Editor's Choice

January 4, 2011

Perceptions of the Middle East: should regional media be playing a more strategic role?
Is Arab world a 'victim' of western 'information technology'?
08:23 GMT
Western broadcast and print journalism has been subverted by right-wing extremists interested in manufacturing a good image for Israel while demonising the Palestinian people

January 3, 2011

Lebanon - beset from without and within?
Lebanon & the abyss
13:55 GMT
Once again, Lebanon is on the brink of major social and political upheaval. Rumours of an impending armed clash between the Hezbollah and the pro-western governing coalition have spread like wildfire
Amman - full of hope or pessimism?
Jordanians have high hopes, low expectations for 2011
11:06 GMT
With the turn of the calendar year, hope is in the air in Jordan, with people holding out for better fortunes personally, regionally and across the world
Egyptian Christians hold a blood-stained portrait of Jesus Christ during a protest late on January 2, 2011 outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church in Alexandria, following a New Year's Eve car bomb attack on the Coptic church in the northern Egyptian city in which 21 people were killed.
"Egypt in danger"
08:02 GMT
Representatives from Egypt's entire political spectrum, governments across the world and international organizations condemned the attack on an Alexandria church that left 21 dead and 97 injured.

January 2, 2011

Blood-stains cover the door of the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church following an overnight car bomb attack that targeted the church in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on January 1, 2011 and killed at least 21, hitting Egypt's Christian community, the biggest in the Middle East.
Blood in Egypt
09:36 GMT
A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least 21 people, officials said.

January 1, 2011

It's 2011, but the violin still plays in Palestine.
Ten things we hope for in the New Year
09:32 GMT
Nationhood for Palestine, and other wishes.

December 30, 2010

Wikileaks - a writer asks what 2011 might hold.
Wikileaks leak of December 2011
10:42 GMT
Secret cable from DCM, US Embassy Tel Aviv, to deputy under secretary of state for Middle East affairs, State Department, Washington. Dec. 28, 2010
LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 04: Protesters campaigning for the indictment of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir demonstrate outside the Sudanese embassy on March 4, 2009 in London
Sudan at the crossroads
08:18 GMT
Civil war and other conflicts are a result of the failure to manage the diversity that characterises post-colonial Africa

December 29, 2010

Dubai officials didn't discuss Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's death publicly until Jan. 29 — nine days after his body was discovered
WikiLeaks: UAE considered keeping Hamas hit quiet
14:20 GMT
Diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks indicate authorities in the United Arab Emirates debated whether to keep quiet about the high-profile killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January.
Palestinian workers, close to the Israeli border.
What does 'resistance' mean in Palestine?
10:49 GMT
Several months ago, I took part in a symposium organized by the Palestinian Academic Society for International Affairs, entitled "Hamas' Political Agenda 2010"
Wikileaks: silent on Israel?
WikiLeaks: not 'shielding' Israel?
08:45 GMT
Some have even gone as far to suggest WikiLeaks is a Zionist-backed organisation that acted selectively when issuing its revelations...

December 28, 2010

A cross is held by a supporter of Egypt's Coptic Christian community during a protest near the United Nations against the Egyptian government's treatment of its Christian minority December 14, 2010 in New York City
Egypt: the religion "time-bomb"
13:39 GMT
As she nurses a badly wounded relative, a simple but very angry young woman says, “Where is America? Why aren’t the Americans here to protect us if our own government has failed to protect us?”
People wave Palestinian and Turkish flags as they welcome the Mavi Marmara ship at Istanbul's Sarayburnu port on December 26, 2010. The Turkish ferry which was the target of a deadly raid by Israeli commandos when it tried to deliver aid to Gaza received a rapturous welcome from thousands on Sunday as it arrived back in Istanbul.
Turkey: The new indispensable nation
10:29 GMT
It is no longer possible to sustain the current world order based as it is on a skewed notion of centre-periphery relations.
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 22: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) signs legislation repealing military policy law during a ceremony December 22, 2010 in Washington, DC. President Obama signed into law a bill repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" law against gays serving openly in the military
Obama: down but far from out.
08:05 GMT
For a world that feared (and in some cases, cheered) the prospect of American decline, this holiday season has been bracing

December 27, 2010

Protesters from various democracy organisations march to the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on December 25, 2010 to call for the relesae of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (portrait). Liu, a writer who has advocated political reform in China for more than two decades, was jailed in December 2009 for 11 years on subversion charges after co-authoring Charter 08, a bold petition calling for change.
Practice What You Preach: Wikileaks and the Nobel Peace Prize
14:29 GMT
Recently two notable events flared up the pulse of media. They amplified the thrill of excitement and escalated intense unreasonable debate. The public opinion was largely skeptical.