Opinion

On the surface, the status quo of recent months in Syria continues; each Friday tens of thousands of protesters throughout the country face live ammunition from security forces, widespread detention …

The staff at the Israeli embassy in Cairo must be feeling a little uncomfortable these days. In the heated atmosphere of post-revolutionary Egypt, few people in the city are willing …

On May 2nd, television cameras broadcast around the worldimages of jubilant crowds at ‘Ground Zero’ in New York, in front of the WhiteHouse and across the United States celebrating the …

Eight years after the American-led invasion of Iraq, the country’s business climate seems to finally be showing some substantive improvements. Granted, the essential quality for the country to re-emerge as …

Jordan is often said to be divided, both demographically and politically, between so-called “real” Jordanians and those of Palestinian descent. Yet that is hardly the only fault line lurking below …

After a week filled with promises — about lifting the hatedstate of emergency, granting the right for peaceful protests, abolishing kangaroo state security courts — the Syrian regime brutally shot …

Hezbollah’s silence on the unprecedented developments in neighboring Syria betrays a growing unease over the outcome of the uprising and the strategic ramifications of a collapse of the Assad regime. …

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quicker towel come the ‘Arab Spring’ than United States President Barack Obama. While publicly comparing the unrest to its own “Islamic Revolution,” Tehran …

Tens of thousands of protestors throughout Yemen continued to demand the fall of President Ali Abdullah Saleh last month. This is a testament to the fact that the president and …

The shotgun marriage between the Egyptian people and the ruling military council has not been an easy ride. After many decades on the sidelines of traditional politics, the army has …