South Africa at 20: Storms behind the rainbow

South Africa is facing growing socio-economic gaps, despite 20 years of democracy. The metal workers' union, NUMSA, recently broke rank...

Mr. President, Time To Act On Syria

Mr. President, Time To Act On Syria  2014/03/28 Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a senior fellow and professor at the Center for Global Affairs, New Yo...

A ‘Jewish state’: the unacceptable yet irreversible demand

A ‘Jewish state’: the unacceptable yet irreversible demand Friday, 28 March 2014 The U.S.-backed Palestinian-Israeli peace process is said t...

Opinion: Tehran and the temptation of a power grab in Lebanon

Until recently, the consensus among analysts of regional politics was that none of the powers involved in Lebanon’s tangled politics had an...

Paying lip service to Palestine

Daoud Kuttab One of the most telling signs that the Arab Spring has lost its reform steam appeared clearly in the latest meeting of Arab le...

Opinion: The Lebanese are Always the Last to Know

Although the constitutional countdown to Lebanon’s presidential elections is now under way and will continue until May 25, the Lebanese pe...

Russia’s Syria policy: on the wrong side of history

Bulent Aras Russian diplomacy on the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria represents a significant achievement. This development provid...

Egypt’s Sisi has won the race before it begins

Abdallah Schleifer One cannot say the brief announcement that former Egyptian Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made late last night came ...

The Fatah showdown: Mahmoud Abbas vs. Mohammad Dahlan

Ramzy Baroud When late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was confined by Israeli soldiers to his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramal...

Obama in Saudi Arabia: restoring the balance

 Joyce Karam Rarely has there been as much at stake as during the U.S. presidential trip to Saudi Arabia. But in the midst of regional tur...