Telling partial truth or untruths is prevalent with politicians.

The hate and ugliness that transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia, exposed the hypocrisy and insincerity in a faraway place, in Israel.All of a sudden, terms like anti-Semitism and terrorism sound hollow when spoken by the current US and Israeli officials.After torch-wielding wh

My daughter and I followed with great interest the final game of the Arab Clubs Championship that was taking place in Alexandria, Egypt.

In a matter of weeks, non-violent protesters and civil society activists marked two important victories in Jerusalem and Amman. After two weeks of praying outside Al Aqsa Mosque, Palestinians succeeded in getting Israel to reverse all the changes that they tried to impose on

A well-known Arabic proverb says a crazy person might throw a stone in the well but it will take a hundred wise persons to get the stone out.This proverb applies to the standoff regarding Al Aqsa Mosque, which has given more power to local Palestinians and allowed them for t

In the fall of 1967, shortly after Israel had annexed East Jerusalem, it attempted to impose the Israeli educational curriculum on all schools in the city.Palestinian families looking for the future and considering the higher education and careers of their children in the Arab wo

New challenges require new responses.This has proven to be true in the efforts of a single woman in her personal struggle against harassment and sexual abuse that is often the norm in many parts of the Middle East.Laila Hzaineh refuses to take abuse without response. Last ye

The Middle East is experiencing one of its hottest summers; not measured by unprecedented temperatures, but by major burning partisanships, blistering new alliances and heated geopolitical shifts.The most stable regional alliance, the Gulf Cooperation Council, is on the verge of

For years, the US Congress was known to be a bastion of pro-Israel sentiment.Voted in with huge funding from pro-Israel sources, Congress has often marched to the orders of AIPC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby.The US administration, on the other hand, has often taken a more nuance