A prominent Shi’ite religious scholar has declared that none including the Ministry of Justice or any other governmental organ can bring any sort of change in the recently drafted and promulgated Shi’ite Personal Law. Ayatollah Asif Mohsini,...

In a previous article, I suggested that the Arab regional geopolitical reality is marked by a combination of key regional non-Arab roles and interventions in addition to untraditional and significant roles by non-state actors. This reality results...

One of the problems with countries like Syria - secretive and authoritarian - is that whenever a bomb goes off or someone is assassinated, the list of possible suspects is...

What can be called a travesty of judiciary, the Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council has actually sentenced a rape victim to receive 200 lashes and prison while the perpetrators of humanity’s most heinous crime were allowed to walk...

As all of you are aware that Iraq is a country with many sectarian and ethnic groups. And in such countries it is very difficult to manage and administer the country with the satisfaction of every sect. Iraq before the occupation was a one...

In her last decade on earth, the Queen Mother joined Mother Teresa as the only two people no one on earth was ever allowed to say anything bad about. Even when she was photographed picking her nose, everyone just smiled and acted...

In Amman, Jordan, Republican Presidential candidate, Senator John S. McCain, told reporters that Iran was training Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. If it were in America where fiction and non-fiction are daily mixed by Republicans to achieve...

John McCain is making further rounds on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, along with two representatives of the U.S. government, a whispy turncoat (Joe Lieberman) and a whispy dandy (Lindsey Graham). Pegged essentially as “The...

During Saddam Hussein’s reign in Iraq, Sunni community has enjoyed a lot at the political and social levels. But now the time has changed, Iraq has governed by Shiite leaders who have support of US government. In their recent move, Iraqi...

That the American troops are not welcomed in Iraq any more is known to all and it is highly suspicious indeed when civilians are reported killed as an aftermath of fighting between insurgents and the US troops in the country. Many cry...