The Washington Post’s editors never tire of basking in the faded glory of Watergate, a scandal that occurred nearly four decades ago. Some outsiders also still call the Post “liberal.”...
Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shiites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play...
On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake...
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mossad chief Meir Dagan If you were a gambling man down to your last million dollars, you could safely bet the lot on the fact that...
Major US news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, are engaged in a replay of the kind of slanted coverage that paved the way to war...
The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as...
Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do.
HOLLYWOOD — The low-grossing Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker" has swept the prestigious Academy Awards, scooping six Oscar prizes and defeating the highest-grossing movie in modern history "Avatar".
CAIRO - A waxed rag in hand, Inas Hamam gives her car a good buff as she awaits her first clients of the day -- Egyptian women, tired of sexual harassment, who prefer a female taxi driver.
BAGHDAD - Business has never been so good for Iraq's printers in the runup to the March 7 election, but the boom has its own headaches in a country short on printing presses.
DEIR EZ ZOUR - Drought in eastern and northeastern Syria has driven some 300,000 families to urban settlements such as Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez Zour in search of work in one of the largest internal displacements in the Middle East in recent years.
SANAA (IRIN) - It was every little girl's dream; she was to get a new dress, jewellery, sweets and a party for all her friends.
What 10-year-old Aisha did not know was that after the wedding party she would have to leave school, move to a village far from her parents' home, cook and clean all day, and have sex with her older husband.
Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1 February, many attending in a shift system, with missing textbooks, stationery or uniforms.
One year on since Israel's criminally-insane war on Gaza, many are still unaware of the roots of the 'conflict' and the plight of the Palestinian people. Israel would like to have us believe that its latest onslaught was a direct response to resistance rockets or even Hamas's democratic accession to power, forgetting that both of which came into existence as a response to Israeli policies.
GAZA CITY - This year Santa had to ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl through a smuggling tunnel to bring a little Christmas joy to the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.
Egypt's deputy parliament speaker said women needed a law to protect them from sexual harassment which had reached "savage" levels in the country, Al-Destour newspaper reported on Tuesday.
HOLLYWOOD — The low-grossing Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker" has swept the prestigious Academy Awards, scooping six Oscar prizes and defeating the highest-grossing movie in modern history "Avatar". 
CAIRO - A waxed rag in hand, Inas Hamam gives her car a good buff as she awaits her first clients of the day -- Egyptian women, tired of sexual harassment, who prefer a female taxi driver.
BAGHDAD - Business has never been so good for Iraq's printers in the runup to the March 7 election, but the boom has its own headaches in a country short on printing presses.
DEIR EZ ZOUR - Drought in eastern and northeastern Syria has driven some 300,000 families to urban settlements such as Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez Zour in search of work in one of the largest internal displacements in the Middle East in recent years.
SANAA (IRIN) - It was every little girl's dream; she was to get a new dress, jewellery, sweets and a party for all her friends. 
Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1 February, many attending in a shift system, with missing textbooks, stationery or uniforms.
One year on since Israel's criminally-insane war on Gaza, many are still unaware of the roots of the 'conflict' and the plight of the Palestinian people. Israel would like to have us believe that its latest onslaught was a direct response to resistance rockets or even Hamas's democratic accession to power, forgetting that both of which came into existence as a response to Israeli policies.
GAZA CITY - This year Santa had to ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl through a smuggling tunnel to bring a little Christmas joy to the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.
Egypt's deputy parliament speaker said women needed a law to protect them from sexual harassment which had reached "savage" levels in the country, Al-Destour newspaper reported on Tuesday.