The attack and looting of Israel’s embassy in Cairo is an event as significant as the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Iran… Continue reading
Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 25-year old pacifist currently on a hunger strike in an Egyptian prison… Continue reading
On the front lines there are a lot of them, they are jihadists, dangerous, militant in their beliefs… Continue reading
The United States has recognized the Transitional National Council (TNC) of Libya as the provisional government of that country… Continue reading
In a real sense, there was more intellectual freedom in the Arabic-speaking world in 1930 or 1940 then there is today… Continue reading
As NATO jets bombed the military positions of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the watching rebels cheered… Continue reading
After months of rebellion in Syria and heavy repression there, the Obama Administration has finally called for the downfall of… Continue reading
There’s a real war going on with real massive human rights’ violations, real massacres, and real alternatives at stake… Continue reading
Asmaa Mahfouz, the April 6 Youth Movement leader who said she began the Egyptian revolution with a tweet… Continue reading
Thursday night, Aug. 11, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to set Syrian… Continue reading
Few things in Islam are as liable to provoke passion and violence as the issue of conversion… Continue reading
Amid widespread protests during this so-called “Arab Spring,” one place that has received relatively little media coverage is Iraqi Kurdistan… Continue reading
Horrifying images of bodies and limbs floating in the Orontes River in Hama were aired by Syrian state television early Thursday… Continue reading
ISNA News Agency reported last month that Google Plus, Google’s recently-launched social network, has been blocked by the authorities… Continue reading
Rania Rifaat is the ultimate secular-oriented, social media-using, Egyptian “Arab Spring” activist… Continue reading
Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero; Fouad Ajami isn’t… Continue reading
Wow, watch the less-than-four-minute video below and you get the flavor of the Middle East and the “Arab Spring” in every respect… Continue reading
Polarizing the society over religious and cultural identities has been the power tactic of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) almost all along… Continue reading
Where does Tunisia, the unlikely igniter of the Middle Eastern upheavals, stand on the democratic transition scale… Continue reading
Twenty years ago, I was a school kid chanting with my peers, “Our leader forever, the father, Hafez Assad!” Back then, I could not have imagined… Continue reading
This assessment is a bit more optimistic than mine, suggesting ways to limit the new government’s power… Continue reading
Dit boek van Abigail R. Esman beweegt moeiteloos heen en weer tussen haar diepe persoonlijke ervaringen… Lees verder
By the end of 2011 more than 250 million people in the Middle East may well be living under what are in reality anti-American Islamist governments… Continue reading
The AKP got almost everything it wanted. It will be in power for four more years, infiltrating institutions, producing a new constitution… Continue reading
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is expected to return to office for a third consecutive term as Turks began voting… Continue reading
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