by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 13, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat – Damascus is coming under increasing pressure from the international community with regards to the brutal crackdown being carried out by the Syrian authorities against the protests and demonstrations taking place in the country. Earlier this...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 11, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat – Maha el-Samnah, also known as Um Omar, is the mother of Guantanamo Bay detainee 766, Omar Ahmed Khadr, and a Canadian citizen of Egyptian descent who had close ties to the Bin Laden family for many years prior to the September 11 attacks. In...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Islamabad / Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat – “They have killed Hamza’s father! They have killed Hamza’s father!” These were the screams that greeted the first Pakistani official to enter the Abbottabad compound following the US raid which resulted...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 9, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, Director of Foreign Affairs and Media Spokesman for the Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s largest opposition party, said that the killing of Osama Bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda, last week in the city of Abbottabad...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 9, 2011 | Features, Interviews
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- According to Dr. Izzat al-Rishq, member of the Hamas Movement’s Political Bureau, the Palestinian factions that signed the Cairo agreement are in continuous meetings to complete the discussion of all issues as soon as possible. In an...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 7, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat – Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with Pulitzer prize-winning American author and journalist Lawrence Wright, who is best known as the author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction book “The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to...
