Al Sharq Al Awsat

A senior member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council has said that Palestinian reconciliation is now "inevitable". Without it, claimed Nabil Amr, "other achievements make no sense". In exclusive statements to...

By Bilal Al-Hasan Al-Sharq Al-Awsat18 October 2009 The popular Palestinian and Arab campaign against the PA's decision to defer the Goldstone report and not refer it to the Security...

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...

The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, has been the focus of much Arab media interest in the wake of the historic reconciliation agreement between Fatah and...

By Bilal Al-Hassan Palestinian acceptance of direct negotiations with Israel without preconditions is in effect a return to square one in the process of political settlement between the two...