President receives Nigerian Vice President and Tawakkol Karman

Tara Sonenshine, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs (State Dept.) Tawakkol Karman of Yemen won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for championing women's rights and human rights. If the nations of the Middle East and North ...

AMMAN It is time for the Arab world to realise the importance of womens participation in all walks of life, especially in politics, and respect their rights, Tawakkol Karman, the first Arab woman to win a Nobel prize said on Wednesday. The Yemeni ...

Çorman says that no foreign power should interfere in Yemen's internal affairs. (YT archive photo by Amira Nasser) The Turkish Ambassador to Yemen, Fazli Çorman, previously served in Greece, Oman, Japan and Canada. Upon his assignment to Yemen, he ...

18:20, — Politics The VII Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies took place in Mongolia's capital Ulan-Bator on 27-29 April. More than 1200 delegates from 104 countries of the world participated in the conference. Among them there ...

Interim President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi of Yemen hopes to rebuild his government by purging remnants of the Saleh family that ruled the country more than 30 years. Among those remnants of Saleh family are high-ranking army generals who have ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS This column was supposed to explore my impressions of the Arab Spring after several months at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. I had searched my memory when news of the Boston Marathon explosions broke. And although no one knows ...

Mary Nazzal-Batayneh, Founder of Landmark Hotels in Jordan and Palestine, has been honoured as one of 200 Young Global Leaders through the World Economic Forum for 2013. Along with her fellow classmates, Mary Nazzal-Batayneh has been selected from a ...

It is characteristic of the American condition that we want to save the world. This may be seen economically, politically, in terms of human rights, consumption of resources, education or healthcare - any way one chooses. Like the missionaries that ...

It occurred to me recently that most of the people I've been gathering wisdom and inspiration from are women. In the past, I've often read quotes from my favorite guys -- you know, Winston Churchill, Gandhi, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, the ...