A bid for U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Mideast peace efforts, a Palestinian spokeswoman said Wednesday, rejecting Israel's charge that it is an attempt to bypass negotiations.
Hanan Ashrawi, a (...)
Palestinian leaders decided on Saturday to seek sessions of the UN Security Council and the Arab League, hoping for action to halt Israeli settlement.A statement by the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation said continued (...)
The killing of an Egyptian at the hands of Latin American extremists opened the file of attacks on Arab immigrants in Europe. The editorial of the London-based independent political daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi said attacks on and killing of Arab and (...)
Writers found Palestinian agreement to the decision by the UN Human Rights Council to defer a report denouncing Israeli practices against Gaza perplexing and unacceptable
Mohamed Saleh Al-Mesfer wrote that the Palestinian Authority has been taking (...)
The outrageous Israeli violation of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
A group of Jewish hardliners entered Al-Aqsa Mosque, sparking Palestinian protests later quelled by Israeli police. Writers looked at the significance of the incident and its impact on (...)
The recent Syrian-Iraqi détente that surprised many political observers did not last long. It ended following the Iraqi accusation that Damascus was harbouring terrorists involved in the recent bloody Baghdad explosions.
The editorial of the (...)
The release of the alleged Lockerbie bomber Abdel-Baset Al-Megrahi was probably the only positive thing to come out of a region suffering from Palestinian division, the failure to form a Lebanese government and huge explosions in the Iraqi capital (...)
Shems Friedlander, secret poet, playwright but no-longer secretive painter, is AUC's Renaissance Man.
That is not an allusion to a period of painting which I would argue has barely touched or influenced his work, but rather to his technical and (...)
It has been two weeks since the Abu Ghraib scandal hit the TV screens and news stands. Images of atrocious forms of abuse committed against Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers have since been making news day in day out. They also prompted a torrent of (...)