When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold...well, this cold has reached the hot desert of Arabia. The demise of Wall Street has reached the Arabian Sahara and is threatening to put an end to its construction boom, which has flourished from several years of petro-bonanza.

I have to give credit where credit is due. Last night, Sarah Palin managed to say Ahmadinejad three times without stumbling or stuttering like her partner John McCain did when he debated Barack Obama. And yes, I know she confused McClellan for David McKiernan when referring to the commanding general...

With the U.S. financial crisis taking center stage in American politics, no one these days has been paying much attention to Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or for that matter the entire Middle East.

Shortly before presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain met with President Bush on Thursday to work...

Tonight, President Bush will address the nation to drum up support for his 700 billion dollar bail out of Wall Street at a time when 55% of Americans oppose government aid to failing financial firms, according to a poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg.

I'm not a...

It's been several months since a war of words erupted between Iran and Israel, raising speculations that a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West and Israel suspect of enriching uranium for the purpose of making nuclear bombs, might be near. However, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently...

Today is the seven year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The Bush administration is entering its final months, and a new president will inherit two wars and face an evolving terrorist threat.

On this day, I cannot help but reflect on a forgotten moment during the Republican National Convention....

Patriotism and "Country First" have become the theme for John McCain's campaign. Several speakers, including the Republican nominee himself, John McCain, touted the success of the surge in Iraq at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Amidst chants of "USA, USA," the Iraqi people's suffering was forgotten. In...

It has been a dizzying week trying to watch most of the speeches at the DNC while they are talked over by network anchors, then sliced and diced by their "best political teams." CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Company took center stage in the arena like sportscasters, while other network anchors...

Two days in a row this week car bombs rocked towns near the capital of Algeria, killing 60 members of the security forces, police recruits, and Canadian workers. The North African wing of the al-Qaeda terror network, known until last year as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, has...

It is very unusual in the Middle East to turn on the television or read a newspaper without finding a major story about a new development in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Israel and Palestine. However, this week was different. The crisis in the Caucasus stole the headlines, but it was not...

With less than six months remaining before leaving the White House, the Bush administration, desperate to show it had made inroads into Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network has decided to take a gamble by trying Salim Hamdan.

Hamdan, however, was nothing more than a chauffeur, paid to drive Osama Bin...

Skyrocketing oil and natural gas prices in the second quarter of this year led ExxonMobil to report the highest profit ever by an American company. In spite of falling production and rising operating costs, Exxon brought in a 138 billion dollars in revenue and reported an astounding net income of...

There are similarities between Senator Barack Obama's visits to Jordan and Germany: Mr. Obama has chosen historic backgrounds for his outdoor appearances.

In Germany, Mr. Obama spoke to an adoring crowd just a few feet away from where the Berlin Wall once stood. In Jordan, the Senator held his...

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met President Hamid Karzai while on a visit to Afghanistan. He will soon be heading to Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. Here are seven recommendations that his team of 300 advisors might have missed:

1. Don' t keep insisting to the...

This past Wednesday, in a rare public appearance, Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah greeted the five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel after his organization returned the bodies of two captured Israeli soldiers.

"The period of defeat is over and the time of victory has arrived," said a beaming...

Just recently, Taliban fighters drove a car filled with explosives up to Sarposa prison, the largest detention facility in Kandahar. They were able to free hundreds of their prisoners who can now return to fighting Afghan and NATO troops.

In April, during the Mujahedin Day military parade, a celebration...

A fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas went into effect just a couple of days ago. If the ceasefire holds for three days, Israel is obliged to increase fuel supplies to Gaza, and then Hamas and Israel are expected to renew indirect talks in Cairo next week over a prisoner...

In what's described as a "farewell tour," President Bush is on a six-country European visit. Included in his agenda is asking his hosts to make greater contributions to Afghanistan -- both in money and troops, as well as the ongoing issue of Iran's nuclear program.

When asked about Iran at...

This past Wednesday, at the Annual Policy Conference of AIPAC- the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, presidential candidate, Barack Obama drew a standing ovation when he pledged his "unshakeable commitment to Israel's security" if he is elected president in November, and declared that Jerusalem should stay an undivided Israeli...

Scott McClellan reminds me of Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information, Muhammad Sai'd Al Sahhaf... kind of.

For those who have forgotten or are too young to remember, Al Sahhaf was the most visible and colorful Iraqi official during the invasion of Iraq...