The Effects of Consociational Democracy
By Vanessa Zuabi, Staff Writer

Paris, France - Lebanon’s confessional division has been a source of conflict in the country since before its creation, fueled further by regional and international intervention. France, Israel, Syria, Iran and the United States have been financial and political supporters, not of Lebanon, but of its different sects, fueling internal division within the country. [More]

Lessons from the Saddam Trial
By Farah Salka, Staff Writer

Malta, Europe - Three years have passed with the blink of an eye. The renowned Iraqi president is sentenced to death, hanging, to make the picture more vivid. [More]

Capitol Hill in 2007
By Raja Abou Reslan, Staff Writer

Beirut, Lebanon - It was no surprise that after the military fiasco in Iraq, the continued stalemate in Afghanistan, the defiant nuclear threat from both North Korea and Iran, corruption, and growing Republican scandals, that on November 7th , 2006, US voters set out to say that they had had enough. [More]

Darfur, Sudan and Moslems
By Sammy Ibrahim Makilla, Contributing Writer

Tanzania, Africa - Moslems worldwide must condemn what is happening in Darfur.
The leader of Sudan has decided to take Africa back to the 19th century when Arabs used to plunder, pillage, rape and capture healthy Africans for sale outside the continent. [More]

The Price of War
By Ramy Osseiran, Contributing Writer

Beirut, Lebanon - Regardless of one’s political affiliations, and regardless of which day of the month of March one prefers (8 or 14), no one can deny that the July war had a very strong (negative) effect on the Lebanese economy. The losses to the Lebanese people are fourfold. [More]

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