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Stealth Jihad and Creeping Sharia, truly racist terms

Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek describing the latest fad by anti-Islamists to promote their semantic assault by using terms such as 'stealth jihad' from the same group which presented "Islamofacism"

Bad journalism at best

On August 19, the Israeli consulate in New York tweeted: #BBC "Panorama" presents arguably the most complete & thorough account of the #Flotilla.

The Arabs and Turkey

There is something in the Arab public space that hampers an objective discussion of Turkey's increasing political involvement in the region, its remarkable stances in favour of Arab causes, and

ElBaradei: I take the Muslim Brotherhood at their word.

In an interview published in the July 12 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel, the Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize laureate also discussed the desire for change in his homeland,

A squandered opportunity

When he took office, US President Barack Obama made it a priority to restore US credibility after the damage done by his predecessor. Obama pledged to revamp America’s relationship with

Thank you and goodbye

THE fate of the Arab world’s two most important states lies in the hands of ageing autocrats. Hosni Mubarak, an 82-year-old air-force general who has ruled Egypt since 1981, is

Beyond Islamists

This nagging issue just will not go away: How do local or foreign governments best deal with leading Islamist groups in the Middle East and South Asia? Do you engage,

It’s obvious, go talk to the Islamists

Since the rise of this generation of Islamists, native and Western governments alike have adopted two major strategies: politically containing movements like the Muslim Brotherhood by allowing them to have

Anti-incumbency feeling rises in Bahrain

As Bahrain heads toward elections for the lower house of Parliament in September or October, a climate of public unhappiness with the incumbents prevails.

Good politics from strange bedfellows

They make strange bedfellows. Mohammed ElBaradei is a staunch secular liberal; Mohammed Said al Katatni is the head of the Muslim Brotherhood bloc in Egypt’s parliament, a group of Islamist