Hopeful but not audacious enough! This seems to sum up US President Barack Obama’s much vaunted speech to the Muslim world. Comments and analysis from the Arab street as reflected on the screens of al-Jazeera, CNN and BBC suggest that while Obama’s message is generally welcome, skepticism abounds…

Dining with terrorists Meetings with the world's most wanted militants By Phil Rees Picador ISBN 0330438468 Explaining the “War against Terrorism”, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has constantly warned: ‘the single greatest threat to peace and freedom in our time is terrorism’. And in…

Ali A Mazrui debating the African condition An annotated and select thematic bibliography, 1962-2003 Compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath Published by Africa Institute of South Africa & New Dawn Press, Inc. ISBN 1 932705 37 6  A year ago, in a citation on Ali A Mazrui’s nomination as 100  …