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Arab Leadership: Big Mistakes between Theory and Practice
Feb. 8 | By: Dr. Rami H. Aljbour, Ph.D. of Global Leadership Assistant Professor Most Arab leaders do believe and are convinced that they really are true leaders. The attitude of Gaddafi is may be the same hidden attitude of many other Arab leaders but Gaddafi’s...
In Lebanon, a refuge for Syria’s wounded
Feb. 4 | Abu Hamza was in a crowd of thousands in the Syrian border town of Qusair, shouting for President Bashar Assad to leave power, when a sniper’s bullet tore through his leg and shattered the bone into 18 pieces. Another bullet pierced his back as he...
Middle East Christians Keep Wary Eye On Arab Spring
Feb. 2 | By Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch USA Today CAIRO (RNS) From her home, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as visitors outside come to look upon the spot where Egypt’s Coptic Christians believe Mary, Joseph and the infant...
Amin Maalouf’s Disordered World Is Swansong of Old Middle East
Dec. 29 | You wouldn’t know it to hold Disordered World in your hands, but it’s a big book. Subtitled “Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century,” this nonfiction offering by Amin Maalouf (famed Lebanese-French author of novels such as Leo Africanus,...
The Free Syrian Army in Lebanon
Dec. 28 | An old religious school stands on a hill in the Lebanese village of Wadi Khaled. Below, red-colored earth marks a smuggling road into Syria, which is now sprinkled with landmines. Inside the school are blackboards scrawled with slogans denouncing Syrian...
Syrian protesters set up celebrity list of shame
Dec. 24 | By Tom Little BBC Monitoring The uprising in Syria has divided the county’s thriving artistic community, with a handful of musicians, actors and directors coming out in support of protesters calling for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. For...
Arab Spring brings persecution to Christians
Dec. 23 | Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow One year after the start of “Arab Spring,” Christians in those countries find themselves in a difficult position as they face intolerance and persecution. Arab Spring began in North Africa and the Middle...
Syria … Come see for yourself
Dec. 12 | This press release gives you a resume of the current situation of tourism industry in Syria, highlighting the short and mid- term plans taken by the Ministry of Tourism to manage the current crisis in Syria aiming to reduce its negative effects on the...
Could ‘Arab Spring’ turn into ‘Christian Winter’?
Dec. 9 | Churches in Egypt are praying and helping migrants, who flee home due to political turmoil, violence and uncertain future. There is a great need to develop stable democratic societies if the ‘Arab spring’ is to bear fruits. Or else it might...
Arab Spring does not mean democracy – diplomat
Dec. 7 | The Arab Spring will not bring democracy, former Deputy Secretary General of the Arab League Adnan Omran warns. He says slogans brandished before elections are no guarantee that the winner is actually going to practice democracy. The Syrian diplomat...
Revisiting a Massacre in Lebanon’s Civil War—Were Lebanese Christians Responsible?
Dec. 6 | This past September marked the twenty-ninth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanon’s president-elect Bashir Gemayel. Like its most recent clone, the 2005 murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, memories of the 1982 crime continue to haunt...
Worrying developments in the Middle East
Dec. 5 | It’s been an eventful , if worrying afternoon in the Middle East. First, the initial Egyptian election results confirm the expectation that Islamist parties would dominate the first round of elections: they’ve taken more than 50 per cent of the...
PM’s office pays Lebanon’s STL dues
Nov. 30 | BEIRUT Lebanon paid its $36 million share of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s annual budget Wednesday, Prime Minister Najib Mikati said, with the money coming from the budget of the prime minister’s office and paid through the Higher Relief...
The irresistible rise of the Muslim Brothers
Nov. 29 | Fawas Gerges For years, the west has feared the Muslim Brotherhood succeeding to the highest levels of Egyptian political power. With Islamists poised to win the lion’s share of seats in Egypt’s election, is the nightmare about to become reality? Since...
The end of Arab Christianity
Nov. 21 | Anthony Shadid has a poignant piece up, … But There’s a Slim Hope in History, on the specter of extinction facing Arab Christianity in the wake of the Arab Spring. This is an issue which I think most of my Left-liberal friends simply seem unable...
Syria facing worldwide isolation
Nov. 17 | The Arab League has confirmed the suspension of Syria from the organization and given its government three days to halt the violence and accept an observer mission or face economic sanctions. The suspension — first announced by the Arab League on Saturday...
Syrians protest Arab vote; embassies attacked
Nov. 14 | to discuss the country’s spiraling political unrest and invited Arab League officials to visit before its membership suspension was to take effect on Wednesday. In a significant concession, the government said the Arab officials could bring any...
Arab Christians Reshaping U.S. Enclaves
Nov. 10 | (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — Jordanian immigrants take Communion at an Arabic-language Mass in Albuquerque. Lebanese-Americans help raise nearly $2 million for major improvements to a West Virginia church. Iraqi refugees who practice an ancient religion that...
Diaspora in USA writes an open letter to Hillary Clinton
Nov. 10 | Jersey City, NJ Mr. Monir A. Dawoud, President of the International Christian Union, President of the American Coptic association, President of LEVANT (Previously, the Arab American Physician Foundation), and Board of Trustees Member, of the Egyptian...
Man charged with NY theft from Emirates princess
Nov. 9 | Authorities say a serial thief has taken about $250,000 worth of jewelry, electronics and other valuables from a United Arab Emirates princess’ luxury New York hotel room. Suspect James Bennett is due back in court Nov. 21 after a procedural appearance...
Syria releases 553 prisoners ahead of Muslim Eid al-Adha
Nov. 5 | DAMASCUS, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — The Syrian government released Saturday a total of 553 prisoners arrested during the seven-month- long unrest on the occasion of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the state-run TV reported. The released prisoners...
US warns Lebanon over Hariri court funding
Nov. 5 | Hariri (AFP) — A top US official on Saturday warned that ties with Lebanon would suffer if Beirut fails to pay its share of funding to a UN-backed court probing ex-premier Rafiq Hariri’s murder. “If Lebanon is unable to produce...
West two-faced over rights violations in Syria – country’s FM
Oct. 25 | The economic sanctions which are having a harsh impact on the Syrian population highlight a clear contradiction in the West’s approach to Syria, insists Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem. The Minister gave an exclusive interview to RT...
Local Egyptians react to violence against Coptic Christians
Oct. 24 | The Arab Spring revolution in Egypt has only led to more violence and attacks against Coptic Christians in 2011, say local Egyptians, some of whom are calling upon U.S. government officials for help. Earlier this month, Christians marched in Cairo to...
Post-revolt Tunisia wrestles with resurgent Islam
Oct. 24 | (Reuters) “We paid a heavy price for the revolution so we are not ready to let secularists and supporters of the Zionists control our destiny,” said the young man, with a beard and a long white robe, after prayers in the Omrane district of...
Saudi crown prince Sultan dies after illness
Oct. 22 | The heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud, died abroad Saturday after an illness, state TV said. The death of the 85-year-old prince opens questions about the succession in the critical, oil-rich U.S. ally Sultan was the...
Editorial: Gadhafi’s death just the beginning
Oct. 22 | It’s hard to recall a time when so many tyrants and terrorists met such fitting ends. Osama bin Laden shot by Navy SEALs. American terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki blown up by a Predator missile. Saddam Hussein ignominiously dug out of a hole in the ground...
Coptic Church Condemns Attack, Muslims Pelt Funeral Procession With Bricks
Oct. 12 | AINA The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt issued a statement on October 10, expressing horror at the events of yesterday in Maspero, where 24 Copts were killed and over 200 and wounded. The church stressed that the Christian faith rejects violence. The...
Muslim Mob Torches Coptic Church in Egypt – Video Inside
Oct. 1 | AINA) — After Friday prayers today, a mob of several thousand Muslims from the village of Elmarinab in Edfu, Aswan province, demolished and torched St. George’s church, which was being renovated. The mob demolished the dome, walls and columns,...
