In October 2013, the Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswany gave a talk in Paris, to promote the French translation of his new book. The event ended in chaos, as a...

When the Israelis finally complete their "Iron Dome" missile defence system they are more likely to consider another attack against the people of the Gaza Strip. Once again, the...

The shadow of the ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has died aged 85, has always had a peculiar place in my life. He was in part the trigger...

In the wake of the recent termination of cooperation with Israeli companies linked to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by three Dutch business giants, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans...

The issue of oil has jumped to prominence in the political relationship between Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil (the capital of the Kurdish region in Iraq), and with it has...

It is clear that the Arab region is turbulent. It is also clear that the political situation is in a state of confusing fluidity; alliances have collapsed while others...

The Israeli authorities have taken advantage of the shifts in the Arab scene and the media's preoccupation with these shifts to further Judaise the city of Jerusalem by means...

In the midst of the sudden and bloody surge of violence that has plagued Iraq's Anbar province over the past two weeks, reportedly claiming nearly 250 lives, the country's...

Contradictions regarding human rights and the exploitation of oppression emanating from the United Nations have culminated in Ban Ki-moon's statement regarding the death of Ariel Sharon. Mingling sadness and...

There are three objectives by means of which we can assess the Israeli policy towards the conflict in Syria, which are not masked by Tel Aviv's feigned indifference and...

The general picture of the reality in Iraq is that Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's regime is begging America to supply sophisticated weapons to combat terrorism. Foreign Minister Zebari has...

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...

When Israeli occupation's government of Benjamin Netanyahu began to officially call Palestinians and Arabs to recognize it as a "Jewish state", parties participating in the governing coalition started marketing...

When I interviewed Professor Avi Shlaim last month, he said that the current Israeli government was "is the most right-wing, the most hawkish, the most uncompromising … in Israel's...

When you find a report titled "The story of the secret meeting in Beirut: Lines of communication restored between Damascus and Washington" in the pro-resistance newspaper Al-Akhbar, it means...

The study, recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journal of Medicine, found that globally, the prevalence of depression was 4.4 per cent, while Afghanistan and the...

Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...

When you find a report titled "The story of the secret meeting in Beirut: Lines of communication restored between Damascus and Washington" in the pro-resistance newspaper Al-Akhbar, it means...

The study, recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journal of Medicine, found that globally, the prevalence of depression was 4.4 per cent, while Afghanistan and the...

Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...

It seems that Tunisia was destined to be the catalyst for the greatest event in modern Arab history. And it seems that Mohammad Bouzeizi, who set fire to himself...