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...no more parleys with Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers shaking hands across a table. Not until the Palestinians give up any notion of vanquishing Israel. "I refuse to discuss final status until our side wins," Pipes says.
Swedish artist Lars Vilks is taking no chances. After a cartoon he drew of the Prophet Muhammad was published, the cartoonist received death threats and has temporarily gone into hiding under police protection.
Zainab Al-Suwaij has opened a new office of her organization, American Islamic Congress, in Cairo. The office will be run by Dalia Ziada, a blogger and a survivor of FGM ("female genital mutilation").
Elections in Morocco that were projected to hand large gains to a moderate Islamic party on Friday ended with a record low voter turnout and only incremental changes to the parliament's makeup.
A shopkeeper in Cairo, who gave his name as only as Mohamed, said bin Laden's call was not serious.
The Leader conducts business in a huge Bedouin tent covered with rugs inside a compound where camels roam free. This is where he receives rebel leaders who make individual pilgrimages to the tent in suburban Tripoli, Libya, and often leave with a Samsonite bag filled with cash.
Early in 2003, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman applied a rule common in retail pottery stores, "You break it, you own it," to the then-impending invasion in Iraq.
Tariq Ali on lessons for the Middle East from Latin America.
If you talk to serious students of international relations (graduate students, PhD candidates, professors, etc), the name Samuel Huntington will usually elicit a groan. But in recently re-reading Huntington's infamous 1993 article "The Clash of Civilizations," which he la …
Two major studies conducted in 2005 of the situation of women in the Arab Middle East states all came to the same conclusion: Women there are lagging behind the rest of the world.
The muted giggles begin as soon as Dr. Heba Kotb is introduced and makes her way to the podium. It's not exactly the most dignified reception from her colleagues at Cairo University, but she's used to it.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called on Israel Friday to adopt the Saudi peace initiative that calls for normalized ties between Israel and the Arab world in return for a full Israeli retreat from lands captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
As many are aware, I am an archaeologist who has thus far focused on the archaeology of Jordan (specifically the Roman period Provincia Arabia).
It's a clear sign of authoritarianism that the independent voices, the critical tongues, are silenced. 2006 was the most dangerous year to be a journalist, speaking in global terms. Journalists in the Arab world put their lives at risk by every word they type and publish:
"Islamicist movements are becoming increasingly influential in the Arab world. Yet with few exceptions, phenomena like fundamentalism and religiously motivated terror have hardly been dealt with in Arabic literature."
In the Middle East, a gulf has developed between an elite that has profited from Westernization and the impoverished masses. It is the latter who, in the name of religion, are lured into anti-Western extremism, thus perpetuating the vicious circle of insecurity.
The FP blog comments on the recent publication of the 4th UNDP Arab Human Development Report: "This AHDR report denies that Islam is responsible for male dominance, and instead cites cultural and political factors, as well as wars, occupation and terrorism as obstacles to equalit …
Interesting article about Sheik Lubna al-Qassimi, the UAE's minister of economy and planning and perhaps one of the most powerful women in the Arab world.
Out of curiosity, did anyone see this story in any western media source? Anyone even heard of this? I didn't think so. I guess crazy people are just more fun.
(There is no more to this news clip. Click on link to confirm source and citation) The Muslim world must correct Western misperceptions created by ``semiliterate clerics'' about Islam as a religion that fosters militant extremism, Pakistan's president said Monday.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, during the first hours of new military maneuvers, Iranian state-run television said Thursday.
"One of the greatest jokes Mr. Bush makes is when he says he wants to export democracy. Democracy is not something to get exported or be given," Khatami said.
The Late Columbia Professor Edward W. Said was not a normal and bureaucratic academic sitting in his air-conditioned office, working on his research. Noted as a Palestinian activist in America, Said was also a critic on post-colonial literatures and music.
There are two key elements to The Ahab Complex, this columnist says: The megalomanic leader and the spineless followers. He views Moby Dick as a parable of modern society, drawn towards its own destruction by paranoia and projection.
Twenty-five years after Sadat's assassination, Egypt has lost its status as leader of Arab world. Its economy is faltering, relations with Washington and Israel are not moving forward,political system is atrophied, and Muslim Brotherhood has not remained idle.
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