Opinion - Asharq Alawsat

Tried in an open court in which video footage of the crime was shown, an Egyptian police officer was convicted of sexually assaulting and torturing an Egyptian driver. [Imad Abdel Karim was detained [visit website]

There is no event that rivals the memory of the 1967 defeat in Arab contemporary history. Forty years later, the 1967 war still remains a bleeding wound in the Arab body, as the floods of articles that [visit website]

There is no questioning the fairness of the Palestinian issue: land is being occupied by force and a nation is displaced. However, only a few know about the inhumane aspects of the issue such as the [visit website]

With news and comment about the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War dominating the media scene these days little attention is paid to the increasing possibility of future wars in the Middle East which [visit website]

During a conference, I once suggested the following as a topic for discussion: How do you see the Arab region without the Arab-Israeli conflict in 2010, assuming that the issue has been solved pursuant [visit website]

In the Middle East, threads have become so entangled that it has become impossible to distinguish where things start or how they will end. The perpetually agitated region is undoubtedly pregnant, but [visit website]

Forty years ago on June 6th, Israel launched a surprise attack and defeated both Egypt and Syria in what came to be known as "the Setback". Since then, the term has come to denote a setback-oriented Arab awareness that excels ... [visit website]

Although Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has said -- and Deputy Saad al-Hariri has reiterated -- that the objective of UN Security Council Resolution 1757, which endorsed the formation of the [visit website]

Many rational individuals and sincere observers of the Lebanese arena with its various orientations strive to come up with a just solution to the murder of former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri [visit website]

In the 1990s, both Iraq and Algeria were viewed as the two Arab countries that were most likely to emerge from the dilemma of underdevelopment and join the industrialized nations. They were also relied [visit website]

I was taken aback when I saw the picture. On the front page of the newspaper was a picture of an American soldier standing at the corner of a house in Baghdad while it was raided. A heavily pregnant [visit website]

"Your daughter has cancer." There are no harsher words than the above. This is exactly what I realized as I listened to the doctor explaining the condition of my two-year-old daughter, Mariam. They [visit website]

With Congressional maneuverings over the funding of US troops in Iraq now over, at least temporarily, it is, perhaps, time to discuss ways in which the American military presence might end. If one [visit website]

The biggest show presently being witnessed by people in the region is the siege of Nahr al Bared camp, with the [Lebanese] army on the outside and the terrorist group Fatah al Islam on the inside. But [visit website]

As evident to all those who are concerned about what is happening in northern Lebanon today, the approach of tackling this issue should diffe¬r to the stereotypical equation that is subject to the balances [visit website]

 The goal behind most of the confrontations, bombings, assassinations, and the 250,000 fatalities that took place in the years following the invasion of Iraq was to sit at the table of concessions [visit website]

Back in 1969 when I was 17, I was fascinated by all things nationalistic and leftist. I would hang around bookshops and street book vendors to pick up everything that had to do with Marxism and existentialism [visit website]

Controversy escalated in Egypt's religious circles over the fatwa [religious ruling] issued by one of the al Azhar scholars that stated upon women breastfeeding their adult male colleagues so as to [visit website]

Everyone knows that bolstering and raising fundamentalist movements in our region, whether Sunni or Shiite, will result in destructive chaos and inevitable conflict by its very nature. From Morocco [visit website]

In his most recent speech commenting on the events taking place in the Nahr al Bared refugee camp, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah asked the questions, "Is it necessary to turn Lebanon into a battlefield." [visit website]