Opinion

Outraged media gathered to protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in London yesterday over the detention and prosecution of journalists for alleged "terrorist" offences. The disgraceful behaviour of the unelected...

The United Nations has been worried about Iraq for decades. This is evident through the various reports that have been issued from its various organisations and agencies, ranging from...

Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egypt's contender to the presidency and leader of the recent coup-d'etat, headed to Moscow in early February for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin....

In December 2002, Jordan's King Abdullah II visited Washington. This was about three months before the Americans launched their war on Iraq. On his way to the American capital,...

As top diplomats from Iran, the European Union and six world powers convene in Vienna this week to negotiate the terms of a long-term agreement on Iran's controversial nuclear...

Yet again, we hear that President Mahmoud Abbas has more or less conceded the lawful right for Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland. Last year he told Israelis...

A recent article by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has become somewhat of an internet phenomenon. Since its publication, there are those who believe Levy's works to be a conspiracy...

An Israeli settler couple are attempting to sue a Bedouin community over the fumes being emitted from their bread oven. Yaakov and Bareket Goldstein from the illegal Israeli settlement...

The recent crisis in Turkish democracy, caused by the attempted bureaucratic coup by followers of the Gülen Movement against the civilian government, has led to a plethora of Western...

Israeli voices are calling for the right of return for Jewish people to their "historic homeland" and say that the time has come for them to return and be...

I read a story in Egypt's Al-Akhbar newspaper last month which suggested that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had sent brigades led by the "Mujahid" Ahmed Jabari to...

"There used to be a water well here but they've destroyed it too". 49-year-old construction worker Salah Swaid, or Abu Nazih as many refer to him, has been organizing...

Overshadowed by the Civil War in Syria, Yemen a troubled state on the periphery of the Middle East, is in danger of becoming a new site for proxy war...

The second round of peace talks on Syria has drawn to a close, with little evidence of any progress. The talks at Geneva were more than a year in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's belligerent insistence upon the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is magnified to the extent that the Zionists' hegemonic narrative attempts to dispel...

The failure of the Geneva II conference was expected due to the wide gap of understanding between the two delegations and groups of negotiators and each party's insistence on...

Theories about terrorism contain all branches of the social sciences, including law, politics, sociology, economics and religion. The definition of terrorism is still not absolute, but in this article...

While the most problematic issue facing post-revolution authorities in Egypt and Tunisia has been the economy, besides the deep state and foreign conspiracy, the situation is very different in...

The "peace process" freak show shambles on. Since August, Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials have met for secretive meetings supposedly intended to resolve the "conflict". Under the emerging "framework"...

This week, the head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, travelled to Israel and addressed the Knesset. It did not go according to plan. During Schulz's speech, several far-right...

It is cruel and very painful to hear news of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, who begged his lawyer, Mohamed Salim Al-Awa, for "a bit of money" just so he...

Food security is high on the agenda for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) this year, with member states convening next month to discuss how a region which imports between...

Martin Indyk, Australian-American former ambassador to Israel, is the chief envoy for US Secretary of State John Kerry's Arab-Israeli peace framework. He leads almost all the Jewish American negotiating...

Three years have passed since the first spark of the Arab revolutions ignited in Tunisia. Despite the fact that the Arab Spring has failed to achieve its goals clearly...

Recording the conversation that took place between Dr Mohamed Morsi and his lawyer Dr Mohamed Selim Al-Awa is a crime against the law, constitution, and judicial norms. It is...

Friday 14 February will mark the three-year anniversary of the 2011 uprisings that saw large crowds of Bahraini citizens taking to the streets in protest at the lack of...

The recent developments in Egypt and the region point to the pervasive influence of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) within the different sectors of the Egyptian state, without exception....

Proponents of the Palestinian resistance and opposition are straining themselves in their attempt to analyse the events that are taking place in the region. They engage in intense conversations...

The US administration does not possess a clear plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict; at best it can perhaps manage the conflict by using the worst stipulations of the...

Bernard Lewis celebrates this year his ninety-eighth birthday. Perhaps he can now depart our world, believing that some of his wishes have been fulfilled in redrawing the map of...

Those discussing future developments in light of the new presidency neglect the issue of political Islam in Egypt. That's strange as it is now a serious crisis that cannot...

Two days before the anniversary of the revolution, Amnesty International issued a report under the heading, "Roadmap to Repression: No End in Sight for Human Rights Violations". It painted...