Islam divides the world into two conceptual geographies, Dar Al Islam, house of Islam and Dar Al Harb, house of war. The classical Islamic scholar Abu Hanifa (d. 767 CE) defined Dar al-Islam based on ...

Arafat and the PLO flee Lebanon in August and settle in Tunis, Tunisia, where they remain until moving to Gaza in 1994.The Israel-backed Lebanese president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, is assassinated ...

In 2026 - Eban's 1974 words of wisdom still remain the key to ending the unresolved Jewish-Arab conflict: Allocating sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza between Jordan and Israel – the two successor ...

JERUSALEM -- One of the most popular leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued a prison-cell appeal Tuesday for high-level change in the Palestinian Authority -- the first time Marwan Barghouti has ...

Israel and its western allies may call him “terrorist,” or “irrelevant,” but, for his people and millions around the world, Yasser Arafat was a hero, a freedom fighter, a man of principles and, most ...

For decades, the prevailing notion was that the ‘solution’ to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue can achieve peace” has been the relentlessly ...