The Pessoptimist

The U.S. State Department on Friday formally removed the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq from its official list of terrorist or...

A 17-year-old boy has been killed in Bahrain on Friday in clashes with security forces. More than 50 people have died, including protesters ...

    Midan Tahrir, 8 April 2011 (Jonathan Rashad) Defence Minister General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has issued an order on Saturday reducing ...

 A Gaza tunnel (photo Moises Saman/New York Times) Gaza Gateway wants to correct the perception that Israel is still stopping food item...

Moustafa Bayoumi in Merip (Middle East Research and Information Project) castigates East and West about the way the Danish cartoon controver...

(The picture was taken from the site of the Institute for Palestine Studies , which also carries several  articles about Sabra & Shatil...

This Sunday evening it is Rosh Hashana, the start of the Jewish New Year 5773. I wish my Jewish readers a Shana Tova. May it become a sw...

Egyptian troops in action in the Sinai (AFP). Islamic militants clashed for more than two hours Sunday with army and police in the Sinai...

Protesters on the wall surrounding the American embassy in Cairo are destroying an American flag. (AP)  Third update Friday 14/9.  At le...

Site of a car bomb attack in Basra in the south(AP) The courtroom at Baghdad's criminal court was silent Sunday as the presiding j...

Syrian government troops stormed into a Palestinian refugee district and raided its hospital on Saturday after a four-day artillery assaul...

Israel  has apparently decided to take an even harsher line against refugees that try to enter the country from the south. About a week ag...