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Questions about the US’s knowledge of the attacks of September 11 were raised even before the dust had settled in New York. Now details are emerging. Officials in the Bush administration are struggling to explain embarrassing revelations...

As some sort of normality — albeit a uniquely Palestinian kind of normality — settles in the West Bank following the Israeli invasion in March and the atrocities at Jenin, there is a growing sense that Palestine is at another crossroads, another stage at which the struggle for freedom and self-determination makes a new start in a new direction...

In the early eighties, Peshawar was the hub of activity for anti-Soviet fighters.

When news emerged of fighting in the southern Gaza town of Rafah after jumu‘ah prayers on August 14, many observers would have been surprised to learn that it was between Hamas authorities and militants belonging to a Salafi-Jihadi group known as Jund Ansar Allah — “Soldiers of the Followers of Allah”...

Michael Jackson’s burial on August 29, more than two months after his death, will finally allow his soul to rest in peace. But there is a troubling side to his troubled life and equally troubling death...

Can Israel ever be repentant, and in what way? by Azzam Tamimi. FOUR years ago when the PLO and Arab governments were racing to make peace with the Zionist entity, millions of Muslims - Arabs as well as others - despaired of ever being able to liberate Palestine and dismantle the Jewish state...

Morocco's king Hasan II, the progenitor of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, and launderer of Shimon Peres and the late Yitzhak Rabin into currency acceptable in Arab capitals, paving the way for the 1993 Oslo sellout...

AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ALGERIAN MASSACRES edited by Youcef Bedjaoui, Abbas Aroua and Meziane Ait-Larbi. Pub: Hoggar Books, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999. Hbk: UK24.00 (UK); pp: 1,473.

இன்று ‘மூன்றாம் உலகு’ என்றழைக்கப்படும் நிலப்பகுதிகளை ஐரோப்பிய-அமெரிக்க சக்திகள் பலாத்காரமாகப் பௌதிக ரீதியில் பிடித்துவைத்து, நம்பவொண்ணா அளவில் அவற்றின் வளங்களைச் சுரண்டிவந்த ஒரு வரலாற்றுக் காலகட்டமே காலனித்துவம் என்று பெரும்பாலும் தற்போது புரிந்துகொள்ளப் பட்டிருக்கிறது. மேற்கத்திய சக்திகளின் இந்த அமைப்பு ரீதியான கொள்ளை ஸ்பெயினிலிருந்து துவங்கியது.

To be a European Muslim by Tariq Ramadan. Pub: The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, UK, 1999. Pp: 272. Pbk: £5.95.