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Michelle Obama picks loose clothing, no scarf in Arabia

Jan 28, 2015

First lady Michelle Obama seems to have pulled off the potentially touchy feat of dressing appropriately as a western woman(...)

Netanyahu’s contempt for President Obama

Jan 28, 2015

By Richard Cohen It would not surprise me if, at the next Republican National Convention, Benjamin Netanyahu took a seat in(...)

Jewish Voice for Peace on the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative

Jan 28, 2015

Jewish Voice for Peace echoes the concerns of our Muslim partners who reject the efforts of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative to(...)

Norman G. Finkelstein: Je Suis Charlie-Full-of-Sh*t

Jan 28, 2015

An Australian press organization has judged that a cartoon published in The Sydney Morning Herald violated press Standards of Practice(...)

Covert CIA Mission to Arm Syrian Rebels Goes Awry

Jan 28, 2015

HATAY, Turkey—It didn’t take long for rebel commanders in Syria who lined up to join a Central Intelligence Agency weapons(...)

A New Level of Refugee Suffering

Jan 28, 2015

KHANKE, Iraq — I HAVE visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like the suffering I’m(...)

A Conversation With Bashar al-Assad

Jan 28, 2015

The civil war in Syria will soon enter its fifth year, with no end in sight. On January 20, Foreign(...)

INTERVIEW: American Sharia comedy film set to tour UK

Jan 28, 2015

A new Muslim comedy film, American Sharia could not have been released at a better time. But it wasn’t planned(...)

Cardinal Vincent Nichols on Gaza, ISIS and Charlie Hebdo

Jan 28, 2015

"There are aspects to Israeli policy and behaviour that do immense damage in the eyes of the international community"One of(...)

Israel Stops Palestinian Minister from Leaving Gaza

Jan 28, 2015

Israeli authorities have prevented Palestinian Housing Minister Mufid al-Hasayneh from leaving the blockaded Gaza Strip for the occupied West Bank,(...)

Blind Palestinian girl sees hope in her future

Jan 28, 2015

Wardah Musa is a 23-year-old Palestinian girl from Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip faced all challenges after she(...)

Parents Object to Name for New School: Lebanon High

Jan 27, 2015

"The word 'Lebanon' still reminds me of all the sad and turmoil that goes on in the Middle East," a(...)