I am an Arab Jew. Or, more specifically, an Iraqi Israeli woman living, writing and teaching in the U.S. Most members of my family were born and raised in Baghdad

Akhtham Suliman, Al-Jazeera’s longtime Germany correspondent, details the reasons for his recent resignation from the station. There are interviews with Suliman circulating in English, but this piece, published in the FAZ, includes a number of poignant anecdotes, which paint a disturbing picture of Al-Jazeera’s decline. 

It is interesting to receive two different news stories on the same day; both of which mentioned the Gulf state of Bahrain and the UK Parliament.

Arab Spring is not the governments that follow the fall of the regimes. It is rather the Arab youth who started the revolution, and adopted and protected its big project.