[caption id="attachment_55230374" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The Ancient City of Qom in Iran, the largest centre for Shi'a scholarship"][/caption] The current form of religious…

[caption id="attachment_55230345" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption=" Ali Abdullah Saleh"][/caption]President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to relinquish his office in November 2011. He formally…

[caption id="attachment_55230314" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Cairo War Memorial Cemetery "][/caption] Deep in the heart of Cairo's Heliopolis, an old colonial suburb of sugar loaf…

[caption id="attachment_55230203" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Yasser Arafat poses on the streets of Beirut (circa 1980)"][/caption] When Yasser Arafat assumed leadership of the…

[caption id="attachment_55230114" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani meets with Ayatollah Ali Khamanei in 2009 (© The Center for Preserving and Publishing the…

[caption id="attachment_55230048" align="aligncenter" width="589" caption="Mohammed Riad Al-Shaqfa"][/caption] The Majalla has met with the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Mohammed Riad…

[caption id="attachment_55229971" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="President of the SNC Borhan Ghalyoon at the press conference in Tunisia of Friends of Syria"][/caption] Sheikh Nawaf Bashir…

[caption id="attachment_55229965" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A demonstration in Tahrir Square against the expansion of Egypt's Emergency Law."][/caption] A world-famous novelist…

  The Arab World has experienced a number of shifts and shocks since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Great War. It has never been immune to moments of change, but such moments while…

[caption id="attachment_55229792" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes Western influence on Iran, during a speech on 22 February (© the center for preserving and…