Iraq’s “Shi’a House” (Al-Bayt Al-Shi’i) is in a state of political turmoil. After enduring 1300 years of subjugation before their ascent to power in 2005, Iraq’s Shi’a are on the

The most senior Shiite cleric in Lebanon, Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, has died. The intellectual guiding force of the Shiite Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, Fadlallah supported the armed fight against Israel

Decades ago, Lewis and like-minded scholars preached ‘modernisation' or ‘development' as the answer to the Middle East's woes. In the 1950s and 1960s, basing most of its analysis on Euro-American

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A car bomb killed 91 in Pakistan while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits. A bomb in Baghdad killed 155 fueling Sunni-Shiite tensions. A bomb in Kabul targeting UN

Muslim Cooperation is a well-known group in Nigeria. It is basically formed of young Muslim men and women, and includes students of Arabic and English schools, both local and public,

In the first high-profile meeting between top Sunni and Shiite scholars, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of Iran’s influential Expediency

Q: Can we say that the Shiite Hizbullah has come to lead the Arab Sunna in their war with Israel, and how do you evaluate the reaction of the Arab

Interview with Dr. Badr Al Nashi, president of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) How has participation in Kuwaiti governments since the 1990s affected the ICM? Cabinet formation is different in