By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Celebrity doesn’t always travel well. The conditions it depends upon can be too local, too conditional. Try explaining Kim Kardashian to...
by CONNOR SIMPSON Violence continued in Syria on Thursday despite the arrival of the Arab League's monitors, and now the appointed leader of the...
Israeli Girl, 8, at Center of Tension Over Religious Extremism By ISABEL KERSHNER BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — The latest battleground in . Israel’s...
by Hillel Ofek Contemporary Islam is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project. But it is heir to a legendary “Golden...
By Philippe Conde The parliamentary elections that took place in Russia on 4 December 2011 usher in a new era for the post-Soviet political...
Jan-Werner Müller Paul Krugman recently wondered whether it was possible to be “both terrified and bored” by the Eurozone crisis. It is indeed terrifying:...
IN THE year of our Lord 1816 two grand old men of the American Revolution corresponded eagerly about the work they had recently done,...
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By Kori Schake It seems odd that President Obama is willing to apologize for American actions in so many instances, but not for the...
by Nour Samaha Beirut, Lebanon - The confirmation by officials in the United States of the exposure of their CIA informants in Lebanon has...
by Yoel Guzansky, Benedetta Berti Many pundits and government officials have praised the “Arab Spring” as a prelude to the rise of a new...
Trevor Thrall Last week, the United States announced the creation of Virtual Embassy Tehran [3], an informational web site aimed at the Iranian public....
By Bobby Ghosh If the Arab Spring was seeded by a liberal insurrection, the Arab Fall has brought a rich harvest for Political Islam....
IS THE Arab spring turning into bleak midwinter? Earlier this year the revolutions sweeping through the region seemed encouragingly modern and secular. Indeed, the...
By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — It is the other Guantánamo, an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back...
Prince Turki Al-Faisal on Monday called on Gulf states to make the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) a powerful regional bloc with a unified...
By Marc Lynch "I think the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] should govern by coalition that includes the people from secular parties and the Copts."...
Burhan Ghalioun, the leader of the so-called Syrian National Council, spoke with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday at his home in south Paris. His...
by İHSAN DAĞI Changes in the Middle East that were triggered last year by the Tunisian revolution are continuing to shake the region. The...
By Tarek Amara TUNIS | Sat Dec 3, 2011 8:31am EST (Reuters) - Thousands of Tunisian Islamists and secularists staged parallel protests outside the...
[read Court's Opinion] As support builds to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, organizer David Cobb returned to Vermont last week to discuss pending state...
BY GLENN GREENWALD The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it....
by Kenan Malik In the warped mind of Anders Breivik, his murderous rampages in Oslo and Utoya earlier this year were the first shots...
