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Media ReleaseFor immediate use Unprecedented interference in Al-Jazeera's broadcast signal across the Arab World                                Al-Jazeera has stated that their broadcast signal across the Arab region is facing interference on a...

The Fatah movement has called on the US to consider its interests in the Arab world with a vision, asking it to side with international law and international legitimacy...

A conference in Beirut has heard that the state of Palestine will be "the fruit of liberation". Hamas Political Bureau head Khaled Meshaal addressed the conference by satellite link...

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the Israeli Minister of Industry, has warned that hatred of Israel "is increasing" in the wake of the violence and anger across the Arab world triggered by...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestine has benefited from a special UNESCO scientific project, the first of its kind in the Arab world. The UN organisation has established the Chair in Astronomy,...

The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamed Amr, left for Tunis on Thursday to discuss cooperation between Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. A meeting with his counterparts of those countries is scheduled...

Figures released by the International Finance Corporation show that its investments for the fiscal year 2012 in the Middle East and North Africa have reached a record $2.9 billion....

An important military study prepared by Colonel Ronen Cohen addresses the "most dangerous" challenges facing Israel in 2013. Published by the Ministry of Defence in its Israel Defence house...

An Israeli official from Jerusalem told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Tuesday that "the Netanyahu government is leading Israel towards a disaster". The official spoke on condition of anonymity. He...

U.N Secretary- General, Ban Ki-Moon, has called on the international community to provide "effective aid" to Egypt to help it overcome the transition phase it currently faces. The U.N...

Hatnua leader and would-be Israeli Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni, said on Tuesday that she wants to reach a political agreement with the Palestinian Authority immediately, noting that she knows...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described the Arab Peace Initiative as "historic". Speaking to Israel's Channel Ten news programme he urged the Knesset not to miss out...

The chief of Israel's military intelligence, General Aviv Kochav, has said that the chaos in the Arab world favours Israel and is something that he believes should continue. Speaking...

During an address to a gathering of U.S. and Israeli politicians at the Haim Saban Centre for Middle East Studies' ninth forum of in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State,...

VIDEO On October 10 former CIA officer Michael Scheuer – once senior advisor for the Osama Bin Laden department – testified in front of a House Homeland Security Committee...

The Forum of Palestinian Doctors in Europe has claimed that the peoples' revolutions in the Arab world are a "decisive stage" in the region's history. The Paris-based organisation added...

In arresting Mr Salah for remarks he denies he made, a British home secretary is being even more intolerant than Israel Sheikh Raed Salah, an Israeli citizen who leads...

The former Director General of the Al-Jazeera Network became the first Muslim and non-Western journalist to deliver the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City University in London on...

It is no exaggeration to say that Israel is facing a major crisis, the causes of which go back to the creation of the state in 1948. Actions taken...

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....

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...

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....

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 resignation of the Director-General of satellite TV network Al-Jazeera has caused an uproar befitting the status of the man charged with drafting the policies of the most important...

It is believed widely in Egypt that US aid to the country is a sign of Egyptian weakness, but the Americans see it differently. If Egypt wasn't important strategically,...

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has just celebrated its 24th anniversary in an unusually turbulent political climate in Palestine and the Arab world. Changes in the international arena include...

The head of the Tunisian Islamist party and the brains behind a successful transitional coalition with two securalist parties has flown to Cairo to persuade the Muslim Brotherhood in...

Now that the results of Egypt's presidential elections have been declared, it is left to be seen exactly how much power the ruling junta will relinquish. With the proclamation...

Post-revolutionary Egypt should make a distinction between the peace treaty with Israel on the one hand, and partnership and complicity with it against the Palestinians on the other. We...

It is an exaggeration to say that President Mohamed Morsi's proposed visits to China and Iran are a turning point, but we hope so. They could pave the way...

The widespread impression in the Arab world, and most of the Third World, is that Western intelligence agencies, America's in particular, know everything about our countries, and pull all...

"Ashaab yureed isqat annidham." This phrase is ringing in the ears of tyrants and despots around the Arab world and means quite simply that the people want to bring...