Humanitarian crises caught on camera
Sudanese refugees fleeing to Chad, in the middle of a sandstorm; a twice-displaced Iranian Kurdish girl hiding her face in her hands and crying as she recounts the kidnapping of…
Special Forces to the rescue?
Londoners don't seem that interested in the war anymore. Hundreds of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched past Big Ben in February 2003, but now when I mention Iraq to my…
Muslim Literary Voices Call for Redemption
Several Islamic blogs have recently started a discussion over means to combat the "pornographic imagination in Arab literary works through the spread of what has been labeled the Islamic novel.This…
India in Africa
China's increasing influence in Africa has attracted great attention in recent years. But Asia's other rising power, India, is also becoming more active on this front, as its economic links…
Iraq: The way out
As Congress debates when and how to withdraw American troops from Iraq, the most critical question for every single member to answer is: What sort of Iraq will the United…
The PLO: A Jordanian perspective
In 1974, the late King Hussein s pleas to Arab leaders to preserve the unity of the two banks of the Jordan and to give Jordanian diplomacy a chance to…
America's Day of Reckoning
The pessimists who have long forecasted that America's economy was in for trouble finally seem to be coming into their own. Of course, there is no glee in seeing stock…
Bush's flawed Middle East peace plan
That a summit in Damascus of the Middle East's "axis of evil - Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, and Hamas - was convened immediately following President George W. Bush's call for a…
Mahala Textiles return disputed mummies
CAIRO: The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has received eight bird mummies, previously at display at the corporate office Al-Mahala Textile factory.In a press release sent to Daily News Egypt,…
Al-Qaeda's blond fighters: the unusual suspects?
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda is recruiting more fighters of European and American origin into their ranks, some of whom are blue-eyed blonds that don't fit the group's typical racial profile, reports indicate.The…