Lebanon: Why rush a national-unity government?
Negotiations to create a new national-unity government have hit a brick wall, and that’s a…
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Left, Right, and Wrong: Desperately searching for a libertarian foreign policy
In his 2007 essay What’s Left?, Nick Cohen wonders how it is that many on…
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…
Islamism, A Disease Of The Muslim World
Literal interpretations of the Koran emerge when Islam finds itself in moments of crises and…
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…
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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…
Confidential : Presumed new al Qaida leader in Afghanistan is same Sheikh Saiid al Masri of Khartoum
According to exclusive Metransparent information, the man presented by « al Jazeera » channel (under…
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…
Destruction and deceit in North Lebanon
There are few pleasures these days as Lebanon descends into the kind of violence that…
U.S. about-face gives Israel green light for Syria dialogue
The Bush administration has changed its position regarding a possible receptive Israeli response to the…
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…
Baathist regime has dissident journalist sentenced to three years in jail
Reporters Without Borders Press release 13 May 2007 SYRIA Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at…
Despite early hope: like father, like son
The first time I met Anwar al-Bunni, in June 2005, one of Syria’s numerous state-owned…
Despite early hope: like father, like son
The first time I met Anwar al-Bunni, in June 2005, one of Syria’s numerous state-owned…
The UN Mideast envoy can’t understand ‘how Jews can surround people with fences.’
Intentionally or not, Israeli assaults put Siniora in an extremely difficult situation and put the…
America moves forward to the past
No sooner had Condoleezza Rice finished shaking hands with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem last…
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