The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

"he favors a more secular Islamic democracy ".

From a reader:  "After the defeat of Assad this FSA spokesman predicts a second 'sectarian' war with the Alawite minority in ...

Taha Husayn's views on Egyptian nationalism evolved over the years. I rarely see references to that. In the 1960s, Husayn claimed in pu...

Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani is so hard to classify or to categorize or label.  I am never sure how to label him.  Was he a revolutionary or a r...

When I read references in Hizbullah media or literature to their religious doctrine and to the signs of the return of the 12th Imam , I fee...

I will spare you the boring sequence of emails back and forth between Norman Finkelstein and me about BDS in the last few days.  Norman (wh...

To be consistent, if you want to hail the surrender of power from one unelected Emir in Qatar to another unelected Emir, you should then ha...

"Saudi Arabia: Syrian rebels must be armed ".  Wait : so the armed rebels must be armed? This is like saying the hungry should b...

"the Future Movement, led by the powerful Sidon-based family of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister assassinated in 2005, has oft...

The new Emir of Qatar, despite his youth, has managed to acquire two wives already (I mean, simultaneously). 

I was reading the communiques of the coup of 1961 which engineered the secession from UAR.  It struck me that only communique number 2 star...

The Syrian National Council issued a loud congratulations for Qatar for the transfer of power from the Emir to...his son--his son, damn it....

Now, as far as the involvement of Hizbullah in the clashes in Sidon: here is what I believe.  Without any analysis or information I can cat...

  This is not the first time that the Emir of Qatar surrendered power to his son. It had happened before in 1960, as this clip from Al-Ahra...

 

This is quite something.  Al-Majallah (the mouthpiece of Prince Salman) publishes a cover story against Edward Said written by neo-con Jos...

  A sign in Egypt accuses the US ambassador in Egypt of supporting "killers, terrorists, and Ikhwan".

In this arrogant and conceited democracy of the USA, notice the debate about Snowden: forget the consensus that he is traitor, forget that ...

When the new US ambassador in Lebanon negotiated with the Lebanese Communist Party.

Watch MTV now LIVE: pro-Syrian publisher of Ad-Diyar, Charles Ayyub, is officially drunk. 

This is humorous. A pro-Syrian regime publisher of Ad-Diyar, who had admitted receiving money from Rafiq Hariri and Prince Bandar, writes ...

"‘Bill, I’m with you about the Muslims. ’" (thanks Michele)

"Medics transport an injured Lebanese soldier, after clashes between followers of a radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and S...

"Yet nominating a member of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, remembered for a 1997 massacre of visitors in Luxor that some call "Egypt'...

"As if that wasn't nauseating enough, I've also read an article in the Israeli daily Haaretz about Power's recent job in ...

"He served in Lebanon as Deputy Chief of Mission from 1998 to 2001, and as a Political Officer from 1992 to 1994. He also served over...

The press releases and reports by Human Rights Watch office in Beirut are but an anthology of propaganda literature of March 14. They still...

From Jason:  "You've probably heard of this one before, but... Basically, my father recently told me a story that an Egyptian fr...

From Yazan:  " On your post regarding the new zombie movie, the person is right. It's an Israeli-lovefest, one that even the Isra...

"In response to these developments, Ken Roth, head of "Human Rights Watch," tweeted : "Snowden’s # Ecuador is li...

"According to a source privy to the talks between the Obama administration and the rebel Supreme Military Council, a decision on how ...

He is shown here with his influential mother, Mozah.

" Giza prosecutors have ordered the arrest of 15 people implicated in the murder of four Egyptian Shias in attack by Sunni Muslims ...

From Emily:   "mitchell prothero I just spent 3 hours with the Hezbollah unit taking down Assir's men in Sidon. There...

So it is official.  I still stick to my post from yesterday: the Emir of Qatar directs all his policies on the basis of his hostility to Sa...

Jadaliyya has been providing excellent coverage of Turkey.

My latest blog post about Ahmad Al-Asir of Sidon for Al-Akhbar English.

Aljazeera broke the news of an impending meeting tomorrow between the Emir of Qatar and his family council and "those who tie and lose...

Do you know that Zionist media, like the New York Times, never care about the lives of the Palestinians unless those Palestinians are spie...

“How does one pro­pose to win sup­port for the Pales­tin­ian cause based on inter­na­tional law yet not sup­port two states? That just does...

Look who they are promoting now.   (thanks "Ibn Rushd")

Notice that the US embassy in Beirut which interferes in all aspects of Lebanese political and social life is mum about the clashes in Sido...

Abdallah sent me this:  "A company out of Idaho is selling this ingenuous product : This private company has a Facebook page where ...

If you think about it, Western academics reacted to Bernal's Black Athena in tones and language used previously against Edward Said...

"Global Zero says the United States has 7,700 nuclear warheads, citing a Federation of American Scientists report. The Department of ...