We knew the campaign to start a war with Iran was brutal, but we didn't know how ugly it would get, until now. The warmongers, we've just learned, have hired Ryan Seacrest to close the deal.

There simply cannot be any other explanation for the curious timing and unpleasant...

In the spring, as winter turns its corner, it will be a new year. Iranian New Year, Nowruz -- meaning "New Day" -- takes place tonight, on the vernal equinox, and it is the most important holiday of the year for those who celebrate it. But this year, some are...

I do wonder about the British man who stole Saddam's buttock. Nigel Ely, or "Spud," as he prefers, is by all accounts nothing more or less than a thief. And that too, a cheeky one. Not able to get his hands on a more valuable mustache, nose, or...

Already grimacing, she takes the BlackBerry from her assistant Huma Abedin's hand.

"Wow."

The grimace remains. Hillary Clinton's face -- unchanged -- is bent into surprise, her eyebrows knitted, mouth slightly open, as she sits, waiting for the interview to begin.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

It was only last week that the US government tried to negatively portray Iran and Iranians by associating them with political assassinations.

It was just this week that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton openly called for the political assassination of Moammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. "We...

Abdul Fattah Jandali, a young Syrian Muslim immigrant in Wisconsin, never met his son Steve Jobs. When a baby was born to the 23-year-old Jandali -- now known as John -- and his 23-year-old German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no chance he'd be able to grow up...

He is religious -- dogmatically so. He is controversial -- discussing the innocent loss of life from the Holocaust and the September 11th attacks in ways that are deeply hurtful to many people. He also remains mum on the situation in his own country. But Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is...

It would be a hoot and a half if anyone in Hollywood lost their job over allegations of infidelity. By most estimates, Tinseltown would become a ghost town.

Too bad thirty year old Nikita Thukral is based in India, then. The actress and Indian film star -- she...

Since Iran announced its verdict last week for the pair of American hikers caught in 2009 along the Iran-Iraq border, the American media's Iran bashing has slid into its comfort zone. And once again a human rights issue has been transformed into a tool for prejudice.

Instead of helping with...

The little strip of hotels on West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan -- between 5th and 6th Avenues -- is, like many streets in Old New York, a casually important one. The Harvard Club is there. So are the New York Yacht Club and the International Immigrants Foundation.

Important men...

As his enemies on both sides of the aisle of American politics continue to revel in New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's admitted misbehavior, the real world is left to wonder about his young Pakistani-Indian Muslim bride.

When the headlines hit that a lewd photograph was sent from Weiner's account to...

In American politics, it's often not what you say but who you are that matters most, and no one better exemplifies this tradition than Barack Obama. His background and perhaps moreso his foreground -- that which we see when we look at Obama -- has been an endless source of...

Ameneh Bahrami was 23 years old when an inhumane and possessive man destroyed her life. Having had his marriage proposal rejected by her, Majid Movahedi decided it was his right to pour a bucketful of sulfuric acid on her face as she was crossing a street in Tehran...

Young Barack the Second was 25 years old when his mother traveled to Pakistan for her Ph.D. fieldwork. She was a unique woman, an American who married two Muslims from very different backgrounds, and learned languages most Americans have never heard of, including Urdu, one of the main languages of...

When I look at the young Iranian-Americans today, living in a society that has reached the point where it knows where Iran is, how talented Iranians are, and how proud they are, I think back to my childhood in this country when none of that was known.

As members...

They say there is some truth to every stereotype -- that generalizations passed down as fact have some universal merit. Models and actresses and their intelligence levels. Pakistanis and their religious zealotry. Veena Malik and her supporters would vociferously disagree on all counts.

The Pakistani actress and...

Malalai Joya was 26 when she became the youngest woman ever elected as a member of parliament in Afghanistan. Today, she is the country's most famous woman -- a political activist who was just denied a visa for a book tour to the United States because...

One afternoon last year, as I was driving through Adliya in the northeastern corner of the island of Bahrain, I was surprised to find a man begging on the side of the street.

Adliya is a nice part of Bahrain -- a Western part. Not far from the street...

Raymond Allen Davis has been confirmed by the U.S. government to be an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. The main reasons for this confirmation are that a British newspaper already revealed it and, second, to secure a stronger position that Davis has diplomatic immunity -- a special...

The Iranian people have been in the streets for decades. The big moments are crystallized in media memory -- 1979, 1999, 2009, and now. There are people in the streets in Iran this week, as they were last week. They do not want an Islamic Republic of Iran. They want...