That half of his farm lies in Syria and half in Lebanon is a source of mystery and inconvenience for Mohammed al-Jamal, whose family owned the property long before Europeans turned up and drew the lines that created the borders of the modern Middle East. Jamal has mostly...

Again and again the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights raises outrage within Syrian opposition by distorting the facts and being too biased to Basher Al Assad’s side, activists said. The recent news by Rami Abdul Rahman, the only man who runs the...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s statements that the Shiite holy city of Karbala must be the Qibla - the direction to which Muslims pray - has stirred controversy among Islamic scholars. “Karbala must be the Qibla of the Islamic world because Imam Hussein...

  Controversy has snowballed this month over prominent Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani’s statement that his mother, the legendary Arab singer Fairuz, supports Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Fairuz, a Syriac Orthodox Christian born in Beirut, is among the best known and...