CAIRO: As bitter clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square continue into their fourth day, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today reported that members of the media, too, are enduring the wrath of the security crackdown in the epicenter of the (...)
Egyptian newspaper headlines today were splashed with statements from Iranian President Ahmadinejad, saying that the Zionist entity will soon disappear and that America and Israel are trying to rally the world around a military operation against (...)
ZAHLE, Lebanon: It's difficult to find yourself bored in Lebanon. You can play on its beaches, explore its history at Baalbek, cruise the castle wall in Byblos and, of course, get loose in Beirut.
But nestled comfortably in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley (...)
JDEITA, Lebanon: Cut into the gentle slope climbing up away from the chaos of a crowded Jdeita motorway is a quiet, gentle Bronze-age homestead where a livelihood and a way of living remain in homeostasis.
It hasn't always been that way for Salim (...)
CAIRO: The U.S. daily Washington Post today published an editorial lambasting the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Egyptian military for its brutal crackdown on Coptic protestors at the Radio and Television Headquarters (...)
BEIRUT, Lebanon – A mere one and a half hours by plane from Cairo lies Beirut, the so-called Paris of the Middle East: a city vibrant in ethnicity and culture, rich in European wealth and gastronomy and awash with a boundless commitment to the (...)