Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and adviser to the International Quartet, is the Co-director of Conflicts Forum. An edited version of

As the U.S. convenes a Mideast summit in Annapolis, Maryland today, we spend the hour on the Israeli-Palestine conflict with two of the world’s leading thinkers: former South African Archbishop

Sociologist Saadeddin Ibrahim said he was lobbying Washington and the European Union to demand progress toward more judicial independence, greater media and civil society freedoms, and internationally supervised elections in

Debate has recently reawakened in the Arab media over the initiative for dialogue between the West and the political Islam movements, in particular the Muslim Brotherhood. The debate has resurged

The Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media to Challenge Authority Robert Fisk - chief Middle East correspondent of the London Independent - about Iraq, Palestinian and Israeli elections, the corporate

Last month Iran broke United Nations seals on the uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, triggering a diplomatic crisis that most believe almost certainly will lead to a standoff with United States,

U.S. Department of State transcript of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s interview with The Washington Post editorial board on Dec. 14, 2006, in Washington, D.C. QUESTION: Thank you very much

The U.S. vetoed UN draft resolution condemning the Israeli massacre in Beit Hanoun, which killed 18 members of a Palestinian family and wounded scores others, mostly women and children, in

Since he became leader of the Islamic Action Front Party (IAFP), less than a year ago, the relation between the party and the Jordanian regime snowballed so much, starting from

The Iraqi situation represents one of the most volatile scenes around the world. After the end of the Gulf War II and the US occupation, all believed that matters would