Qaeda to produce film on Awlaqi’s life with message to US
A radical group in Yemen announced on Wednesday that a film will be produced documenting the life of slain US-born cleric Anwar Al-Awlaqi and which will include a previously unknown…
Pilgrims perform final hajj rituals
MINA: Nearly three million Muslim pilgrims were performing the final rituals of the hajj on Tuesday as the world's largest annual gathering neared its close without major incident. The most…
Elections media guidelines need clarification, say experts
CAIRO: Media guidelines provided by the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) include vague points and lack a strategy for implementation, media experts argued. The guidelines, issued by SEC last week, stipulate…
Electionnaire: Egyptians find their political match
CAIRO: With the first post-uprising parliamentary elections just around the corner, Egyptians are scrambling for a crash course in politics, mostly to overcome their general confusion. To this end, two…
Iran says UN nuclear chief is American pawn
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday criticized the head of the UN's nuclear agency as an American pawn, in the run-up to its expected release of evidence which purports…
UN says 3,500 dead so far in Syria uprising
BEIRUT: The UN human rights office on Tuesday raised the death toll from the eight-month Syrian uprising to 3,500, as activists on the ground reported that fresh attacks by Syrian…
March to support detained activist; mother on hunger strike
CAIRO: Hundreds marched Monday from downtown Cairo to support activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, detained for 15 days pending investigation by the military prosecution. His supporters plan another solidarity March Wednesday…
Iran, the Arab intifada and the end of the ‘Middle East’
By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Once upon a time there was a United States naval officer who invented a region he called the "Middle East". His name was Alfred Thayer Mayhan (1840-1914) and…
The lynching of Libya
By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: Many would say that Col. Muammar El-Qaddafi got what he deserved. Live by the sword, die by the sword. The Libyan tyrant happily allowed his opponents,…
The globalization of protest
By Joseph Stiglitz NEW YORK: The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall…