Firoz Osman

Just who is winning, or has won, the war in the Middle East? Lebanon has been virtually pulverized to powder. Over one thousand people have been killed [over half of them women and childen], and nearly four […]

During the presidency of Nelson Mandela, enormous pressure was applied on South Africa to distance itself from those the Western world described as “terrorists or sponsors of terrorism”. Embracing Pales […]

“It’s like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won’t die,” Dov Weissglas, the advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister joked, and the top brass of Israeli government […]

In Algeria in 1992, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was dealt a death blow after it won the first round of the first ever post-independence General Election in that country. A military coup, leading to a […]

A recent closed session on Terrorism in Africa hosted by the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS) followed months of incessant propaganda through media opinion pieces and research papers warning of imminent […]

Contrary to the impression created by Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief, and Joschka Fischer, Philippe Douste-Blazy and Jack Straw, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and the UK, respectively (EU/E3), […]

It is astonishing just how much sympathy the media has generated for the Jewish settlers evacuating the Gaza Strip after 38 years of illegal occupation. Every single Israeli tear and howl of anguish seared the […]

The Arab and Muslim world has endured decades of suffering, humiliation, oppression, occupation and exploitation by some of the most militarily powerful Western countries, particularly Britain, the United States […]

As the Saudi Arabian peninsula becomes more volatile and violent, two million people will descend on Mecca for the annual Hajj (pilgrimage) following a tradition that shadows the footsteps of Prophet Ebrahim […]

As the world AIDS day is commemorated on 1st December, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS reaches almost 50 million, the majority of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. There are over 5 million South […]

Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran to abandon its plans to convert fuel into highly enriched uranium is increasing. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Security Council, coerced by the […]

In mosques throughout the world, the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadaan has been devoted to highlight the problems facing the Palestinians in their struggle for freedom from Zionist occupation. […]

A former Human Rights advocate at Wits University Professor John Dugard in his capacity as Special Rapporteur of the UN’s Commission of Human Rights, has severely attacked Israel. During his tenure as law pr […]

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