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Asharq Al-Awsat‘s Deputy Editor-in-Chief talks to Egyptian Vice President Mohamed El-Baradei at the Federal Palace, Cairo. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: Life Savings

by Ali Ibrahim | May 19, 2015 | Opinion

I write this article after months of forced absence. I have yet to return home and am still in the process of recovery. So should I wait for longer or write? In truth, the journalist in me triumphed in the end, and since I have spent a considerable period of time in...

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This image obtained from the SITE Intelligence Group on March 12, 2015, shows a frame from a propaganda video by the Islamic State (IS) group showing a white car alongside an inset image of a young man who appears to be Melbourne teen Jake Bilardi sitting in a driver’s seat at an undisclosed location, allegedly […]

Opinion: Abu Who?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion

One can only be shocked and surprised by the way the Arab media has been reporting on terrorism and terrorists. Most recently we had the story of the Australian teenager Jake Bilardi, aged 18, who is believed to have carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq’s central...

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Asharq Al-Awsat‘s Deputy Editor-in-Chief talks to Egyptian Vice President Mohamed El-Baradei at the Federal Palace, Cairo. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: When will Ali Ibrahim return?

by Salman Al-dossary | Feb 24, 2015 | Opinion

Every Tuesday, our dear colleague Asharq Al-Awsat Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ali Ibrahim would write his weekly op-ed. However, for two weeks now he has been absent from his family, friends and readers—as well as his extended family here at Asharq Al-Awsat. After...

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Monitors display a news program at an electronics shop in Seoul, South Korea, showing a local newspaper with a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Opinion: Media Wars

by Ali Ibrahim | Dec 24, 2014 | Opinion

The media wars in the Arab world that erupted before and after the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings are well-known to ordinary people who switch between Arab and international news channels in order to familiarize themselves with the different points of view or angles of...

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A soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School that was under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014. (Reuters/Khuram Parvez)

Opinion: A Chilling Response to a Terrible Tragedy

by Diana Moukalled | Dec 23, 2014 | Opinion

When news of the school massacre in Pakistan’s Peshawar first broke, it seemed exaggerated and unreal. One’s mind is sometimes incapable of believing such events are possible, or rather immediately rejects the notion that someone has decided the time has come to...