When three Gulf States decided to withdraw their ambassadors from Doha in March 2014, I wrote that the problem for those countries was not Qatar but Egypt. Some countries, with...

Amidst the unprecedented dirty war that is being waged against Qatar by the counter-revolution regimes, the issues of Qatar's support for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Muslim...

It makes you think when a Syrian official comments on the Douma massacres, in which hundreds were killed last week, and says that they did not actually occur. According...

A number of indications surfaced over the past few weeks, suggesting that the "end game" in the Syrian crisis has begun. The biggest indication of this is Turkey's involvement...

Over a year ago, I wrote an article where I warned of the "Somalisation of Egypt" and how this outcome is no longer merely a possibility but a blatant...

Within the framework of the "War on Terror", the administration of former US President George W. Bush proposed the idea of promoting democracy in the Middle East as an...

In Egypt, the elected president is suffering in jail and his supporters are arguing that he is the sole legitimate president, while the members of the elected parliament have...

The most striking thing about the plight of Gaza and its people these days is not the complete paralysis of the Arabs in the face of the barbaric Israeli...

In May 2003, less than a month before Baghdad's fall, I participated in the Ralph Miliband Lecture Series at the London School of Economics and Political Science. These lectures...

The anniversary of June 30th is approaching in the Nile Valley; an anniversary that has the same taste in both Egypt and Sudan. In both countries, this anniversary marks...

Over two years ago, on April 3, 2012, I wrote in this same newspaper an article in which I propose the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or...

The last time I visited Tunisia's capital over a quarter of a century ago, we behaved like the criminals in detective movies. In order to visit Sheikh Rashed al-Ghannouchi,...

We can debate whether the incident in Egypt was a popular revolution against Muslim Brotherhood tyranny or a military coup against its democratic legitimacy, but in my view the...

Since ancient times, members of the judiciary have served as the wise, careful, farsighted and impartial arbitrators in litigious disputes. The early Muslim leaders started a trend which no...

The narrative of the Syrian revolution has been transformed from a story of peaceful protests demanding democracy to a civil war involving all members of Syrian society. In fact,...

Last week, media sources revealed that a shipment of tear gas on its way from South Korea to Bahrain was stopped after a campaign by human rights and humanitarian...