Arab-American writer is ambassador for Middle East
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Arab-American poet, playwright and scholar Nathalie Handal is a sort of Renaissance woman for the 21st century.
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The 22-country Arab League will send envoys on a historic first mission to Israel this week to discuss a sweeping Arab peace initiative and how it might prop up embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli and Arab diplomats said Sunday.
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A Coon Rapids High School graduate has received international recognition for her role in launching the first Arab-American literary magazine in the United States.
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BEIRUT: Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity among Arabs, US President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election victory was greeted in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding.
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Washington is sending a veteran Middle East hand. Tehran's envoy is a British-educated diplomat considered one of Iran's top analysts of the West. Combine that with a flexible agenda and a matchmaking Iraqi host &#151; and the international gathering Saturday to help steer Iraq's future also appears as a prime opportunity for some icebreaking overtures between Iran and the United States.
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Talk about the Middle East is upbeat these days in Washington, Europe, and Jerusalem, as presidents, prime ministers, and diplomats express enthusiasm about new opportunities for peace created by the death of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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How Condoleezza Rice hopes to bring peace to the Middle East--and salvage the Administration's foreign policy
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BEIRUT: When the 56th annual Frankfurt Book Fair opens Wednesday, Oct. 6, some 200 novelists, playwrights and poets from the Arab world will arrive with one overriding hope: to stake a claim in the global ...
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BERLIN, Feb. 20 -- Over Christmas vacation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took home a three-foot stack of reports written by the State Department historian on previous efforts by the United States to forge Middle East peace. Rice had read memoirs by her predecessors, but as she embarked on her own effort to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she decided she needed to study a day-by-day diplomatic narrative of  what had gone wrong in the past....
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The recent death of a Middle East leader could change the direction of peace and terrorism in the Middle East and the Coachella Valleyâs international news followers were eager to hear
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WASHINGTON -- American Middle East diplomacy, nearly dormant during the final months of the presidential campaign, sprung into action yesterday as State Department and White House officials grappled with how the United States should respond in the event of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Young Arabs are turning to hip hop to express their feelings about  conflicts in the Middle East
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The top American diplomat in Jerusalem said Monday that the Bush administration is seeking $400 million in new aid for the Palestinian Authority
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 13 -- Shortly before President Bush showed up in the region last week, human rights activist Abduljalil Alsingace tried to deliver a petition to the U.S. Embassy complaining about the lack of democracy in his native Bahrain. He thought he might have some hope,...
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CAIRO  - Egypt raised the prospect of a framework for a Middle East peace deal and said it could soon return an ambassador to Israel, a move that would revive full diplomatic ties after a four-year break.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair, the global publishing industry's biggest gathering, will open Wednesday and roll out the red carpet for Arab authors as the guests of honor at the 56th annual event.
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A book for use in Arab schools describes Israelâs war of independence as a âcatastropheâ for the Arab population.