by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut – The American University of Beirut (AUB) has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit over charges it assisted three organizations linked to “Hezbollah,” which is designated as a terrorist group by the US. The university, which is a recipient of...
by Kifah Ziboun and Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 10, 2017 | Middle East
Ramallah – US has announced the release of the $221 million for Palestinians, which President Donald Trump had previously frozen and put under review after former US President Obama had ordered at the “last minute” of his presidency. US State Department had confirmed...
by Stephen Glain | Feb 21, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
In spring 2002, with the Second Intifada entering its second year, I was in Damascus drinking tea with a friend in his shop near the Umayyad Mosque. We were watching a televised broadcast of Israel’s assault on the West Bank, which it was reoccupying. When I asked my...
