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Former US President Jimmy Carter presents his opening remarks during a conference on advancing women’s rights at The Carter Center, Friday, June 28, 2013, in Atlanta. Source: AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White

Ex-US president Carter plans to visit North Korea—report

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 29, 2013 | World

Seoul, Reuters—Former US President Jimmy Carter is planning to visit North Korea soon to try to win the release of a US citizen held for committing crimes against the reclusive state, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Monday. Carter has made contact...

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Robert Wright on Religion and Conflict

by Mamdouh Al-Muhaini | May 8, 2013 | Media

Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat—The American writer Robert Wright refuses to be labeled a scholar, preferring instead to be called a journalist. In truth, he combines the best of both fields: expressing thorough scholarly research with the graceful, simple style of the...

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A handout picture taken on November 7, 2012, and obtained from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham on November 9, 2012, shows injured 15 year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai reading a book at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in central England. (AFP PHOTO)

Record 259 Nominees for 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 4, 2013 | World

Oslo, AFP—A record 259 nominees are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize—209 individuals and 50 organisations—with the laureate to be announced in October, the Nobel Institute said on Monday. The list is known to include Malala Yousafzai, the shot...

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US President Barack Obama (R) meets with Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington September 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

The Arab Spring: Obama’s Vietnam?

by Adel Al Toraifi | Jan 23, 2013 | Opinion

In a telephone call between former United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell (May 1964), the president admitted that the Vietnam War could be a protracted one and that he did not see any signs for a resolution on the horizon. Despite this,...