Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

Media ID: 55357329
Caption:

Alexander Kots/www.kp.ru, via Associated Press

America’s Retreat and the Agony of Aleppo

by Jessica Purkiss | Aug 29, 2016 | Opinion

Sarajevo and Aleppo, two cities once part of the Ottoman Empire, two cities whose diverse populations have included Muslims and Christians and Jews, two cities rich in culture that have been besieged and split in two and ravaged by violence, two cities where children...

Media ID: 55357325
Caption:

A Turkish army tank drives towards the border in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkish Armed Forces in Race with Syrian Regime to Tabqa

by Nazeer Rida, Saeed Abdulrazeq | Aug 29, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Turkey’s army pushed deeper into Syria as clashes sparked in al-Amarna, 8 km south of Jarabulus. Conflicting news on seizing the village spread; as Free Syrian Army sources announced that FSA seized the village, sources from the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Media ID: 55357326
Caption:

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the crowd outside Rideau Hall after the government’s swearing-in ceremony in Ottawa November 4, 2015. REUTERS/Blair Gable

Chinese-Canadians Fear China’s Rising Clout is Muzzling Them

by Dan Levin | Aug 29, 2016 | World

Toronto-Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is due in China on Tuesday for a much anticipated visit, hoping to reset what had been an up-and-down relationship under the previous government. Closer ties, Trudeau says, would release untapped prosperity at home and...

Media ID: 55357322
Caption:

Iraqi soldiers seen in towns recaptured from ISIS in Diyala province, north of Baghdad (AFP Photo/Younis Al-Bayati)

Fears of inter-Shi’ite Strife in Iraq’s Diyala

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 29, 2016 | Middle East

Diyala –Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has sent an elite force to Diyala governorate after several armed fights erupted between tribes in Abu Saida area. Heavy and medium weapons were used in the clashes that led to the death and injury of several people. An...

Media ID: 55357318
Caption:

Landscapes of Iraqi Poetry: Reconfiguring the Image of Iraq in
the Arabic (and American) Lyric Canon

Myth of Centres and Margins

by Fadel al-Sultani | Aug 29, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Do ranks still exist in our Arab culture as they were in the sixties and seventies? Are Cairo, Baghdad, and Beirut still the centres of that past blissful time, and are the margins that once included other Arab countries like the Gulf and Morocco, still the same? Even...