Only men will be allowed to participate in the vote for the municipal councils. Women are clearly not considered mentally capable of making such choices.

A visit to the Gulf and the Levant over the last couple of weeks reminded me of the other gulf, the one between opposite ends of the Middle East.

Editors of the station’s English-language website have laid down the law: Al Jazeera’s staff is henceforth not allowed to describe US-led military "presence" in Iraq as occupation.

Two bodies had been discovered in Iraq: one of a beheaded man, the other of a woman who had been shot dead.

Israel’s typically violent attack has been given an unbelievably arrogant code name: “Operation Days of Penitence.”