THE welcoming by the Quartet of Middle Eastern peacemakers, Europe, Russia, the UN and the United States, of the efforts by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to create a national unity
Since last month Muslim women across the Islamic world have been boiling over a proposal to disallow women praying within the circumambulation area of the Grande Mosque in Makkah. The Presidency
JEDDAH, 22 September 2006 — THE ONGOING showdown between the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) and the Senate, which is investigating the dissipation of assets owned by the government-sequestered
As one more anniversary of the 9/11 passed, one wonders if the world has succeeded in wiping out the terror menace. There are two diametrically opposite views on the matter. While some people
The nonaligned summit in Cuba can claim one unintended benefit. Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh used the summit meeting with President Musharraf in Havana to retrace his steps. He used the meeting
The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine illustrates how the US news media is gearing up for a military attack on Iran. The headline over the cover-story interview with Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Thirty-two words. That’s all it took to devastate the already heightened sensibilities of over a billion people last week. It was justified as being an innocent slip of the tongue. The casual mention
