Opinion

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Countries' images in the past used to depend on what the people in those countries produce in terms of development, innovation, science and art. That...

By Maged Kayali Due to its lack of any hope in the peace negotiations with Israel, the Palestinian Authority has said that it may approach the United Nations, either...

By Tahir Al Udwan Settlement expansion continues 24/7 in occupied Jerusalem, yet the Arab world only expresses concern about this cancerous phenomenon when demolition threatens Al-Aqsa Mosque or is...

The brutal killing of an unarmed Palestinian as he lay asleep in his own bed has been "regretted" by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). I am sure that the...

By Khalid Amayreh The New Year bombing in Alexandria, which killed as many as 25 innocent people, nearly all of them Christian Copts, shocked Egypt and the Arab world....

By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israeli bulldozers demolished the historic Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.  This hotel was built in the 1930s as a...

Like a bolshie child Israel does not take criticism well. However, unlike a child, Israel does not just stamp its foot and pout when someone criticises it but instead,...

By Fahmi Howeidi Now that we have been unable to defend the unity of Sudan, it might benefit us to understand what has happened there. Perhaps that will alert...

It was not that it happened but the manner of Zain al-Abedin Ben Ali's departure from Tunisia which took everyone by surprise. The extraordinary speed, the humiliation and the...

The chief Palestinian negotiator appears disconnected from his own people and his wider Arab and Muslim constituency. One of the most shocking revelations of The Palestine Papers obtained by...

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have lashed out at the Al-Jazeera pan-Arab network for disclosing previously secret documents showing that PA negotiators had agreed to compromise over some cardinal issues...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied PalestineIsraeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, have been complaining about the increasing "de-legitimization" of the Zionist state across the world. Netanyahu, who is...

As the people of Palestine come to terms with the apparent betrayal of their rights by the people appointed to negotiate with the Israelis on behalf of the Palestinian...

We Told You So!Many people told them so — told them, meaning told the United States and Israel and even the overeager Palestinian leadership, that the Oslo agreement in...

As events in the Middle East unfold, one interesting aspect of the people-power discussion is the reticence of western pro-democracy governments in the face of real democracy on the...

As people across Egypt continue to rise against the brutal dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak it is quite clear they will not stop until he flies into exile. Quite clear...

No serious political analyst outside Egypt can claim to know President Hosni Mubarak more than the Egyptians themselves, and they are very people who have been out in the...

We are in the midst of a political revolution in the Arab and Muslim world which shows no signs of abating. Over the past week, we have witnessed one...

Who are the new revolutionaries filling the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a and other Arab cities? Where have they come from; to what social, cultural and political background do...

A spirit of awakening has gripped the Egyptian people with unprecedented and previously unthinkable defiance and bravery. They have awoken from their slumber and have realised, at last, that...

It is clear that the Muslim Brotherhood is one of the main forces within the political opposition behind the people's revolution against the Egyptian regime of President Hosni Mubarak....

Egypt is back again as it once was when millions of Arabs used to turn to the radio to listen to the voice of the Egyptian masses.  Those days,...

The Egyptian uprising has caused a stir in the world's capitals. The most important signs of concern were in the United States where there has been unusual interest both...

Democracy is the calling of the future, and is almost the dividing line between first world and third world countries. It calls for the guarantee of rights and freedoms...

On 15-16 October, 1991, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad spent more than 15 hours with James Baker, the then U.S. Secretary of State, discussing the terms and phrases which should...

At a meeting with the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on 18 February 2008, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner commended the Palestinian approach on the refugee issue, describing it...

In order to get a flavour of the new order in Egypt, I recommend looking at Egyptian state television. Following the forced retirement of ex-President Hosni Mubarak the tone...

More than a decade ago, a Gulf state's ambassador to the United Kingdom told me that he had asked a senior official in the British Foreign Office, "What do...

The wave of liberation revolutions sweeping the Arab world has shown the world that the Arabs are alive and deserve freedom and prepared to fight and die for it....

In an interview for the BBC during an emergency tour of the Middle East earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "Amid the opportunity for countries like...

I was struck by the huge difference between the response to my article "No Room for Western Hypocrisy" in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper and the response of Western readers to...

On 12 January 2009, US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman joined a group of Egyptian political bloggers from the Virtual Newsroom of the American...