Badu identifies with Palestinian hip-hop
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Sporting a huge, billowing Afro and a T-shirt with an anti-Iraq war slogan, Erykah Badu said she identifies with Palestinian hip-hop and expressed support for Louis Farrakhan before a crowd of Israeli fans and journalists Thursday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - A close associate of popular Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti was visiting him in jail to discuss his plan to run for the presidency in January despite the party&#39;s choice of another candidate.
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Fatah chief Farouk Kaddoumi said the group&#39;s leader in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, by deciding to seek the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.
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Marwan Barghouti, jailed in Israel, makes a splash in the Palestinian presidential race
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Daniel Barenboim, the world renowned Israeli pianist and conductor, has taken Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples.
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It will be a long time before a new Palestinian leader commands the public admiration and political power that Yasser Arafat did. This power enabled him to make concessions that no previous Palestinian leader would have considered.
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Aaron Gandhi, grandson of the late Indian Prime Minister Mahatma Gandhi, described Thursday&#39;s situation in the Palestinian territories as similar to the apartheid that once preyed South Africa.
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Yasir Arafat was both the symbol of the Palestinians&#39; hope for a viable, independent state and the prime obstacle to its realization.
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THROUGH THE different stages of his life as chief of Fatah, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and president of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat&#39;s one consistent principle has been to keep the reins of power wrapped tightly around
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The devil dancing in the Middle East is dead. After Arafat used his life to deny Palestinians a national state, Palestinians will now have the chance to use Arafat&#39;s death to usher in a new era of compromise.
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Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S. ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
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Cloaking himself in Yasser Arafat's legacy, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas opened his campaign for president Saturday with a pledge to fulfill Palestinian dreams of statehood.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti has decided to run for the post of Palestinian Authority president, a member of the dominant Fatah faction&#39;s higher committee said.
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CAIRO [MENL] -- A Palestinian linked to an Islamic group in the Gaza Strip has been identified as the mastermind of a series of bombings in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 34 people.
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Le condizioni di salute di Yasser Arafat sono in miglioramento, ma il raÃ¬s &quot;non sarÃ  piÃ¹ lo stesso&quot;. Imad Shakur, consigliere del leader palestinese, ha raffreddato oggi gli entusiasmi per i progressi fatti
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The three days of festivities marking the end of the month of Ramadan, Id al-Fitr, which began yesterday in the Palestinian Authority, give the leadership something of a brief time-out
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The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger than the late President Yasser Arafat. The decades-long symbolism that Arafat embodied should not be underestimated.