The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

He can't help himself: "Having just stirred up a global storm by quoting from a text fiercely critical of Islam, it might have been...

Don't you like it when clerics of different religions bond?

Should not Muslims be insisting (also at least) that their rulers apologize to them for their offensive words AND deeds?

As a letter to the editor in AnNahar, I read a letter by Lebanese playwright Faysal Farhat. I knew Faysal (a former hardcore Salinist Leban...

Dumb media. The matter is now settled. So An-Nahar newspaper (the dying sectarian Christian, right-wing newspaper in Lebanon) interviewed ...

I had posted a letter from Ziyad Rahbani to mini-Hariri. Today, Rahbani issued a statement to Hariri rag (of all places) denying that he had...

Angry Arab East Canada Tour . My speaking schedule in Canada next week: Monday 25 McGill; Tuesday 26 McMaster; Wednesday 27 Queens U; Thurs...

"Pope Gets it Wrong on Islam"

Hummus in the streets . An American correspondent in Lebanon wrote me this: "i was driving back from...and when we got to naameh just ...

"Filkins, who will begin a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University this month and start work on a book, said that 98% of Iraq, and eve...

I hope that this is not true: " Pro-Israeli editors seek to influence Al-Jazeera International English Satellite TV"

I was amused that the New York Times has asked that the Pope apologizes to Muslims. That newspaper has a long record of sensitivity to Musl...

Kensett, John Frederick, Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1857 .

"“Let me just first tell you that I’ve never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."

When occupiers face trouble, they blame their puppets: "Karzai blamed for ‘hellhole’ strategy"

"One senior Anglican source said: “If anything, Islam was the religion of reason ahead of Christianity. Mathematics and medical science...

To receive American attention and support, Arab governments now resort to inventing sinister Al-Qa`idah plots. This week alone, the Syrian ...

"Israel cannot give up this spirit because of the peculiar existential threat it faces." Don't the Israeli propagandists in ...

"O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do...

" Bombs shatter Lebanon's Roman legacy" (Tell the Observer that these were Israeli bombs).

"The women describe how soldiers they have spoken to have had one day off in eight weeks because of relentless fighting with Taliban fo...

So the Pope had also said: "'the history of Islam also contains a tendency to violence'." OK, o Pope. Tell me. What ten...

" Pope Benedict's long mission to confront radical Islam : This is not the first time the pontiff has spoken out on the links betwe...

I read this review of my book. I sent this letter to the editor of the journal: " Please don't print unless you print in full. ...

The puppet has spoken: "Jordan's Abdullah warns U.S. mistakes since 2001 fueling terrorism"

" The villages of Arab al-Aramsha, Fesuta, Miyaliah and Gush suffered serious damages during the recent conflict with Hezbollah but wer...

We know where the Pope stands: "Saying that the “sons of Allah breed like rats,” she strongly condemned the growing immigration of Musl...

Samir Khalaf's Saga. So I reported to you about the fawning letter that he wrote and that was translated and published in An-Nahar. Se...

When religions clash , or when religious people clash over religion, I watch with little amusement. Yet, there is no question that there is...

" But Katyusha Damage Much Less Than Claimed by Israel "

Sources in Beirut tells the Angry Arab that Fu'ad Sanyurah was berated by the Saudi king during his visit to Saudi Arabia. House of Sau...

Kensett, John Frederick, Sunset on the Sea, 1872 .

" Our challenge now is to maintain the momentum towards a lasting peace in Lebanon while countering the efforts of Hizballah, Syria, an...

"Interrogation Options Seen as Vital" (This is a headline from the Washington Post. By "interrogation options" the pa...

"Bush defends demands for CIA 'torture' power" (All what he's saying. Give torture a chance.)

"From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to Bagram, to the battlefields of Iraq and to the "black" prisons of the CIA, humiliation and ...

News from "liberated" Afghanistan: " Better paid, better armed, better connected - Taliban rise again"

Husam `Itani on Angry Pope.

"At Auschwitz, in May, [the Pope] appalled many Jews by passing up what they saw as a historic opportunity for a German pope to apologi...

Former Israeli army chief-of-staff on the aerial bombardment of Lebanon: " The air force delivered the goods."

" Eight-year-old Emily Billings makes a pillow out of sow's ear at the Oxford, Maine, county fair. Her 5-month-old Yorkshire pig, C...

Hummus Hits the fan. Now that the Israeli war on Lebanon has ended--more or less--the Lebanese sects can now resume their (un)civil confli...

Shhhh. Hamid Karzai, I mean, Iyad `Allawi, I mean Fu'ad Sanyurah, I mean, Nuri Al-Malki, I mean, King `Abdullah (either of them), I mea...

Fareed Zakaria is now considered a prominent foreign policy analyst in the US. Here, he provides his sophisticated analysis of Sunnis and S...

The Minister of Walid Jumblat's Private Jet (by Khalid Saghiyyah)