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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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