Basma Abdel Aziz was walking in downtown Cairo one morning when she saw a long line of people standing in front of a closed government building. Returning hours later, Ms. Abdel Aziz, a psychiatrist who counsels torture victims, passed the same people still waiting listlessly […]
3030A hawkish Lebanese Sunni politician has won local elections in the second largest city of Tripoli in a result that marks a blow to long-established Sunni leaders and risks reviving tensions among rival sectarian groups there. The municipal elections underway nationwide for a month have […]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has begun the construction of a gigantic embassy in Israël, probably the most important in Tel-Aviv. Officially, the two states do not maintain diplomatic relations because of the expulsion by Israël of the majority of its Palestinian population in 1948 […]
Saudi Arabia has frustrated American policy makers for years. Ostensibly a critical ally, sheltered from its enemies by American arms and aid, the kingdom has spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form of Sunni Islam that inspired the 9/11 hijackers and that now inflames […]
Lebanon suffered, and what is still, from a long-life crisis even more than a quarter of a century. Causes are the imbalance in the application of the Charter, the Constitution and the national accord document, exceeding the Taif Agreement, which led to a significant imbalance […]
More than 148 people were killed Monday in bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, the deadliest attacks yet in the regime’s coastal heartland. Seven near-simultaneous explosions targeted bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in the seaside cities of Jableh and […]
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Sunday evening that the candidate fielded by the FPM, Amal Abou Zeid, had won the parliamentary by-election that was held in the southern city of Jezzine to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Change and […]
For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.” Psalms 78:37 Former Miss USA pageant winner Rima Fakih, who became the first Muslim and Arab-American to win the title in 2010, has reportedly converted to Christianity. According to the Middle […]
One hundred years ago on Monday, Britain and France signed a secret agreement carving out “spheres of influence” that ultimately created the modern Middle East. Yet no one was celebrating the anniversary as Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterparts from Europe, the Arab […]
French ambassador to Lebanon Emmanuel Bonne denied reports on Tuesday that an upcoming conference in France centers on Lebanon’s presidential vacuum. Speaking to LBCI, Bonne said that a misunderstanding had occurred over what the conference will highlight, clarifying that it was not over Lebanon’s current […]
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