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Gaza and Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War

The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in...

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Dubai to seek Israel PM for Hamas killing: report

Dubai will issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel is found...

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Muslim-Americans suffering in silence

As I was checking my e-mail in December, I couldn't believe the headline I saw:...

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Airport screening for 'Flying while Muslim'

It seems that now someone called "Barack Hussein Obama" can be pulled aside and patted...

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Opinion

The Wall of Shame

It is common knowledge that the Palestinians have long been direct victims of the directionless, spineless and hypocritical polices of the Arab leadership. It is equally common knowledge that the...

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Obama's Budget Ducks Pentagon Cuts

The results of the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy reverberated like a “shot heard ’round the world” — or at least one heard...

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The Divisive Role of the 'Resistance Bloc'

It seems the world has been moving aimlessly in endless eddies. This was evident at the ‘Arab International Forum for the Support of the Resistance’ held in Beirut in mid-January....

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The Holocaust Backfires

Ynet reports: Peres in Berlin, Netanyahu in Auschwitz, Lieberman in Budapest and Edelstein at the UN headquarters in New York all plan to attack the Goldstone report into the Gaza...

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Pentagon Time: Tick…Tick…Tick…

Back in 2007, when General David Petraeus was the surge commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery. In an interview in April of that...

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Something About Yemen

“The instability in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability” — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Yemen is a regional and global threat” —British Prime...

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The Community

University professor becomes first Muslim superior court judge

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A University political science professor became the first Muslim ever to be appointed to the Superior Court in New Jersey on Jan. 27 when he was sworn in to the...

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CAIR: Calif. Mayor Says He is ‘Growing a Christian Community’

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The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on California religious and political leaders, particularly Republicans, to speak out in support of religious...

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Soliman: Survey finds stereotypes of Muslim-Americans persist

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I RECENTLY had a conversation with a Rutgers University law professor who was curious about my career in journalism. She was fascinated because she was not aware of many Arab...

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Muslims helping Haiti

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Haiti is experiencing unimaginable suffering from its devastating earthquake, with more than 150,000 dead and one to three million individuals displaced. Individuals, groups and governments from around the world have...

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Members of U.S. Congress Ask President Obama to End the Blockade of Gaza

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Washington, D.C., 54 Members of the House of Representatives led by Congressman Ellison of Minnesota and Congressman McDermott from Washington State signed a letter to President Obama asking his Administration...

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Culture

Hanan Turk in a comedy for the first time

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  The Egyptian actress Hanan Turk will play a comedic role for the first time in the new television drama series “Al Qitah Al Amyah” (The Blind Cat). The new...

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UAE office workers waste 13 million days on tea and gossip

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New research shows that office workers in the UAE spend considerable time engaged in non-work-related activites while at their desks.

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Lebanese designers lace up for Paris couture catwalks

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BEIRUT - From the catwalks of Paris and New York to the red carpets of Cannes and the Oscars, Lebanese designers are taking the couture scene by storm, pitching the...

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Gaza rappers use hip hop to speak to West

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If hip hop is a genre of music associated with the struggle of a people, then there is no better place than the impoverished, blockaded and recently bombarded Gaza Strip...

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Swiss man builds mock minaret to protest ban

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 A Swiss man built a mock minaret on top of his warehouse to protest what he called a "scandalous" ban on the structure that is associated with mosques, press reports...

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Feature

Gaza school children traumatized and hungry

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Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1...

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Gaza's untold story

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One year on since Israel's criminally-insane war on Gaza, many are still unaware of the...

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Israeli-besieged Gaza's Christians look to tunnels for Christmas gifts

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GAZA CITY - This year Santa had to ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl...

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Egypt sexual harassment hits "savage" levels

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Egypt's deputy parliament speaker said women needed a law to protect them from sexual harassment...

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Child soldiers on the rise in Yemen

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SANAA - The huge poster hanging in the press conference shows a Yemeni boy dressed...

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Torture systematic in Egypt 'police state'

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Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, human rights...

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