Obituary

Abdullah al-Hamid: Saudi human rights advocate and 'national hero'

Bridging traditions, religion and progressive politics, the scholar's outspoken and articulate calls for reform made him an existential threat for the government in Riyadh

Remembering Rachid Taha, voice of the oppressed and dispossessed

Malia Bouattia

The other John McCain

Malia Bouattia

Do not weep for Bernard Lewis, high priest of war in the Middle East

Peter Oborne

The 89-year-old who threatened the Egyptian regime even in death

Wael Haddara

Jack Shaheen, prominent author combating Arab stereotypes, dies at 81

US Muslim judge died in apparent suicide, police say

America's first woman Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River

Gerald Kaufman, the Zionist who turned on Israel in disgust

In Egypt, thousands mourn at Omar Abdel Rahman's funeral

Blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman dies in US prison facility

Rafsanjani’s death creates fake sense of unity in Iran

Mahan Abedin

Goodbye Sadiq al-Azm, lone Syrian Marxist against the Assad regime

Omair Anas

Fidel Castro's lasting legacy in the Middle East

Qatar's former emir Khalifa dies at 84; three days mourning declared

Shimon Peres: Founder of Israel, architect of the occupation

Former Israel president Peres dies amid adulation and accusation

Egypt bids farewell to Nobel prize-winning chemist

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ahmed Zewail dies at 70

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami dies at 76

Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate, Holocaust survivor dies at 87