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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, during a ceremony to honor the 2013 NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion team, the University of Connecticut Huskies. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Rewriting the History of Aiding Terrorism

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Feb 14, 2015 | Opinion

In 1992 I made my first visit to North Carolina, and Chapel Hill clearly stood out as its most charming town. I loved that little American “college town” which wasn’t much different from Europe’s beautiful university cities like Oxford, Leiden, Tubingen and Leuven...

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(FILES) – A file picture taken on February 14, 2005 shows a man fleeing the site of an explosion in Beirut in which Lebanese Premier Rafic Hariri was killed. A decade after former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, hopes that the fallout from his death would free Lebanon from Syria’s influence have been dashed […]

Opinion: On the Tenth Anniversary of Hariri’s Assassination

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 14, 2015 | Opinion

Imagine if you could ask Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad whether, if he were able to travel back in time, he would do anything differently regarding the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hariri was killed exactly 10 years ago today. It was...

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Lebanese diva Fairuz performs during a rare concert in Beirut on October 7, 2010. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

Transformation of Fairuz childhood home into museum will begin this year: Beirut mayor

by Vivian Haddad | Feb 13, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The delayed renovation project to turn the childhood home of Lebanon’s legendary singer Fairuz into a museum will begin by the end of this year, the mayor of Beirut said. “When maps and the tender documents for the house repairs are ready, we...

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People gather outside the camp of the 19th Infantry Brigade after it was seized by Al-Qaeda fighters on February 12, 2015 in Baihan, in Yemen’s southern Shabwah province. (AFP)

Yemen’s separatists blame army for Al-Qaeda gains in south

by Arafat Madabish | Feb 13, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Army officials facilitated the takeover of a strategic military base in southern Yemen by Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, Yemen’s southern separatist Al-Hirak group said. Ansar Al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda-linked group, took over the military base in...

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Ma’rib Governor Sultan Al-Arada. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Yemen: Ma’rib governor warns Houthis against advance

by Arafat Madabish | Feb 13, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The governor of Yemen’s Ma’rib province Sultan Al-Arada said local tribes have every right to defend the province from the advance of Houthi fighters, rejecting the “constitutional declaration” issued by the Shi’ite rebel group last...