Yemen from Nepotism to Internal Jihad
Do the Yemeni government’s actions against a band of Shiite rebels comprise an internal Jihad?…
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IF General Pervez Musharraf goes….
London: Hi-tech advancement in media has done wonders. I could not believe my eyes when…
For U.S. and Sadr, Wary Cooperation
By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 16, 2007; A01 BAGHDAD — U.S.…
Iraqis’ Progress Lags Behind Pace Set by Bush Plan
WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of…
Strategic Interests
World Defense Review columnist Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations…
Pakistan : Cheif Justice Removal Prelude to More Changes
London: Many Pakistanis have reasons not to feel envious of the role of most of…
From prison
Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Ms. Arbour, I still remember…
Lebanon’s price in Washington rises
The Daily Star Two Tuesdays ago, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt spent 35 minutes…
Deal with Syria, but first impose Lebanese sovereignty
Add Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht to the list of dignitaries who have left…
Syrians search for freedom online
After the Damascus Spring Shortly after I arrived in Damascus last June, Amr Nazir Salem,…
Hamas censors Libido in Palestinian folktales
Palestinian Intellectuals in the West Bank are protesting Hamas government decision to withdraw from schools…
The Mecca Agreement
A. Mahjar Barducci The Mecca agreement is not just a starting point for peace talks…
Foreign Policy, Reform and Terror in the Kingdom of Doublespeak
The Saudi Leadership must feel satisfied at the Iranian president’s visit to Riyad yesterday. Though…
Iranian women rights activists arrested
According to the AFP, Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists…
Sy Hersh: the dark side of spun a lot
It’s become a habit to greet whatever journalist Seymour Hersh writes with reverence. However, after…
Pakistan’s Catch-22 Dilemma
London: As Pakistan inches painstakingly on to complete its sixtieth year of existence the prospects…
Iranian Scholars Denounce Conference That Denied Holocaust
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the…
CATERING TO A LEBANESE CLICHÉ
SPIEGEL ONLINE World Press Photo Mix-Up The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows…
The death of common sense!!
The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get…
A liberal Shiite dignitary defies Hizbullah:
Pierre Akel While Lebanon’s ongoing crisis has enjoyed prominent media coverage all over the world,…
Trouble brewing in Iranian Balochistan
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a…
ZILLE HUMA MURDER A MESSAGE FOR BHUTTO
In a column recently I had expressed apprehensions that Pakistan rendered into a no-man’s land…
Iran’s Wages of Fanaticism
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah…
U.S. Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or…
GUNS AND STEEL ON THE SILK ROAD
By Wieland Wagner SPIEGEL ONLINE – China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim…
GUNS AND STEEL ON THE SILK ROAD
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far…
Dangerous Knowledge In Academe
The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to…
Strategic Interests
FROM WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW Published 22 Feb 07 World Defense Review columnist Violence, Islamism, and…
Learning nothing and forgetting nothing
Earlier this week, two statements neatly summarized the crisis in Lebanon. The first came from…
Saudis Cozy Up To Jews in America
Extra, extra, read all about it: The Saudi-Jewish entente is here. The Saudis are rolling…
Terror Officials See Al Qaeda Chiefs Regaining Power
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered…
The Man Behind the President
The president is nippy and abrasive. This is what all those who have worked closely…
A step backward in Moroccan freedoms
While the world is busy watching the developing crises in the Middle East, Morocco is…
Who will blink first, the US or Iran?
Recently, from his perch at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, Germany’s former foreign minister, Joschka…
Learning from Bangladesh
Poverty is not a shame. The shame is to deny its existence and to do…
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BUSH
On the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the United…
What do the Muslim Brothers want?
Problems on hold Over the past 15 months, since the November 2005 legislative elections, the…
Traffic Cop in an Unsettled Region
SAUDI ARABIA’S WORLD The Saudi Arabia which German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit this weekend…
Beirut and the sad autumn of the Arabs
In March 2005, Samir Kassir wrote a column titled, “Beirut, the springtime of the Arabs.”…
Give Saudi Women their Rights”!
She is a single mother of two, a well known Saudi journalist, and a women…
Assessing the Bush Administration’s Policy of ‘Constructive Instability’ (Part I): Lebanon and Syria*
March 15, 2005 The Bush Administration’s policy of “constructive instability” in the Middle East is…
Maulana Fazlur Rehman operated upon by Dr Mubashirformer personal physician of US President George W Bush.
The other day I wrote—- ”The role of religion and priest in society has a…
Vigil for Freedom of the Longest-Held Prisoner in Saudi Arabia-15 years
January 25, 2007 After being held in prisoner for 15 years for a remark he…
With Iran Ascendant, U.S. Is Seen at Fault
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait rarely rebuffs its…
Playing by Islamofascist rules
Some two years ago Saudi clerics issued fatwas forbidding Muslims to play soccer unless its…
When Don Quixote takes to the streets
So today is a “day of change,” to quote Suleiman Franjieh. He could be right.…
Vision of Rebuilding Lebanon Wanes
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon, Jan. 16 — In August, Mohammed al-Seyed watched with some pride as…
Advocates Want Stronger U.S. Effort to Free Democracy Activist
Support Builds for Libyan Dissident Human rights activists and Western diplomats are increasingly concerned about…
The Emperor has no clothes- World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, with holes on his socks
“ World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, with holes on his socks, is seen as he…