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It was Ahmed Al-Rabei!

My Colleague, Dr. Mamoun Fandy, wrote in an article ‘The Doctored Photo’, in which he stated that “for many years, Asharq Al-Awsat held an esteemed reputation in the Arab press, as a result of its column ‘journalistic observation’, which criticized the newspaper and...

Michael Moore and the Ground Zero Mosque

“I knew that many of you would respond to my call to help out the embattled Islamic community center being built in lower Manhattan. I asked each of you to send a dollar (or five or ten) to their nonprofit organization, Cordoba Initiative, as a symbolic act...

Iran: Weaker than a Worm

Despite all Iran’s propaganda issued promoting the idea that it is the ‘superpower’ of the Middle East, a power capable of confronting America, according to the Iranian President, Tehran today is at the mercy of the ‘Stuxnet’ electronic virus. This is similar to...

The Ultimate Solution

The incomparable Hollywood director, Francis Ford Coppola, could not have dreamed of producing a scene like that which took place in Beirut last week…a scene that would not have looked out of place in the Godfather trilogy. The former Director General of Lebanese...

From the Airport: The Return to 7 May

Anybody who witnessed the security and political embrace that Hezbollah insisted on demonstrating last week in welcoming Major General Jamil Sayyed cannot help but compare this scene at Beirut international airport to what took place on 7 May two years ago. This...

Prince Naif and Iraq: Without Reservation

An important statement both in timing and in content was issued by Saudi Second Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz, at the close of the meeting of the interior ministers of Iraq’s neighboring countries that was held in Bahrain....