and societies. For the individual, this kind of instruction motivates…
At the very roots of the violence is an ideological interpretation of the Koran, rather than mere reactions to Western…
School children who see the exhibits in the Creation Museum in Kentucky will be confused when they learn in school…
Not many countries in the world would envy Pakistan for being constantly in the focus of international media—adversely. For Pakistan…
According to exclusive Metransparent information, the man presented by « al Jazeera » channel (under the pseudonym « Mustpha Abu…
In an April 14, 2007 interview on an Arabic program on Israeli TV, Professor Menahem Milson [1] discussed the novel…
There are few pleasures these days as Lebanon descends into the kind of violence that Syria seems to manufacture so…
The Bush administration has changed its position regarding a possible receptive Israeli response to the calls of Syria’s President Bashar…
The Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan seems to be in trouble. After it had lost three of its prominent commanders, namely…
Syrian dissident Riad al-Turk urged President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to lead Syria on the path to democracy or face…
Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won’t change their view. D uring the Cold War, two…
‘Kerry’s and Kennedy’s and democrats’ shortsightedness on Iraq is a classic example of instant gratification in politics. The real change…
Reporters Without Borders Press release 13 May 2007 SYRIA Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at the three-year prison imposed today…
The first time I met Anwar al-Bunni, in June 2005, one of Syria’s numerous state-owned newspapers had just called him…
The first time I met Anwar al-Bunni, in June 2005, one of Syria’s numerous state-owned newspapers had just called him…
Intentionally or not, Israeli assaults put Siniora in an extremely difficult situation and put the regime in danger
No sooner had Condoleezza Rice finished shaking hands with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem last week at the Sharm el-Sheikh…
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