Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Al-Thani has affirmed that Arab and international parties had blocked the formation of a Palestinian national unity government.The minister affirmed in a statement

In a show of unequivocal support for the PA government’s steadfast stands on constants of the Palestinian people and Arab and Muslim Ummah, tens of Ulama (Islamic scholars) and intellectuals

Leaders of organizations, party chairmen and prominent figures in the Muslim world, topped by the Muslim Brotherhood, released a statement on October 14, 2006, rejecting pressure exerted by the quartet

In a very well written series of five articles, the authors Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry argue for the need for the West to engage in direct dialogue, or what

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As Arab and Muslim intellectuals and activists concerned about the promotion of democracy in our region, we call on America and its president to reaffirm -- in words and actions

In his Article "Egypt: Leap toward Reform or Succession", Joshua Stacher from the Carengie Endowment Center in Washington DC and a political lecturer at the British University in Cairo, gives

In line with the government policy of imposing more exceptional and freedom restricting laws, the Ministry of Wakf (endowment) recently presented a bill banning gatherings and demonstrations inside mosques courtyards, with

When Caribou Coffee went public last year, sharp-eyed investors noticed some unusual promises in its prospectus. Caribou, the nation’s second-largest coffeehouse chain, said it would never sell pork or porn.

111 Bahraini candidates including 11 women have submitted their applications to stand for the upcoming parliamentary election in Bahrain. Centers accepting candidates’s requests to run for the elections opened on