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The Doha Summit: A user’s guide

On Sunday, the leaders of the Arab world are scheduled to converge on the Doha Sheraton (where I recently spent two insomnia-filled nights myself) for the 21st regular Arab Summit

Will the Real Obama Middle East Strategy Please Stand Up?

I want to thank Foreign Policy.com and Marc for inviting me to post on my trip to the Gulf. While I was in Kuwait, a prominent American scholar on the

Khalid Michal Interview by Paul McGeough

Khalid Michal Interview By Paul McGEOUGH, exclusive 3hr meeting at his Damascus headquarters

Turkey starts local polls

Turkish voters are set to head to the polls for nationwide local elections seen as an indicator of support for the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP)

France calls Gaza ’open-air prison’

France has warned that the Gaza Strip cannot remain an ’open-air prison’ forever, urging Israel to lift the blockade on the territory

Activists bike to end Israel’s ’cycle of violence’

Cycling for peace is the newest campaign by European peace activists who hopped on their bikes and set out across Europe to petition their governments to bring an end to

Muslim Brotherhood leader to step down

The leader of Egypt’s most powerful opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is planning to step down next year

Shame on us!

What will happen next? Will Palestinian kids be duped to play music to Israeli pilots who exterminated Gaza children with White Phosphorus?

Hamas: Obama will be judged through his deeds

The Hamas Movement stated Friday that the judgment on the new American administration led by president Barack Obama depends on the concrete steps it will take to restore the usurped

There is no one Islam, but many Islams

At a gathering of experts in international humanitarian law (IHL) in Geneva this week, much of the focus was on countries and societies where Muslims form a majority of the