Dr. Haytham Mouzahem

Head of Lebanon’s Islamic Group opposes any intervention in Syria By Haytham Mouzahem In an interview with Al-Monitor, Azzam al-Ayoubi, head of the political bureau of the Islamic Group in Lebanon, said that his party has no official ties with Hezbollah and revealed that Saudi Arabia had assured his organization that it would not be included on its expanded terrorism list. Read more:  http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/lebanon-islamic-group-hezbollah-saudi-arabia.html#ixzz31bZQ7cUW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAm90n18dCI Interview with Dr Haytham Mouzahem

By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem This month, South Yemen witnessed deadly clashes between Yemeni troops and secessionist militants. On Friday January 17, the southern militants ambushed a military vehicle, killing two soldiers and wounding four others in the town of Daleh, 280 kilometers south of the capital. The Southern Movement that calls for secession of South Yemen has accused the army of bombing residential areas and a hospital. These developments indicate a new phase of the Southern Movement for independence, turning from a civil protest and strike to a military resistance against “Northern occupation.” Ali Salim al-Beidh, who was the president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist Party that ruled from 1986 to 1990, signed a unity agreement with the Yemen Arab Republic’s (North Yemen) President Ali Abdullah Saleh, establishing the Republic of Yemen on May 22, 1990. The Atlantic Post Middle East Analyst me...

http://english.sahartv.ir/video/spotlight-middle-east-24102013-809 Spotlight Middle East- 24-10-2013 "The Change of Tone" A Syrian solution is the only way to Syrian crisis. This is what President Assad announced in a televised interview. Yet foreign countries insist on interfering. The US maybe withdraws from launching strike against the Syrian regime but does this mean that the US will stop interfering in the Syrian unrest. Could the change of tone be a change of position, are the clashes among insurgents and army groups functioning in Syria the reason for the US to call for a political solution or is it an agreement done between US and Russia to end the crisis? This and a lot more is discussed in this version of Spotlight Middle East with the Journalist and political analyst, Dr. Haytham Mouzahem.

 By Dr Haytham Mouzahem "God taught us how to converse with all people. There are no sanctities when it comes to dialogue. God Almighty himself spoke to the devil. Are there people like the devil? Also, the Quran is a book of dialogue with polytheists about the unity of God, and with infidels about the existence of God and the prophecy of Muhammad." This is how the late Lebanese Shiite cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah responded when asked about the increased talk of interfaith dialogue in the 1990s. The occasion to talk about the late Fadlallah today, and about his call for dialogue with the "Other" — especially with other Christian and Islamic sects — is an initiative launched by his son, the scholar Sayyed Ali Fadlallah. The latter established the "Religions and Cultures Forum for Development and Dialogue," in which 50 different personalities participated, including Muslim and Christian clerics and intellectuals from Lebanon and other ...

By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem   Professor Radwan Al-Sayed is professor of Islamic studies at the Lebanese University and a current member of the political bureau of Lebanon’s Future Party. Professor al-Sayed spoke exclusively with The Atlantic Post about the rise of “Jihadi Salafism,” a movement and ideology used to describe the beliefs of Salafi Muslims who became interested in violent jihads – meaning “struggles” or “holy wars” – in the mid-1990s. The Salafi phenomenon, explained al-Sayed, was born in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Radical Salafis first declared jihad against non-Muslim countries before focusing their efforts increasingly on Muslim countries. The rise of Jihadi Salafism led to an insurrection by radical figureheads, including Juhayman al-Otaybi, whose 1979 movement against Saudi leadership eventually led to his three-week takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. Al-Otaybi claimed that the royal al-Saud family had lost its legitimacy...

By Justin Salhani BEIRUT, Lebanon – Political differences have prevented Lebanon from forming a new government, six months after the last one collapsed, as opposing political factions await new developments in the war in Syria. A cabinet could however be formed by later this month, according to a political source. “There is not any deal as of now [to form a government],” said Mohamad Machnouk, a political analyst who has been tipped by local media as a possible ministerial appointee. He did however say that a government could be assembled “after Eid [al-Adha] on the 20th, but that’s only an estimation.” When Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned late last March he brought the government down with him. A political agreement brought forward Tamam Salam, son of former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, to take over the position of Prime Minister. The Prime Minister’s job is to form a government by appointing ministers to his cabinet. However, Lebanon’s multitude of political parties ...

By:  Haytham Mouzahem for Al-Monitor   Posted on  May 27 . Ali Salim al-Beidh, who was born in 1939, was the president of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist Party that ruled from 1986 to 1990. It was Beidh who signed a unity agreement with the Yemen Arab Republic's (North Yemen) President Ali Abdullah Saleh, establishing the Republic of Yemen on May 22, 1990. On May 21, 1994, a war broke out between the two sides and ended on July 7 of the same year with the defeat of the south, as northern forces took control. On May 21, 2009, responding to calls from the  Peaceful Southern Movement , Beidh announced his desire for a split between the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, which he represented given that he was president when the unity agreement was signed, and the Yemen Arab Republic.  Al-Monitor's  correspondent met with Beidh in his office in Beirut, and asked him about his...

Mohammed Nasser Al-Bakhiti, representative of Ansarullah (the Houthis’ movement) to the National Dialogue talks, discusses his party’s vision for Yemen in an exclusive telephone interview with Al-Monitor. Read more:  http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/yemen-houthi-dialogue.html#ixzz2TpK3fMtW

The Crisis of Kashmir: Setting The Terms For A Solution By Haytham Mouzahem Dr. Ayyub Thakur is the president of the World Kashmir Freedom Movement, an organization that is responsible for coordinating at the international level for the right of self-determination for the people of Kashmir. According to Thakur, the Kashmiris are guaranteed this right under U.N. Resolutions 38 (1948), 47 (1948), 51 (1948), 80 (1950), 91 (1950), 96 (1951), 98 (1952), 122 (1957), 123 (1957), 215 (1965), and 307 (1971). “We use all peaceful and legal means for achieving our objective. At the same time, we are trying to mobilize the international community diplomatically to take note of the human rights violations in occupied Kashmir and to facilitate relief for the victims of oppression in the occupied land and for a peaceful resolution to the conflict,” says Thakur, who was interviewed by Haytham Mouzahem and Ksenija Svalina for EWR. Following is the interview: EWR: Can you give us a brief b...

Interview With Gerard Russell: “We Are Not About The Business of Imposing Leaders.” September 24, 2002 Editor’s Note: In an exclusive interview in Arabic from Al Mustaqbal newspaper and in English for EWR Gerard Russell, Britain’s Head of Media and Outreach Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responded to a range of questions from reporters Haytham Mouzahem and Ksenija Svalina on the British and European perspectives on the Middle East peace process as well as on reports that the U.S. has plans to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The interview took place on July 4th. It has been edited by EWR for length and style. Al Mustaqbal: We noticed that the British foreign affairs minister’s point man on the Middle East, Mike O’Brien, during his visit to Ramallah and Israel on July 3rd, talked about the suffering of the Israelis but he didn’t mention the suffering of the Palestinian victims in Jenin, for instance, or other Palestinian cities. How do you qualify this unfair stat...