“Brother, brother,” a young man called me as I hurriedly left a lecture hall in some community centre in Durban, South Africa. That happened at the height of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, when all efforts at stopping the ferocious US-Western military drive against t

“Labeiki ya Zaynab,” chanted Iraqi Shiite fighters as they swayed, dancing with their rifles before TV news cameras in Baghdad on June 13.

Palestinians are yet to achieve national unity despite the elation over the national unity government now in operation in Ramallah. There is a clear in the distinction between a Hamas-Fateh political arrangement necessitated by regional and international circumstances, and Pales

Irrespective of how one feels about the direction taken by various Arab revolutions in the last three years, a few facts remain incontestable: Arab revolts began in the streets of poor, despairing Arab cities, and Arabs had every right to rebel, considering the dismal state of af

“Opportunistic” is a fitting description for Libya’s rogue General Khalifa Haftar who, for the second time in less than four months, mounted a coup against Tripoli. Haftar’s opportunism has accompanied the man for the last 45 years; at 71, he is now deter

In “Jaffa: land of oranges”, Ghassan Kanafani described his exile from the Palestinian coastal city of Jaffa. As a 12-year-old boy, he struggled to understand, but “on that night, though, certain threads of that story became clearer...

“In Yemen today, the US embassy is closed to the public. Officials are telling CNN that there is credible information of a threat against Western interests there,” a CNN news anchor read the news bulletin on May 8. This is CNN’s Yemen.

I unfriended another Facebook friend this week. It may seem a trivial matter, but for me, it is not. The reason for my action was Syria.

For years, Palestinian factions have strived for unity, and for years unity has evaded them. But is it possible that following several failed attempts, Fateh and Hamas have finally found that elusive middle ground?