Is refraining from drinking and eating for several daylight hours so hard for people that it causes a total breakdown? The fourth pillar of Islam, it seems, is just that for many of us here in the
AMMAN, 27 October 2004 — I fail to think of a region in greater need of self-reflection and internal transformation than the Arab world. Yet it is as if the opposite is true. This is not another
When he appeared at a preliminary judicial hearing last July, to be advised of his legal rights, Saddam Hussein asked the presiding judge by what law he was being tried. When the judge, the double-chinned,
Pakistani President Musharraf’s new ideas on a peace settlement in Kashmir can hardly be said to amount to a concrete proposal. They are no more than a number of options. Nonetheless, these options
LONDON, 27 October 2004 — The redeployment of British forces in Iraq to support a US assault on Fallujah marks another stage in a creeping return to the colonial era, when popular revolts against occupation
