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It is a matter of great concern that blindness is on the rise all over the world. What is more worrisome to note is that 90 percent of the...

European Union (EU) has been established over a two millennia of experience. After centuries full of wars, conflicts, blood, tear… European nations have been able to set aside all...

Our beloved Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sal-lam’ states as follows in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “Human beings cannot free themselves from the following three things: ‘Sû‑i zan’, ‘Tayara’ and ‘Hasad’. When...

Israel’s Role in the Fatah-Hamas Rivalry Israel is supportive for a delay in the PLC elections for the same reason as Fatah: fear of a decisive victory for Hamas....

A platform balance, serious, confident… Held on to vision it consists within its body, aiming to lay its mission on today… Representing a balance carried by the world… Address...

    Prior to the beginning of the uprisings in the Middle East, cultural reasons were put forth to provide explanations why this region had not experienced democratic reforms...

“Egypt ... to Where?” is asking Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, a respected Egyptian journalist, in his recent book, 2 years after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. People were gathering in...

The once all-powerful Turkish armed forces are cowed, if not quite impotent. Imagine a country with NATO’s second-largest army that counts Iraq, Iran and Syria as neighbours and is...

The line snakes around the block, hundreds of people wrapped up against the early autumn chill. The crowd waits patiently as a sensibly-dressed, middle-aged woman wanders along the queue,...

Following the recent arrest of reporters, we examine the deteriorating state of journalism in election year Iran.   On the Listening Post we track the treatment of media around the world....