This past week the New York Times, in its inimical fashion reported on Saudi Arabia's efforts to contain the tide of change sweeping the Middle East (...
This past week the New York Times, in its inimical fashion reported on Saudi Arabia's efforts to contain the tide of change sweeping the Middle East (...
For ten years millions of Arabs were held hostage due to the acts of a minority. During this time tens of thousands of lives were lost in senseless violence that only a megalomaniac would be able to justify.
The Arab revolutions have revealed how promising American foreign policy situations can quickly decay by inaction or misguided action. At this point our allies are beginning to view us with doubt while our adversaries view us as indecisive.
Newscaster: The failure of today's pre-dawn Special Forces raid in Tripoli to catch or dispatch Moammar Gaddafi leaves the Obama Administration with a...
Only in Syria, where a growing number of citizens are rising up against the Assad regime, has the United States and the rest of the western world failed to develop or convey any type of policy whatsoever.
There is great excitement these days now that Kazakh Israeli billionaire Alexander Mashkevitch has announced he is planning to launch an international Jewish news network that will serve as Israel's answer to Al Jazeera.
For America's sake, I hope that Al Jazeera penetrates the US media market. Unless Americans see the images and narratives that shape how others see us, the US will not be able to overcome its reputation as the world's half-blind bully.
Will Obama and the others be willing to leave Gaddafi in power, even though the UN Security Council does not call for his removal? That doesn't seem likely. And so they will likely have to go farther down the rabbit hole.
It seems that time is running out for Syrian President Bashar Assad, and with it also the self-denial about what really is happening in the country that has always prided itself as the Heart of Arabism.
Never before has an American president embarked on a war with such reserve. What is the goal in Libya, and how is this likely to play out?
Muammar Gaddafi's bloodcurdling speech yesterday promising an imminent massacre of his opponents in rebel-held Benghazi may prove to be one of the classic political backfires.
When I arrived in the capital of Qatar, as one of the guest participants in the 6th annual Al Jazeera Forum focused on the Arab world in transition, it was clear the mood had changed.
At this year's Al Jazeera Forum, I saw a man sitting by himself, a Libyan flag draped around his shoulders as the latest grim news filtered in from his homeland. Hope abounds, but the revolution is not yet won.
Just as we awoke to find that peaceful crowds in Tunis had toppled Ben Ali, we almost awoke two years ago to find that a peace treaty had been signed between Israel and Palestine. We did not.
Although the tsunami hit in a more rural part of Japan, the damage and the human cost is enormous. The power of nature to overwhelm human endeavors is incredible and truly awful.
We Americans are so isolated from the larger world that we will always be a dollar short and a day late unless we find alternatives to our "media." Al Jazeera is that alternative.
Last night, while in a private meeting with the director general of Al Jazeera, I saw him get called out for an emergency call. I watched his face and instantly knew that a tragedy had happened.
The detention of journalists for trying to provide an independent voice on security incidents in Afghanistan undermines Western governments' otherwise positive efforts to support free media there in the past 10 years.
As people across the Middle East rally against their regimes, Qatar appears to be the only country in the Arabian Gulf to escape unscathed by the politics. There are a dozen reasons why.
Is carrying Al Jazeera English a better business bet than carrying The Vampire Network or Showtime Abs 'n' Buns? Comcast isn't so sure.
Unlike the United States, China has designed an approach to public diplomacy that is well-funded, imaginative, and fully integrated within its overall foreign policy.