[escenic_image id="55122464"]Few diplomatic moves carry so much significance as the appointment by Kuwait and Iraq of their new ambassadors to Baghdad and Kuwait City, respectively. With relations…

[escenic_image id="55113191"] The Afghan Ministry of Mines recently announced the discovery of an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of Afghanistan. This announcement…

[escenic_image id="55113174"]After the failed Detroit bomb plot last Christmas, Yemen is no longer headline news in Western capitals, but the poorest Arab country is still boiling with social and…

[escenic_image id="55112276"]Five months after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, which produced no clear victor, the formation of an Iraqi government remains at a standstill. Ongoing negotiations…

[escenic_image id="55110711"]RIYADH–A well-known Saudi religious scholar recently advised that a woman could become kin to a man—and thus be alone with him without violating the Islamic ban on gender…

[escenic_image id="55101431"]Recently, American diplomats and military men invoked the constant tensions in the Middle East, namely the Israeli-Palestinian quagmire, as a source of radicalization…

[escenic_image id="55105033"]The life of a great man has reached its completion. This was the realization of Arabs frrm the ocean to the Gulf, including the thousands who went out in the summer heat…

[escenic_image id="55101601"]“Never do I want to give the impression that I am against Islam. Far from it. Nor do I want to give the impression that I am the new Salman Rushdie. I am not […] I…

[escenic_image id="55103737"]Nigeria is in trouble. National elections scheduled for 2011 have the potential to undermine the country’s current precarious stability by exacerbating its serious…

[escenic_image id="55101571"]In late 1798, on the shores of Alexandria, Napoleon addressed a letter to the people of Egypt justifying his invasion. He spoke to them about his respect for Islam and…