Gulf News, UAE Nov 22 2009 Turkey in regional activism mode Since the Israeli war on Gaza, Ankara has become a frequent critic of Israeli policy, despite the strong alliance the two sides formed in the 1990s. Gulf News: Are we...
Egyptian president criticizes Israel's plan to 'populate Jerusalem with Jews' Ali Waked Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak harshly criticized Israel Saturday while speaking before the Egyptian parliament. President Mubarak said...
Dr. Mohamad Bazzi is an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). He is currently working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite community in Lebanon. He is a contributor...
Re: “Obama-Clinton Middle East strategy is a disaster” (Joel Brinkley column, 11-18). Successive American presidents since Jimmy Carter have had little success in bringing about peace in Palestine (i.e., Israel, the West Bank...
Tough Lessons For Obama On Mid-East Peace The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers how the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has taught US President Barack Obama hard and humiliating lessons. Nearly 500,000...
Washington - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror"....
GERTZ: Prospects of new war on rise as Hizbullah gains control in Lebanon WASHINGTON -- Iran's proxies, particularly Hizbullah, are preparing for an imminent war against Israel, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near...
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers how the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has taught US President Barack Obama hard and humiliating lessons. Failure to deliver On a hot day at Cairo University back...
Turkey’s performance in the last seven years of its foreign policy has been a success story. Not stopping at addressing problematic relations with its immediate neighbors, the country has transferred its vision of regional...
Perspective by Denis Bauchard The Middle East nowadays seems at the epicenter of most international crises, so the question is how should this chaos be dealt with? From 1980 to 2001, Europe played a leading role in the Middle...