Bahrain prosecutor to question Al Wasat ex-editors (AP)
AP – The former chief editor of Bahrain’s main opposition newspaper says he’s been summoned by a prosecutor investigating the paper’s allegedly unethical coverage of the Shiite uprising against the...
View ArticleSaudi propaganda sheet
You have to read this editorial by the propagandist for Prince Salman and his sons (editor of Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat): He says that Mubarak fell because he kept talking about the Palestinian problem. I...
View ArticleThe Lebanese editor of Al-Hayat (mouthpiece of Khalid bin Sultan): Are you...
Rudy sent me this: “I am a Political researcher residing in London, and I was working on a study of Arab Media in London when I came across an embarrassing article by al-Hayat’s editor in chief on King...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of May 23, 2011 (The Christian Science...
The Christian Science Monitor – Peace within reach?The April 25, 2011, issue featured three commentaries regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“Peace Within Reach”). I agree with all three...
View ArticleThis is hilarious: Saudi propagandists try to appease Israelis, and Israels...
“”The world would be a better place without Gadhafi, and our region is beginning to rid itself of those leaders who brought their citizens nothing but destruction,” Tariq Alhomayed, the editor of the...
View ArticleBahrain newspaper staff fined over false stories (AP)
AP – A court has fined the top editor of Bahrain’s main opposition newspaper and three staff members for publishing purportedly false stories about abuses against Shiite-led protesters. Go to Source
View ArticleAnis Mansour, 1925-2011
Ahram Online Anis Mansour, Egyptian writer, journalist, editor and columnist, has died at age 87. Obit here. Novelist, memoirist, journalist (he wrote for most of Egypt’s major publications, most...
View ArticleChris Boucek and Hossam Tammam, RIP
Two Middle East analysts who were friends of mine passed away recently. I woke up this morning to an email from the Carnegie Endowment announcing that Chris Boucek, an expert on security issues and the...
View Article"Arab League and U.S. Not Fit to Intervene in Syria"
“Arab League and U.S. Not Fit to Intervene in Syria”: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad Go to Source
View ArticleWhen people tell lies about Arabs in the Western press, they are not even...
“Most people in the Arab world, according to opinion polls, believe that the Holocaust never happened.” Did the editor at the LA Times ask this Zionist hater to provide evidence for his claim? If an...
View Article"Egyptian Student Abroad" Blog
I wanted to call to your attention the Egyptian Student Abroad blog/website, which has essays and articles by (can you guess it?), Egyptian students abroad (mostly in the US and Canada from what I’ve...
View ArticleThe Barbarian Has to Keep It Real
Sinan Antoon (far right) near the Symbolic Tomb at the Martyr’s Monument in Baghdad (2003). Image from Encounter Productions. The Barbarian Has to Keep It Real: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan...
View ArticleIntroducing The Editor’s Reader
What should you be reading about the politics of today’s Middle East, beyond (of course) the outstanding daily content on the Middle East Channel and the news and analysis featured in the MEC Daily...
View ArticleParis Review
“Plimpton’s letter on Pasternak is essential, however, because for many years a small group of journalists has been trying to pry more information out of Matthiessen on the still-unknown extent of the...
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