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Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain is at his wits end. With the economic crisis dominating headlines and people thinking first and foremost about their wallet suddenly what was until recently a close election with Messer McCain leading for...
Arab and Jewish residents of the northern Israeli city of Acre clashed during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, police and an Arab lawmaker said Thursday.
Iraq’s prime minister welcomed the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest high-level visit by regional Arab dignitaries.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says the Arab world will not accept any partial or interim peace deal with Israel because he says history has shown that such temporary arrangements tend to become permanent.
Two of the Arab world’s most prominent Muslim theologians have waded into a bitter exchange of barbs, engaging in a debate that is a small-scale rendition of the worsening animosity between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam.
A federal appeals court says it was constitutional for the United States to require visitors from two dozen Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with immigration authorities.
Iraqi composer Naseer Shamma is such a master of the traditional Arab stringed instrument called the oud that he has taught himself to play one-handed.
Iran on Tuesday banned the Tehran bureau chief for the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel and told him to leave the country as soon as possible, the network said.
Lebanon’s prime minister traveled to Baghdad on Wednesday in only the third such visit by a top Arab leader since the U.S.-led invasion five and a half years ago.
The Iraqi government says Jordan’s King Abdullah has come to Baghdad for talks with Iraqi leaders. He is the first Arab head of state to visit the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Kuwait’s foreign minister says Iran’s renewed threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf amount to a “punishment” of its Arab neighbors.
Despite of a large number of women rights movement across the globe it seems that the larger portion of the fruits of women rights have gone to the woman of the western world while their sisters, especially in the Islamic world still remain deprived...
A section of poor Muslim women often face the brutality of a male-dominated society. Women and girls all over the world(of all religions and nationalities)are not safe from violence and exploitation in the so called ‘age of globalization and...
It is unfortunate but true, that a woman is always treated as a ’sex object’ in all cultures. It is more so true in the ultra-conservative Arab society, where a woman is often stigmatized for having ‘breast cancer’. To talk about breast cancer is...
Amid the Iraqi chaos, surmounting violence and future predicament there is no respite for the people, because now the dark clouds of partition are hovering over the country with Kurds demanding a separate country. If such an option becomes viable for...
US image in the world is fast declining and the same equation rhymes with Bush in America because of ‘war on terror’ that proved a fatal decision in Afghanistan and Iraq. Amid the grave situation, now the Kurds warned of a ‘real civil war’ like...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most sensitive issues and is most talked about. Mr. Fayyad’s meeting with Ms. Livni is surely for the benefit of both concerned countries. Meeting was held in Jerusalem to show support to Mahmoud Abbas who...
Saudi Arabia refused to receive Iraqi Prime minister Al-Maliki, in the country - for the reason that he hasn’t done enough to protect the Sunni community in Iraq and for his role in fostering the Iranian influence in Iraq.
Al-Maliki made futile...
Ironically, in the world we live in, humanity and nationalism do not seem to be going hand in hand as both the pioneering ideas seems to be completely opposite and paradoxical yet equally compelling.
Recently, in an editorial of New York Sun, Youssef...
A Freedom House report in the United States of America said that textbooks used in Saudi Arabia’s schools were promoting religious intolerance. Religions other than the Salafi branch of Islam are demonised, beginning in the first grade. ‘Every religion...
About 150 masked youths brandishing sticks and baseball bats clashed with the police late Monday night and early Tuesday in two suburbs east of Paris, the worst such violence since the unrest that reverberated through France in November, reports The New...
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