Middle East

In Stalin's Soviet Union, mention of the great dictator's name in any mass meeting could trigger a standing ovation. This became a problem. In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...

The ruling issued by the Egyptian Court for Urgent Matters that bans the Palestinian movement Hamas in Egypt is a very foolish ruling and may result in negative developments...

"The situation in Syria has reached the point to where we are now transferring blood from person to person, from those who have died to those who are in...

The recent decision of the Israeli Supreme Court on 11 March 2014, authorising the purchase of the Rajabi building in the H2 area of the city of Hebron to...

There's a story in the medical journal Emergency Physicians International, in which a Saudi doctor finds a male patient convulsing on the floor of his ward, unable to talk....

The Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, does not miss a single opportunity that allows him to demonstrate his fascist way of thinking and racist tendencies. Earlier this...

Stability is both the mantra and the brand of the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. He is prepared to pay any price to keep it. He will...

Last week I finished reading Abdel Bari Atwan's latest book, After Bin Laden: al-Qaeda, the Next Generation. This renowned Palestinian journalist is regarded as an international expert on al-Qaeda,...

There have been many discussions in the media about plans and schemes to liquidate the Palestinian refugee issue and some information about the framework deal – initiated by US...

The indigenous Palestinian population who remained within the State of Israel following the Nakba ('catastrophe') now number around one million. The multi-faceted systems of oppression under which they live...

The international crisis in Ukraine and the devastating tragedy that is the on-going Syrian Civil War have not only divided the world along lines reminiscent of the Cold War,...

To date, almost one million Syrian refugees are registered or waiting to be registered in Lebanon, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Every day Lebanon...

New data released by the Stockhold International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an authoritative research body covering the global arms trade, shows how UAE and Saudi Arabia are currently the...

Did we, the Arabs, truly change after we revolted against our tyrants? Did we truly revolt so we could change? Are we capable of changing simply by overthrowing those...

There is no need to speculate any further as to when and how the Syrian regime will fall because it has already fallen, specifically in the short battle that...

The peace negotiations which have embroiled Palestinians in further loss of land and autonomy have descended into a major capitulation to imperialist demands. Compromised before commencement due to an...

At the entrance of a Dead Sea resort located in the West Bank, Palestinian man Hazem paid his 70 shekels admission fee to the women sitting behind the desk....

Since the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza that ended eight days of war in November 2012, both sides have been engaged in what is known as...

Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, in an escalation of the campaign to stamp out the group across the region. Saudi Arabia's decree...

All the parties participating in the Geneva conference (the West, Russia and the Syrian regime) and the Iranians did not embark on this step without considering the implications of...

The snow storm that hit Palestine was at its peak on 17 December 2013, but that did not prevent dozens of Palestinian youth from climbing up Carmel Mountain to...

The Hamas-Fatah "reconciliation" process is one of the most long-running and interminable dramas in the Palestinian sphere, second only to the Israeli-American "peace process" – which is still being...

Despite the resumption of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations last July, Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government has tightened its siege of the Gaza Strip, increased military incursions and missile attacks on the...

I ask myself every day, what has happened to the political leaders in the Arab Gulf to put us in the situation that we are in today? Have they...

Following serious cajoling by the US, the European Union and arm twisting by Arab governments, the Palestinians entered what was to be nine months of negotiations with Israel. The...

This week, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, went to Washington to meet with the US president, Barack Obama. He did so under heavy pressure, as...

Enough is enough; the situation has become unbearable! Last week there was a conference held in Baghdad hosted by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. It will rank alongside all...

It is unfortunate that the Palestinian cause is being let down these days by the shameful war of words between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his "opponent", Colonel Mohammad...

This story began with the emergence of the Zionist movement and their determination to establish a Jewish state in the Promised Land, also known as Palestine, at the expense...

Israel's most recent murderous rampage elicited a spectrum fluctuating between statements and silence from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and James Rawley, UN deputy special coordinator for the Middle...

Photographs smuggled out of Syria earlier this year and released by an international team of lawyers purported to illustrate the systematic and widespread torture used by the Syrian regime...

Yesterday, seven men from the village of Anata in the West Bank stood in court. While the specific charges against them were unknown, the crime that has put them...