Prepare for the Great Arab Unraveling
Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist for The New Yorker magazine, has sparked fresh…
The US and Islam: a widening rift
It is no surprise that at the annual meeting of the US-Islamic…
It works for North Korea; why not Iran?
The very sensible six-nation agreement reached with North Korea earlier this week…
Where to, after the Mecca agreement?
The most significant thing about the national unity government agreement signed Thursday…
Measuring the importance of being Arab
The one photograph that hangs in my office is that of the…
Beware of US gamblers playing with Iran
Regardless of whether the United States' current military surge and slight shift…
Injecting sense into the terrorism debate
The United States as a whole - citizens, government, media and academia…
Enough abuse of the streets in Lebanon
Just as it was half a century ago, Lebanon is once again…
The new cold war in Beirut and Palestine
Lebanon and Palestine are the most dramatic examples of the new ideological…
Arab civil society thrives in moveable conferences
In the span of five days last week, I had the pleasure…