A permanent ceasefire is the only hope for Syria

  Jonathan Steele The Guardian, Sunday 28 October 2012 20.30 GMT The four-day ceasefire that went into effect on Friday should have been the first good news from Syria for several months. The initiative came from Lakhdar Brahimi, the
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Top Lebanese intelligence official killed

Senior Lebanese intelligence official Wissam al-Hassan, who led the investigation that implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, was killed by a huge car bomb in Beirut on Friday.
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Be adroit, O people!

Who does not know Dale Carnegie? Most inhabitants of the earth know him and know that he was one of leading teachers of humanity in manners and dealing with others during his time. I remember
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American elections and Middle East peace

There was this young Israeli who was captured by cannibals. They put him in the cooking pot and were about to light the fire, when he expressed one last wish: “Please box my ears!”
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Britain and the Islamic movements

I have just finished reading studies that centered on the relationship between the British intelligence (MI6) and political Islamic movements. I also had discussion with three intelligence personnel who worked for security agencies in Iraq,
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Nasrallah and yesterday’s hymn sheet

Is Hassan Nasrallah a “Zionist agent”? Normally, the answer should be: God, forbid! And, yet, this was the charge leveled against him last week by, Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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Is the Fazıl Say affair a case of ‘blasphemy?

Turkish pianist Fazıl Say, a world-renown musician, went on trial the other day before an Istanbul court on charges of insulting religious beliefs. The trial made international news, as many media outlets interpreted the affair
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Murder of Al-Hassan has links to the crisis in Syria

A Saudi father pardoned his son’s killer if he successfully memorized the Holy Quran, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. Rabi’a al-Dousary, father of the slain young man named Abdullah, promised to pardon the
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