Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Despite transport and communications difficulties in the 19th and early 20th century, our ancestors defied the dangers of oceans, death and disease to get to...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban When Nelson Mandela stood to greet the thousands of people gathered to watch the world cup final in South Africa, everyone stood to show respect to...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban At last, it has been acknowledged that Western intelligence agencies tortured innocent people for years in the notorious Guantanamo prison. The admission came through the British...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Our peoples in the region have become target for war mongers who spread pain, destruction, blockade and bloodshed. We have become the west's guinea pigs for...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The noise made by the publication of photos on Facebook by Israeli soldier, Abergil Eden, showing off her being a jailer of handcuffed and blindfolded...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Those who try to make the word 'terrorism' a synonym of the word 'Islam' try to brainwash us these days by the phrase "I am...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On August 29, 2010, Martin Indyk wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "For once, hope in the Middle East".  When I read...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On the International Day of Democracy, satellite TV channels focused on the type of democracy imported, together with blood baths, disasters, wars and American invasions...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Warning from the Obama administration's submission to Israeli pressure, in an interview with the Lebanese OTV, Michael Scheuer, a 'former' senior CIA officer, said: "Three hundred...

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban The United Nations Human Rights Council last week adopted a resolution condemning Israel for its attack on the aid flotilla on May 31.  The report said...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The recent and latest – but probably not the last – images of prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers showed a blindfolded Palestinian woman trying...

By Dr. Bouthaina ShaabanNews that a "strategic dialogue" was to take place between Israel and the United States was very brief; the news agencies hardly mentioned it. The names...

By Dr Bouthaina Shaaban When I asked in my previous article, "When will this conspiracy of silence end?" concerning more than eleven thousand Palestinian prisoners kidnapped from their homes...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The avalanche of top secret cables leaked from the American Departments of State and Defence is still an intriguing enigma to many commentators and political...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The children gathered around what was, moments ago, their safe haven, the reservoir of their memories, the focus of their happiness, the link between them...

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...

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...

Ernesto Che Guevara once said, "revolutions are made by adventurers and manipulated by opportunists".  I recalled this statement while following up Western analyses of Arab revolutions.  I found that...

In the middle of the stupendous social change sweeping Arab shores, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a landmark visit to Turkey. He has always refused to visit Turkey, and...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban After demolishing all the houses of Al-Arakib, the Israeli occupation authorities razed the village cemetery, completely erasing the memory and history of this Palestinian village,...

By Dr. Bouthaina ShaabanThe above title is actually a subtitle of a book by Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University with the full title of Uninhibited, Robust and...

It seems that Tunisia was destined to be the catalyst for the greatest event in modern Arab history. And it seems that Mohammad Bouzeizi, who set fire to himself...