Syria’s descent into ever-greater violence steepened yesterday. Driven by the regime’s desperate attempt to stay in power, an already ugly…
Year: 2012
The other night, I hosted Emre Öktem, an associate professor of international law, on my weekly TV program called “Political…
New Republic One of the more charming aspects of post-Mubarak Egypt is the frequency with which political debate erupts spontaneously…
TRIPOLI, Libya — A coalition led by a Western-educated political scientist appeared on Sunday to be beating its Islamist rivals…
Thursday came news that General Manaf Tlass, a senior commander of Syria’s elite Republican Guard — the troops most directly…
Foreign Affairs In the 18 months since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood has risen swiftly from the…
Prepared Statement of LtCol (ret) Rudolph Atallah Senior Fellow, Michael S. Ansari Africa Center Atlantic Council and Chief Executive Officer,…
WASHINGTON—Major Wall Street and European financial firms are coming under pressure to dump their holdings in Lebanese debt and securities…
The Syrian army is Bashar al-Assad’s main prop — without it, his regime would soon fall. So far, the military…
When Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, was declared the new president of Egypt last week, I felt…
There is a fox in Tahrir Square. Bushy tailed and thickly furred, he claims to hear everything. And this is…
“Syrian weapons are being used – most unfortunately – against our camp, while the rulers of Damascus continue to repeat…
David Fulghum/Washington Evidence is mounting that the U.S. defense community and the Obama administration view 2013 as the likely window…
Few political debates are more divisive than the one over whether a country is in a civil war. When the…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four individuals and three entities involved in laundering the proceeds…
In the stultifying, 100-plus-degree heat of Tahrir Square on Sunday, where tens of thousands gathered to hear the results of…
Before we arrive at the fulfillment of Isaiah’s utopian vision, even in a small way, it is necessary first of…
A first comment on the decisions of Egypt’s highest court of 14 June 2012 On June 14, the Supreme Constitutional…
Washington should bluntly tell the House of Saud that its current system of governance is broken, and that younger princes…
The murderous Ba’ath regime, which pretended to be the standard bearer of Arab nationalism, is the bloody testimony to the…
Sheikh H. Mchaymech stands accused of “collaborating with the Israeli enemy by providing information about Hezbollah to its forces in…
Although many Russian officials are unsure about who exactly committed the recent massacres, the incidents are nevertheless a serious stress…
Eight months after Muammar Qaddafi’s overthrow, journalists seeking wars in Libya have to journey deep into the Sahara and beyond…
POLICY FOCUS 120 | June 2012 Under current conditions, it would be naive to expect Russia to severely curtail its…
The results of the first round of voting in Egypt’s presidential elections has yielded a choice in the second round…
How do libertarians everywhere respond to the so-called Arab Spring? For a political and social movement that coalesces around the…
Andrew Scott Cooper is the author of The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance…
BRITISH defence chiefs have drawn up secret plans to set up safe havens for Syrians fleeing President Assad’s killers. Special…
There are increasing calls for international intervention in Syria after this weekend’s massacre in Houla, where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s…
Let’s set aside for a moment the discourse about human rights and the debate about natural rights, because no salvation…
By Chemi Shalev | May.30, 2012 | 9:50 AM | 30 Former senior U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross confirmed for the…
In the run-up to the first round of Egypt’s presidential elections, which concluded on Thursday, the Muslim Brotherhood’s downfall was…
It is becoming increasingly important to debate the subject of secularism in Turkey, especially at a time when work on…
إن المتابع لعملية الاختطاف والمدقق في حيثياتها لا بد أن يسجّل الملاحظات والمفارقات والتساؤلات الآتية: أولاً: عبرت باصات المسافرين منطقة…
While the Islamic Republic’s soft power fails, the Iranian people’s urge to integrate into world culture and economy is unprecedented.…
The latest clashes in Beirut show that as long as the Syrian conflict persists, Lebanon’s internal security will be increasingly…
The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and…
The story of Benin Kataya is a great sign of the relativity in the practice of freedoms in Lebanon. Now…
The fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in recent days has been intimately related to the conflict in…
The Ilisu Dam project could enter the annals of counterterrorism as history’s first “hydro-victory.” * You may have heard of…
1. The fifth session of Sheikh Hassan Mchaymech’s trial was held on Friday, May 11, 2012. Of note: For the…
The upcoming GCC meeting in Riyadh reflects concern about events in Syria, fear of Iran, and anxieties about Washington’s policies.…
Toward the end of the lengthy debate on Wednesday night between France’s presidential candidates, President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist…
The American commentator Thomas L. Friedman was in Beirut this week and had two interesting things to say about the…
The Hezbollah militia is extending its fiber optic telecommunications network to Beirut’s downtown area under the nose of Lebanese authorities…
The scandal of captagon pills fabricated in Hezbollah religious seminaries (or hawzas) in the city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s eastern…
Chairman Chabot and Ranking Member Ackerman: Thank you for this opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee on the Middle East…
Despite trepidation over Libya’s upcoming elections, they offer the best way to solve the country’s legitimacy crisis, and Washington should…
In “Distant View of a Minaret,” the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a…
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political. In the early…