Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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A undated photograph of Helmi Hashim, believed to be the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s top Shari’a judge. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Four Egyptians behind ISIS takfirist ideology: sources

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Oct 12, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Four Egyptian men are at the heart of attempts by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to find religious justification for its bloody attempts to forge a new “caliphate,” a number of experts on fundamentalist movements told Asharq...

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Assad has conceded making mistakes and says no side in his country’s civil war is entirely free of blame. (AP Photo/SANA)

Opinion: An Invention of Assad’s Media Machine

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Oct 10, 2013 | Opinion

Ever since I heard the story of “sexual jihad” in Syria and, for example, the group of Tunisian girls who traveled there for this purpose and then returned home pregnant, I have been very skeptical of the authenticity of such stories. I suspect it not out...

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Gamal al-Banna, younger brother of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, at the Gamal al-Banna Foundation in Cairo. Banna passed away at the age of 93 in Cairo on January 30, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE)

The Sun Sets on Al-Banna

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Feb 1, 2013 | Opinion

Two days ago, Islamic jurisprudence and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood expert Gamal al-Banna, brother of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, passed away. He left our world at the age of 93. Early on in his life he distanced himself from his brother’s...