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Israel accused of rights abuses

An Israeli human rights group has accused the country’s government of using Palestinians as human shields during its raids on Nablus.The Israeli supreme court banned the practice two years ago. The

Jihad by other means

For those who are really seeking to understand political Islam, they would most probably admit the diversity of this phenomenon, which has emerged in the first place as a reaction

Lebanon and the Middle East crisis

THE PRESS here is portraying the opposition movement headed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, that is attempting to challenge the Siniora government, as a movement that is provoking sectarian conflict.

Let’s Hear It for the Moderates

The widely respected Reporters Without Borders correctly pointed out, "This sentence is a disgrace. Almost three years ago to the day, President Mubarak promised to abolish prison sentences for press

Foreign diplomats tour Hebron, see ethnic cleansing

A large number of foreign diplomats visited Hebron Tuesday, inspecting the City’s Old  quarter where a spate of ethnic cleansing by the Israeli occupation authorities forced thousands of local Palestinians

Muslim Brotherhood debates

There are a number of very interesting debates going on about the Muslim Brotherhood right now.  No, not the silly ones from my comment section - those are garden variety

What should we be telling Rice?

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is once again visiting the Middle East, this time with the hope of enlisting support for President Bush’s "new strategy" in Iraq and also

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Growing Sunni-Shiite Conflict

My colleague Olivier Guitta has just posted an excellent piece on the growing Sunni Shiite conflict. The heightened tensions between these two principal confessions of Islam is already putting great

Poor aable Palestinians to purchase enough food, warns WFP/FAO report

The United Nations there are warned that rising unemployment and poverty in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, coupled with economic suffocation, plows posing acute challenges to food security, leaving