The visits to Iran of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva for meetings with Iran's leaders on May 16, followed by the May 17 announcement that Iran is willing send its nuclear material to (...)
President Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize immediately triggered strong reactions worldwide, particularly highlighting the major challenges Obama faces in Muslim-majority states and communities, from the Mideast peace process, to the wars in (...)
WASHINGTON, DC/DOHA: On the morning of April 8, a US-flagged cargo ship - the Maersk Alabama - carrying US government food aid destined for Africa was hijacked by Somali pirates 300 miles off Somalia s coast. Eventually, the crew and the ship (...)
On the morning of April 8, 2009, a US-flagged cargo ship - the Maersk Alabama -carrying U.S. Government food aid destined for Africa was hijacked by Somali pirates 300 miles off its coast. Eventually, the crew and the ship escaped to safety, while (...)
After years of turmoil, and on the heels of the highly successful Lebanese National Dialogue held in Doha in mid-May, Lebanon s leaders swore in a new president under the banner of a broad-based coalition government. The government will include both (...)
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Three months ago, an American citizen was kidnapped in Northwest Pakistan. He was murdered. His body was just recently recovered by his bereaved family. I learned about the kidnapping shortly after it (...)
As a Middle East policy analyst who also has family ties to Lebanon, I visit quite often. I rolled out of bed one day and tried jogging along Beirut' s famed middle-class seaside walkway called the Corniche this past weekend, only to discover that (...)
An Arab-American and Jewish-American bigwig demonstrate how America can draft a new chapter for Israel and Palestine, writes Hady Amr*
Last month, United States Ambassador Ed Gabriel, and a former US secretary of defense William Cohen, co-led the (...)