By Ghassan Karam, Special to Ya Libnan It was seventy five years ago that Khalil Gibran's "The Garden of the Prophet" was published posthumously.

Beirut - For three years, Sunni Muslims have dominated Lebanon's government. Now they are bitter and fearful after Hezbollah's seizure of parts of Beirut in street gunbattles — an ominous sign of how the country's latest political crisis has sharply

Doha- Lebanon's feuding political leaders arrived in Doha for Arab-Sponsored talks aimed at ending the ongoing crisis that has driven the nation to the brinks of civil war.

Doha- Lebanon's rival political leaders arrived in Doha for dialogue talks aiming at ending the political crisis that has divided the. The talks are being sponsored by the Arab league

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden slammed Western leaders for taking part in Israel's 60th anniversary of its creation overtop Palestinian land and vowed that Muslims would fight and not give up "one inch of Palestine," in an audio message Friday.

Foreign rescue teams arrived in China's quake-devastated southwest on Friday, laden with specialist equipment to aid the desperate search among the rubble of shattered buildings. A Japanese team began work in Sichuan Province, the first time the Chinese government has