To view the original article, click here.   Irwin Cotler and Maikel Nabil Sanad have never met. They are two very different men in two very different situations. Cotler is an international legal scholar, distinguished member of Canada's parliament, and once served as Minister of Justice. Sanad is a young Egyptian blogger who at this very...

The following article first appeared in The Investigative Fund. To access it, please click HERE. In its December 8 report, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced that Iran was the worst place in the world for journalists in 2011. According to this report, 179 writers, editors, and photojournalists have been imprisoned around the world this year, an increase of 34 from 2010. Iran is at...

The following appeared on Al Jazeera, to view the original, click here.   Is the Arab League Mission Doomed to Fail?     Almost a week has passed since the Arab League observers arrived in Syria. But despite their presence on the ground the bloodshed continues. While opposition activists have been deeply skeptical of the observer mission, the outpouring of demonstrators across...

The following article first appeared in The Wall Street Journal. To access it, please click HERE. If you want a good laugh, read the holiday card sent out by Saudi Ambassador to the United States and public relations genius Adel al-Jubeir. Citing a Quranic verse, he writes "Behold, the angels said: 'O Mary, God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus,...

To view the original, click here. This week I engaged in a public dialogue with former celebrated Soviet dissident and human rights advocate Natan Sharansky, whom I had the privilege of representing during his nine-year imprisonment in the Soviet Union on trumped-up charges of sedition and "anti-Soviet slander and agitation." Sharansky had just come from New York where he received...