So far this year, there has been a tendency to vocalize intent and engage in convenient can-kicking, rather than actionable resolve. That's not timidity -- that's testing the state of the ship's rudder.
How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?
Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.
The current status-quo in the Middle East must be disturbed before conditions are right for the next round of Middle East diplomacy.
Stretching for miles along the base of the hillsides just beyond the city of Cairo is a group of ancient cemeteries that occupies approximately 15,000 acres. About 500,000 people call these cemetaries home.
Along with over 200 other Muslim women from 55 countries, I attended panels and seminars, all focused on educating and empowering Muslim women and promoting their rights from an Islamic perspective.
It's a charged time of year, in a prickly piece of real estate. But this is Sinai. Ma feesh mushkila. (No problem.)
There is no necessary connection between soft-pedaling democracy promotion and advancing core American interests. Failing to advance democracy is in itself harmful to these interests.
When Obama takes the stage at the UN, he should seize the moment to turn the world's attention to the nuclear proliferation crisis -- not just by highlighting the issue's urgency, but by providing a clear path forward.
Though Cairo used to have a flourishing Jewish community, most either left or were kicked out. The numbers are not definite, but according to an woman I met there, there are only ten Jews left in Cairo.
Motalakat is an online radio station launched by Mahasen Saber, a thirty-something Egyptian divorcée and mother for other Egyptian women.
Hosny publicly said that he would burn all the books in Alexandria's library that had anything to do with Israel. He also called Israeli culture "racist."
El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November
Living in a conservative society, I can understand that there would be quite a few people who would be offended by those publicly breakfasting during the days of Ramadan.
Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.
As you know, people in Gaza lose their jobs, others lose loved ones and even their own lives, but that does not mean I have to lose my mojo. I am not going to let an international embargo kill my smoothie buzz.
The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.
The Bush legacy in the Muslim world leaves America with a significant credibility gap to overcome.
I never understood how someone could fast from food and water to perform one of the pillars of Islam and still order the killing of the innocent. Shouldn't fasting begin by putting an end to the killing?
Mubarak shares the president's goal of moving the Middle East peace process off dead center, and is well positioned now to be Washington's go-to guy in the Arab world, once again.
Middle East peace and combating extremism are shared preoccupations that define U.S.-Egyptian relations. Yet a less obvious but no less urgent security concern for Egypt is the situation in Sudan.
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