The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond.
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
If you are travelling towards the East, you will inevitably move away from the West.
I live between Europe, America and Asia.
Media Asia has great partners in China, Japan and Hollywood.
I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.
FUBU is pretty well licensed out in China and Asia. In America it's a little more of a challenge, obviously, because it's a branded sport.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
