The Middle East's New Geopolitical Map
23 Sep 2011: The Arab Spring is not the only revolution in town. The toppling of dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; the mounting death toll in Syria and Yemen, where the outcome is still undecided; the revival of long-suppressed Islamic movements demanding a shareSyria’s scuds, Israel’s security and one big smokescreen
07 Jun 2010: In the self-sensationalising world of modern media, some truths are better witnessed than told. Over the past fortnight, major media outlets have converged on Syria’s alleged delivery of scud missiles to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. ByNon-latin web addresses go live
06 May 2010: Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates areUS renews Syria threats over alleged Scuds to Hezbollah
22 Apr 2010: The United States has repeated its warning to Syria over an alleged transfer of ballistic missiles to Lebanon's Hezbollah, boasting all options are on the table. Speaking to a congressional committee on Wednesday, Assistant Secretary for Near EasternThe grand Zionist façade
02 Feb 2010: On 12 January, The New York Times carried an article by David Brooks on Jews and Israel. It so caught my eye that I decided to bring it to my class on the economic history of the Middle East. I sent my students the link to the article and asked them toGulf states launch joint military force for security
15 Dec 2009: Leaders of the six Gulf Arab states wrapped up their two-day summit where they agreed to create a joint force for quick intervention to address security threats, announced they were opposed to any military action by the West against neighboring Iran andHassan Nasrallah re-elected Hezbollah chief for 6th term
20 Nov 2009: Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah late on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the armed Shiite party announced. Nasrallah, 49, has been heading Hezbollah since 1992 whenIsraeli intercepts arms-laden ship
04 Nov 2009: A ship carrying hundreds of tons of weapons has been seized by Israeli commandos, government and military officials have said. Israeli military said on Wedenesday the arms were destined for the Lebanese armed political group Hezbollah. They also said anReport: EU and Mideast
14 Oct 2009: Today the Arab League and the European Union (EU) open a joint liaison office in Malta, that small but strategically important island at the center of the Mediterranean and which for centuries was on the front line between the Muslim and Christian worlds,El-Baradei Says Nuclear Israel Number One Threat to Mideast: Report
06 Oct 2009: Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday that "Israel is number one threat to Middle East" with its nuclear arms, the official IRNA news agency reported. At a joint press conference with Iran's AtomicIran, Palestine and Israel, What a contrast
02 Oct 2009: We live in a crazy world; war-mongering nations lecturing about peace, nations that have trampled on UN Charter by invading Iraq using fabricated evidences are swearing allegiance to the UN Charter, and the massacre of civilians in Gaza is now certifiedThe Consequences of the Palestinian-Israel Status Quo
26 Sep 2009: There seems to have been a mistake made when President Barack Obama named former Sen. George J. Mitchell his special representative concerned with settlement of the Palestinian-Israel impasse. The president and Mr. Mitchell seem to have believed that theUS embassy in Dubai - CIA recruiting outpost
24 Sep 2009: Thousands of Iranians use the city, which has strong trading ties with the Islamic Republic, to apply for visas every year since the United States has no formal representation in Tehran. But according to diplomats quoted in the book, Dubai: The Story ofArab countries win IAEA resolution on Israeli nukes
18 Sep 2009: An Arab resolution expressing concern about Israel’s nuclear weapons was narrowly passed at the IAEA Friday, in a vote exposing a rift between developing and industrialized countries. It was the first time that the International Atomic Energy AgencyDutch to sue Arab group for Holocaust sketch
03 Sep 2009: An Arab organization has decried the "double standards" of the Dutch public prosecutor's office for taking them to court over a Holocaust cartoon deemed offensive to Jews. "This cartoon is discriminatory," the prosecuting authority said of the sketch onslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
