When my book “Searching Jenin” was published, soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word “massacre” on what Israel has depicted as a legitimate battle against camp-based “terror

Syrians from a variety of backgrounds are most likely to offer a different perspective on the war in their country and to hold entirely different expectations than most other parties involved.A resident of Idlib, a villager from Daraa, a housewife, a teacher, a nurse or an unempl

It was recently announced that Arab “media experts” are planning to “celebrate” Arab Media Day on April 21, 2016.

The state of Israel was established on the ruins of Palestine, based on a series of objectives that were initialed by letters from the Hebrew alphabet, the consequences of which continue to guide Israeli strategies to this day.The current violence against Palestinian worshippers

When Zionist Haganah militias carried out Operation Yiftach, on May 19, 1948, the aim was to drive Palestinians in the northern Safad District, which had declared its independence a mere five days earlier, outside the border of Israel.The ethnic cleansing of the population of Saf

What does it mean to be a “liberal Arab”?Even in the West, definitions of the “liberal” vary.In the American context, the demarcation of the “liberal” overlaps cultural and political lines. Republicans use the term in a derogatory way to describe their opponents.

The leadership crisis throughout Palestinian history did not start with Mahmoud Abbas and is, regrettably, unlikely to end with his departure.Although Abbas has perhaps done more damage to the credibility of the Palestinian leadership than any other leader in the past, he is also

Another war is in the making in Libya.

On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between then-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigran