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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto: After Bhutto

The world will long remember Benazir Bhutto as a modern Muslim woman who served two terms as Pakistan’s first woman Prime Minister: bright, attractive, articulate, talented, courageous, charismatic, an astute

Cooking Like an Egyptian

To learn about my heritage, I took classes in Arab politics and history. But they couldn’t make up for what I’d missed in the kitchen.

You’re Damn Right I’m Angry – Why Isn’t Everybody?

I write articles each week with titles like “Everything I Need to Know About the Regressive Right I Learned In Junior High”, or “Conservatism Is Politics For Kindergartners”, or “Schadenfreude

HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS WORRY ABOUT SURVIVAL

It seems that wherever one looks in the Middle East, Christians are leaving. Whether escaping from the 15 years of civil war in Lebanon, the economic and political instability in

IOF shelling wound seven Palestinian resistance fighters

Seven Palestinian resistance fighters, mostly affiliated with the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, were wounded at dawn Thursday in an IOF aerial shelling east of Khan

Hamas asks Abbas to prove his seriousness and sack Fayyad government

The Hamas Movement on Thursday asked PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to prove his seriousness in calling for dialogue and to announce commitment to unconditional national dialogue to confront the Israeli

Haaretz: Israeli gov’t published a bid for building 440 settlement units in OJ

The Israeli Ha’aretz newspaper revealed that Israeli land administration published last Sunday a bid announcement for the lease of land plots for the building of 440 new settlement units in

Five Palestinians killed in IOF shelling including a mother and her daughter

Five Palestinians were killed in IOF shelling on the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Younis including four of one family along with a resistance fighter.ح

Turkey and Indonesia Muslim Success Stories Economic Upturn in Egypt

Here are some trends that I hope continue and deepen in 2008. Turkey and Indonesia are making strides as secular democracies in Muslim-majority countries, with impressive political participation on the

Palestinians killed in Gaza raids

Up to eight Palestinians have been killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli ground and air raids targeting the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory of Gaza. The dead include a mother and