What is happening in Palestine today should be of great interest to any person who wishes to understand the Arab world and the workings of modern Arab...
The document issued by the Vatican on March 12 about the Catholic Church’s relations with the Jewish people and the Church’s actions during the Holocaust...
In a striking irony of life and history, the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is being re-enacted in some ways this year by some of the same people who fought on the...
In the Middle East and throughout the world, the 50-year jubilee of two historical events will be commemorated this year: the birth of the modern state of...
The Arab-Israeli conflict is passing through another of those moments defined by an odd combination of hope and despair: intense diplomatic...
The announcement by Jordan's social development minister this week that our poverty rate had increased to 26 percent will provide fresh fuel for those who see...
As Israel commemorates its 50th anniversary, the site of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin is emerging as a counter-symbol of Israel’s destructive impact...
The decisions by the governments of Palestine and Jordan last week to ban public marches or demonstrations against a possible Anglo-American military strike...
Why does the prospect of the use of Anglo-American military force against Iraq find so few supporters in the Middle East? Because the issue raises...
It is a shame that last week’s on-off-on-off visit by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,DC did not take place,...
The current stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian peace making breeds more mutual frustration and fear, and also heightens awareness of the core issue that must be...
The sudden increase in the slaughter of Algerian villagers over the past few weeks demands that we try to understand the causes of the madness taking place in...
Last month, when the Iranian national football team won a spot in this summer’s World Cup championships, Tehran and other cities exploded in spontaneous and...
This week will have seen all the people of the Middle East commemorating Christmas, Hannukah or the start of the holy month of Ramadan. This simultaneous...
The November parliamentary elections in Jordan provide a fascinating opportunity to analyse all that is noble and often wrong in the prevalent Arab...
What is the single most difficult and contentious issue in the way of a comprehensive and permanent Arab-Israeli peace agreement? Jerusalem? Settlements?...
In his personal plea to Israelis and Palestinians last Friday to negotiate intensively to move beyond the Oslo interim phase, president Bill Clinton listed...
The Chinese were right when, during the Gulf crisis of August 1990, they stated that the confrontation between Iraq and the US-led cash register coalition was...
The results of last week’s general elections for Jordan’s 13th parliament were not very surprising. Almost all results conformed to the pre-vote expectations:...
The parliamentary elections in Jordan today are neither the “democratic festival and wedding” that the government boasts about, nor the banana republic-style,...
What can we learn from the three years since October 1994, when the governments of Jordan and Israel signed their historic peace treaty? Conventional thinking...
The Jordanian government’s decision in the last week of September to suspend publication of about a dozen weekly newspapers only briefly re-ignited the...
The foiled Israeli assassination attempt in Amman on the life of Hamas political bureau director Khaled Meshaal earlier this month has generated much new...