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Commentary – the move away from big pan-Arab channels

The Arab media scene in the last few years of the first decade of the third millennium has totally changed from what we had seen in the first half of

The Gaza War, Theater and the Big Interview

The military phase of the Gaza war started on December 27, 2008, when Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip. It ended on 18 January, 2009, when Israel, and

Indispensable IslamOnline Must Not Fail

The widely popular Islamic website’s success story suddenly became a terrible nightmare for hundreds of IslamOnline’s principled employees, says Ramzy Baroud.

The Structural Hopelessness of US Policy Toward the Middle East

Daniel Larison has made one of the strongest arguments I’ve seen for the structural hopelessness of US policy toward the Middle East. In response to my piece calling on Obama

POMED Notes: FY2011 Appropriations and Middle East Democracy”

The Project on Middle East Democracy and the Heinrich B?ll Foundation co-hosted an event on Capitol Hill to mark the release of a new publication, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations

Egypt gov’t MPs call for shooting protesters

Egyptian ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) members of Parliament lashed out during a verbal battle with Muslim Brotherhood MPs over protesters in the country on Sunday and said Egyptian pro-democracy

A History of Western Involvement in the Middle East in One Lesson

"The Middle East" is a largely western invention, from its leaders to its forms of government to its national boundaries, and even in some degree to its cultures.

Retrial for Egypt business tycoon set for April 26

The retrial for Hisham Talaat Mustafa, the Egyptian business tycoon already found guilty for his involvement in the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim and sentenced to death, will

Can Obama erase ‘Bush nostalgia’ in the Middle East?

Obama has reverted to Clinton-era policies in the Middle East. But Arab reformers are nostalgic for something more like Bush’s “freedom agenda,” which helped usher in a promising moment for

Will Smith’s Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt’s History by Hollywood

Will Smith's latest project, The Last Pharaoh, is expected to be a mega action movie that will be seen by millions around the globe. Smith sits on the top of