Added on 06/08/2012
Richard Silverstein
Al Qaeda , Arab Spring , Bibi Netanyahu , Dick Cheney , Egypt , Egyptian military , Egyptian police , Ehud Barak , Eilat , Gaza , Haaretz , Hamas , IDF , Iran , Islamists , Israel , Israeli army , Michael Oren , Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Pakistan , Ramadan , Shin Bet , Sinai , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , United States , Yemen
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: There are forces out there seeking to capitalize on the Arab Spring: It’s s a different world Israel is facing. A harsher world, one more difficult to control.
Added on 23/07/2012
Tabsir
Al Qaeda , Egypt , Hamas , Hizballah , Islam , Jordan , Lebanon , Middle East , Taliban , Tunisia , Turkey
DANIEL M. VARISCO: A recently released survey by the influential Pew Foundation has found that support among ordinary citizens for extremists is very low.
Added on 18/07/2012
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Al Qaeda , Baghdad , Europe , Iran , Iraq , Literature , London , United Kingdom , William Shakespeare
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: A new version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set in Iraq which is now playing in London is winning over Iraqis and non-Iraqis alike.
Added on 06/07/2012
Juan Cole
Ahmad Shafiq , Al Qaeda , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Arab Spring , Bahrain , Brazil , Canada , Catholic Church , Congress , constitutional law , Egypt , Energy , France , George III , House of Representatives , Islah party , Ku Klux Klan , Libya , Massachusetts , Muhammad Mursi , Muslim Brotherhood , Oman , Poland , Prime Minister , Quebec , Red Cross , South Carolina , Syria , Tahrir Square , Thomas Jefferson , Tunisia , United States , Yemen
JUAN COLE: Americans have given up too soon on the Arab Spring. They have bought into overly large generalizations, some of them purveyed by right wing American pundits…
Added on 03/07/2012
Rob L. Wagner
Ahmed Shafiq , Al Qaeda , America , Bashar al-Assad , Bush Administration , Condoleezza Rice , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Egyptian parliament , Freedom and Justice Party , George Bush , Hamas , Hizballah , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Justice Party , Middle East , Mohammed Morsi , Muslim Brotherhood , Northern Ireland , Obama , Obama administration , President , Secretary of State , Sinai Peninsula , Syria , Syrian government , Tahrir Square , United States , Washington , White House , World Trade Center
ROB L. WAGNER: There’s no doubt that alarm bells were ringing in Washington with the news of Morsi’s election. It does, though, present an opportunity
Added on 28/06/2012
Ramzy Baroud
Al Qaeda , Arab League , Beirut , Fatah , Israel , Israeli army , Jordan , Lebanese army , Lebanese government , Lebanon , Media outlets , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Territories , Palestinians , Real Estate , Syria , The Daily Star , Tripoli , United Nations
RAMZY BAROUD: 450,000 UN-registered refugees live in Lebanon. They subsist in poverty, living in 12 concentration style camps, denied basic rights and lack nominal political horizons.
Added on 18/06/2012
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Al-Ahram Center , Cairo , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Freedom and Justice Party , Hosni Mubarak , Mubarak government , Muhammad Mursi , Muslim Brotherhood , Omar Suleiman , President , Qatar , Qatari Government , Russia , SCAF , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Tahrir Square , UN Court , United States , Washington
JUAN COLE: There seems to be no rational explanation why SCAF has moved now against parliament. That leaves only the irrational.
Added on 12/06/2012
Common Ground News Service
Al Qaeda , Democracy , Egypt , interim President , International Criminal Court , Libya , National Transitional Council , Pakistan , Saif Gaddafi , Tripoli , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States
LINDSEY HILSUM, INFORMED COMMENT: It’s the absence of true democracy that has resulted in the myriad problems that Libya’s facing
Added on 03/06/2012
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Baath Party in Syria , Baghdad , Bahrain , Barack Obama , Bin Laden , Damascus , Eastern Mediterranean , Egypt , Egyptian military , Gaza , George W. Bush , Governor , Hamas , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Libya , Mediterranean , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Muslim Brotherhood , Northern Iraq , President , Qatar , Republican Party , Romney , Syria , Syrian Muslim Brotherhood , Tripoli , Tunisia , Turkey , United States , West Bank , Workers Party
JUAN COLE: Mitt Romney is flip-flopping on whether ‘Muslims Are Bad’ or that the U.S should supply them with sophisticated weapons.
Added on 31/05/2012
Ramzy Baroud
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi , Abdullah Saleh , Al Qaeda , Arabian Peninsula , Oxfam , Pentagon , President , Somalia , The Guardian , United Nations , United States , Washington , Yemen , Yemeni government
RAMZY BAROUD: The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is largely rooted in the fact that the country is an open field of competing interests…
Added on 25/05/2012
Francis Matthew
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Colin Powell , Eastern Europe , Europe , European Union , George W. Bush , Iraq , Italy , KGB , Libya , NATO , North America , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Paranoia , political solutions , Putin , Russia , Syria , Taliban , United Nations , United States , west Germany , Western Europe , White House , Yugoslavia
FRANCIS MATTHEW: It is sad young Arabs and Muslims see NATO as an expeditionary force striking at the convenience of the White House
Added on 25/05/2012
Editor, MEP
Al Qaeda , Jane Ferguson , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , Yemen
VIDEO: Saudi Arabia has pledged more than three billion dollars in aid to its neighbour Yemen.
Added on 22/05/2012
Richard Silverstein
Al Qaeda , Army , Border Police , Croatia , Ehud Barak , Energy , Gandhi , IDF , International Criminal Court , Israel , M-16 , Nablus , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , police officer , Serbia , State Terrorism , Terrorism , West Bank
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Know you will be held accountable. That Jews with any moral sense renounce you just as most Muslims renounce Al-Qaeda terrorists.
Added on 15/05/2012
Juan Cole
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Anders Behring Breivik , Bahrain , Church of the Nativity , Congress , Daniel Pipes , Department of Defense , Egypt , G20 , Hiroshima , Indonesia , Islam , Jordan , Kuwait , Mecca , Michigan , Middle East , Morocco , Norfolk , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Pakistan , Pentagon , President , Renaissance Party , Robert Spencer , Spencer Ackerman , Tunisia , Turkey , United States , US military , Virginia , Washington , Washington DC
JUAN COLE: The Pentagon has launched an investigation into a class on Islam which characterises all Muslims as radical, violent extremists
Added on 02/05/2012
Juan Cole
Actor , Al Qaeda , Anders Breivik , Barack Obama , Bashar al-Assad , Ba’ath Party , Bin Laden , Damascus , Egypt , Gingrich , Governor , Guinea , Hamas , Hassan Nasrallah , Hizballah , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Israel , Jimmy Carter , Joe Biden , Lebanon , Lord’s Resistance Army , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Muslim Brotherhood , Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt , Muslim Brotherhood of Syria , Newt Gingrich , Osama Bin Laden , Palestinian Territories , President , Ron Paul , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Syrian Muslim Brotherhood , Tunisia , Turkey , United States , US Elections
JUAN COLE: Romney clearly doesn’t have the slightest idea what he is talking about, and seems intent on alienating 1.5 billion Muslims
Added on 28/04/2012
Common Ground News Service
Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi , Al Qaeda , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Congress , Democracy , President , Riyadh , Yemen
ABDUL WASA AL-SAQQAF, CGNEWS: There are two key priorities that need to be resolved – the role of the army and the constitution.
Added on 18/03/2012
Eman-Al-Nafjan
Al Qaeda , Assad , Egypt , Iraq , Libya , Middle East , pharaoh , Security Council , Social Media , Syria , Tunisia , United Nations , Yemen
EMAN AL-NAFJAN: Syria seems to have captured the attention of the region’s religious leaders but still the international community just talks
Added on 07/03/2012
James M. Dorsey
2010 World Cup , Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , amputations , Baghdad , Barak Obama , Congress , Cuba , Dennis Ross , Fifa World Cup , Florida , Football , Guantanamo Bay , guard , Hamas , Hassan Nasrallah , Herman Cain , Hizballah , House of Representatives , Iran , Iraq , Ismail Haniyeh , Kabul , Kabul's Ghazi stadium , McClatchy , Nelson Mandela , Northern Iraq , Osama Bin Laden , Pentagon , Politics , President , recruitment tool , Rugby , Saddam Hussein , Saudi Arabia , Soccer , Somalia , South Africa , Taliban , U.S. Congress , U.S. Navy , United States , United States Navy , US government , US military
JAMES M. DORSEY: The $744,000 pitch outside a $39 million penitentiary-style building is intended to reward the most cooperative of the 120,171 inmates.
Added on 01/03/2012
James M. Dorsey
Abdelaziz Bouteflika , Al Qaeda , Algeria , Algiers , East Africa , Egypt , Elections , Electricity , Football , Libya , Middle East , Mohamed , North Africa , oil and gas cities , President , Soccer , Social Media , spy chief , Syria , Tunisia , Yemen , Zine El Abedine Ben Ali
JAMES M. DORSEY: The ban on football matches taking place during election week deprives Algerians of a useful pressure valve
Added on 07/02/2012
James M. Dorsey
Afghanistan , Africa , Al Qaeda , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Arab League , Atlantic coast , Beijing , Benghazi , Central Asia , China , Damascus , Djibouti , East Africa , Egypt , Europe , International Criminal Court , Libya , Middle East , Muammar Qaddafi , North Africa , Pakistan , President , Russia , Security Council , Sinai desert , Social Media , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , the Hague , United Nations , United Nations Security Council , United States , Yemen
JAMES M. DORSEY: China’s veto of the U.N’s resolution condemning Syria is a watershed moment for its involvement in the Middle East.