August 23, 2012 1:09 am What Obama talks about when he talks about Islam Barack Obama's initial six months in the presidency were rich in symbolics. No one could have misunderstood his intention when he anointed Al-Arabiya, Dubai-based and Saudi-owned, to be the first of...... 34
August 6, 2012 12:00 am Syria’s merciless history If anything proves the absence of a civic religion of nationalism in the Arab world it is the bloody mayhem now coursing through the Maghreb and the Middle East,...... 4
May 6, 2012 5:07 am NATO is no peace panacea Last month, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, told a meeting of Arab ambassadors in Tokyo that NATO troops should be used to ensure Israel's security after it...... 1