By Noha El-Hennawy
Reporting from Cairo – Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.
Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the …

Published in The Nation – April 15th, 2009
All is not well in Obamafanland. It’s not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury’s latest bank …

By Pascale Combelles Siegel
Publisher: Jamestown Foundation
In his second speech of the year, the Amir of the al-Qaeda-allied Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, has …

By Henri Barkey
If Turkish officials are to be believed, even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was surprised by the news that President Obama would visit Turkey at the end of his European tour this week. …

By MARJORIE COHN
A Spanish court has initiated criminal proceedings against six former officials of the Bush administration. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, William Haynes and Douglas Feith may face charges in Spain …

Christi Parsons
Laura King
LOS ANGELES TIMES
ANKARA, Turkey – When President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the United States “is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,” he was talking to Turkey’s parliament. But his …

President Barack Obama, left, smiles at his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, right, during a ceremony at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 6, 2009. Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern …

JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Tracy of the National Institute of Military Justice at American University Washington College of Law says President Obama and Congress should appoint a non-partisan commission to examine and report on policies …

JURIST Special Guest Columnists Representatives David Skaggs (D-CO) (1987-1999) and Mickey Edwards (R-OK) (1977-1993), members of the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Committee, say that despite the Obama administration’s welcome new approach to handling terrorism …

Iran official sees positive U.S. signal in Mideast

REUTERS
Reuters North American News Service
Feb 06, 2009 12:35 EST

MUNICH, Germany, Feb 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to send an envoy to the Middle East to …