Could Israeli Muslims Kick-Start An Environmental Movement in the Middle East?
I've lived in Israel for almost a decade and was beginning to think that environmentalism in this part of the woods was a Jewish thing. Israel is burs...
I've lived in Israel for almost a decade and was beginning to think that environmentalism in this part of the woods was a Jewish thing. Israel is burs...
Omid Memarian | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Why after the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May, which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese governm...
Luis Carlos Montalván and Tyler Boudreau | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Iraq refugees say the reason they will not return to Iraq is that it is too dangerous and unlivable. Yet living conditions in Jordan are arduous. They wait for a miracle, because that is all that is left.
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Jordan's King Abdullah II held talks Monday with Iraq's prime minister after coming to Baghdad on an unannounced visit, the first by a...
Karin Zeitvogel | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
I'm on the first day of a rapid-fire visit to Jordan, which has provided a safe haven for an estimated 750,000 refugees from Iraq. We also hope to work out if we can provide relief to them.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
During my recent travels to the Middle East, I found that although Obama fairs much better than his rival, early enthusiasm for his candidacy has been replaced by skepticism.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Do reporters like John McCain better? Can Captain Straight Talk Express even complain? And should Obama sidestep his rep as the Anointed One?
Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
Don't keep insisting to the Arabs that you're not a Muslim. They already know that, and they don't care.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
ISA issues aside, eco-touring is no longer a concept found only in the West. More Middle Eastern organizations are starting to cater to the ecologically minded and are marketing eco-tours.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Israel has secretly accomplished more diplomatically in the past few months with its adversaries than anything that Condi Rice could have or would have brokered in years.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
A blogger reported on a lecture given by an advisor to McCain saying that the nominee plans to declare Jordan a Palestinian state. This supposed lecture, however, never took place.
AP | DALE GAVLAK | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living
AMMAN, Jordan — Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches and say it may have been an even m...
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
Queen Rania is at the cutting edge of diplomatic communication and efforts to build global understanding, having launched a webpage on Youtube.
Daniel Levy | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
That most of the crowd loved McCain's speech is a sad reflection on AIPAC, and that it is reaping what it has sown in moving so aggressively to the right in recent years.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment
Spurlock's film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
When General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before a Senate Committee this week, there was one issue never mentioned: that's the issue of Iraqi refugees.
William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
When Jordan's King Abdullah II addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress in March 2007, his speech was filled with words like peace and justice. ...
Mahmood N. Al-Yousif | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
The premise of the Aspen Institute's conference I just attended at the Dead Sea in Jordan was somewhat different from the others I had in the past. Th...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
The next president is going to have rebuild a lot of broken coalitions shattered by years of failed U.S. diplomacy to make that 3am call less of a threat to our sleeping kids.
New York Times | Robert F. Worth | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is ...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Shame on the Democratic presidential frontrunners for not raising this subject more often. Shame on reporters who take the shibboleth from the White House as if it were fact.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
It's taken a terribly long time for Rice -- no Mid-East expert either before, during, or after her 7th year in this administration -- to understand that "elections" do not constitute "democracy."
Russ Wellen | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
The death and forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis can no longer be ignored. The citizens of every American city or town need to provide jobs and lodging for Iraqis.
Raghida Dergham | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics
The US has become interested once again in a leading role regarding Lebanon to correct the errors that have hurt the model of democracy, the reputation of the US and Bush himself.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
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LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
John McCain said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday "that he was uncertain how many houses he and his...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Green