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Tariq Mehanna: Obama’s Latest Muslim Target

Post-9/11, Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and charity. They've been targeted, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied

Deal or No Deal in Palestine

Washington D.C. The Middle East has a new game to play. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plagued by internal and external pressure, issued a peace call for the ages during

A Different Perspective

Professor Wickham addressed an audience including both Midshipmen and USNA faculty members. She narrated her personal research experience in Middle East and especially Egypt.

Did Not I tell You !!??

As I have expected MBs in the parliament are rejecting and fighting Beyonce concert in Port Ghalib this weekend reopening a debate about raising similar issues in the parliament.

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines

Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper Haaretz eloquently

Livni: we must prevent the Goldstone report from reaching the security council

The Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, said that the Israeli government was disappointed that Russia voted in favour of the Goldstone Report at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

British MPs to meet Palestinian factions in Damascus including Hamas

A British parliamentary delegation currently visiting Syria is expected to hold a meeting with Palestinian factions based in Damascus including Hamas Movement, a well informed Palestinian source said on Sunday.

Surani: Goldstone’s report enjoys implementation mechanisms

Raji Al-Surani, the head of the Palestinian center for human rights, stated Wednesday that the new thing which sets Goldstone’s report apart is its talk about specific implementation mechanisms for

How Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

The African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress is sponsoring a series of lectures on Iraq history and society. Jonathan Lyons, a researcher at the Global Terrorism

Egypt’s Brotherhood is knocking

Reporting from Cairo - He doesn't seem a radical or a troublemaker, but to the Egyptian government, Abdel Fattah Rizk, a surgeon with a graying mustache and hands pink from