KABOBleaks unveil Napkin Map

You've heard of the 'road map' for peace, now we bring to you the napkin map for.. (mopping up oil. olive.)

I watched the clip of a Jordanian teacher terrorizing a 1st-grade student in a public school. It was painful to see a young kid being humiliated, but it was more painful to see the reaction of a wide array of people to this youtube clip.

As the dust settles on this small child's largely publicized classroom trauma, we have more voices offering different points of view on culpability.

Aljazeera ban in Palestine

Al Jazeera will unleash in the next 4 days, the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Some illuminating nuggets of information on these controversial papers is detailed here, as we take a look at some of the most frequently asked questions answered.

But hark! Is it not all doom and gloom on the Palestine front?
Here emerges a lone voice of optimism in a sea of palpable Palestinian despondency

Is the Mosque forbidden territory for the non-Muslim?

From Bahrain and Qatar through Egypt and Lebanon the Corniche is a centre-piece of Arabian cities on a bay. Reflections on some of our favorite Corniches. We've missed out a few. Some of us have fond memories of Al-Khobar's Corniche...

And something to keep the heat but move away from the raging fires across the region