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In whose name do they talk?

A second round of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are taking place under the auspices of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in Egypt's Red Sea

A Protest Stand In Solidarity with Tal al-Mallouhi

Tal is a high school student , born on 4/11/1991. On her blog she writes poetry for Palestine. She was arrested by SSI Damascus on 27/1/2009 for her activity on

Egypt: Political opposition accuses state run paper of crossing red line

Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram newspaper has been slammed for modifying a photograph to suggest that the Middle East talks were led by President Hosni Mubarak.

Three Sides of the Qu’ran Burning Triangle

Ever since the 1989 “Satanic Verses” by Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie, the Muslim public, inflamed by some of their religious leaders, has been easily incited if not directly manipulated.

When they shout: We strongly condemn

Martin Indyk wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "For once, hope in the Middle East". When I read it, I felt I should respond with an article

Mr. Obama: Thou shall not lie

In his remarks marking the passage of nine years since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on 11 September, 2001, President Obama said Americans ought to remain true

WAMY Chief fears violence

Saleh S. Al-Wohaibi, the head of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), has expressed fears the burning of copies of the Qura'n by a small church in Florida on

Hamas, don’t blow this chance

Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas’s threats to step up violence serve only to aid Israeli and allied Zionist propaganda. He calls on the movement to seize

America’s Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others? [Must read]

You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects for peace in the Holy Land.

Middle East loses trillions as US strikes record arms deals

Rick Rozoff views the United States’ growing arms exports to Middle East countries, which will spend an estimated 100 billion dollars on arms from the US by 2014, and the