THE REEL ESTATE: The unsent letters of Iwo Jima
The trajectory of legendary American actor/director Clint Eastwood s career has puzzled film historians and fans alike. The way in which his career began and developed hardly resembles any other…
Inside The Middle East Diary
Beirut has been my home for ten breathtaking if at times terrifying years. Lebanon has been my story for even longer than that - twenty five years in all. It…
Dealing with unwinnable wars after victory has been declared
In recent weeks, Italy's government fell after losing a parliamentary vote on the country's troop deployment in Afghanistan, while the United Kingdom and Denmark announced that they were to begin…
Give Israelis peace, but take from them
Traveling from Beirut to Cairo on Monday, I read Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's statement that it was impossible for Israel to accept the 2002 Arab Summit peace initiative in…
Hosni Mubarak's regime won't delete Egypt's bloggers
Abdul Karim Nabil, the 22-year-old Egyptian blogger sentenced to three years in jail for insulting Islam, and an additional year for "insulting President Hosni Mubarak, was not born when Mubarak…
Egyptian bloggers testing state media control
ReutersCAIRO: Egyptian bloggers have come into the spotlight, on the one hand as an important forum for political debate, on the other as the target of government attempts to limit…
Lebanese citizens have difficulty pushing for the peace they want
BEIRUT: A pro-peace rally organized by 12 Lebanese NGOs in central Beirut on Saturday kicked off the Oua'a campaign, which aims to push politicians to resolve their disputes peacefully. The…
Arabs trying to protect Islam's third holiest site in Jerusalem
Archaeologists hold an emergency conference urging suspension of operations near Al-Aqsa MosqueCAIRO: A meeting that brought together leading Arab archaeologists in Cairo ended on Monday, urging Israel to inform Unesco's…
Topless wife photo ends German man's pole protest
BERLIN: A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 22-meter high pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his…
