Topic: Yasser Arafat

Documentary looks at life of Palestinian leader Arafat

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 67 days ago
DUBAI, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence and failed to lead to a Palestinian state.Figures from Arafat ...

Tom Cruise undisputed star of Dubai film festival

AFP Global Edition - 71 days ago
Actor Tom Cruise was the undisputed star on the red carpet at the opening of the Dubai Film Festival, sharing the limelight with Bollywood stars and the widow of late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.Cruise attended the screening of his latest release ...

George Jonas: In the Mideast, everything depends on your definition of peace

Full Comment - 83 days ago
It was four years ago that the last White House-sponsored Middle East peace conference was held at Annapolis, Maryland, on Nov. 27, 2007. It...

Demo condemns extremism in Israel on Rabin anniversary

AFP Global Edition - 96 days ago
Around 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday on the anniversary of former premier Yitzhak Rabin's murder to condemn a rise in far-right extremism in Israel, an AFP correspondent said."Yes to peace, no to violence," read their placards ...

Conrad Black: Middle East truth-telling, from an unlikely source

Full Comment - 97 days ago
Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Simon Deng. . The Palestinian attempt to gain a seat at the United Nations seems to have backfired. The United States has...

Tunisia issues warrant for Arafat's widow

Reuters US Online Report World News - 108 days ago
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Suha Arafat, widow of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, as part of a corruption probe into Tunisia's former first family, the justice ministry said on Monday.Suha Arafat used to spend ...

George Jonas: The kinder form of war

Full Comment - 135 days ago
A missile fired from an unmanned flying vehicle last Friday killed several al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen, including Anwar al-Awlaki, an...

Charles Krauthammer: A Palestinian invitation to suicide

Full Comment - 140 days ago
While diplomatically inconvenient for the western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to get the UN to unilaterally...

George Jonas: Obama doesn't get the arithmetic of the Israel-Palestine situation

Full Comment - 269 days ago
William Philpott/AFP. At Wye River, Hamas was an outlaw. Now it's Abbas' in-law.. . About 10 years ago, when the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh...

How To Wear a Palestinian Scarf

How To Do Things - 444 days ago
A Palestinian scarf or kuffiyeh is a type of clothing used as headdress most commonly by men and is influenced by an Arabic leader, Yasser Arafat...