The Arab rebellions which began in December 2011 pressured the monarchies to offer reforms and changes. Although the monarchies have…
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This weekend, Egypt’s Islamist president Muhammad Morsi unilaterally amended the interim constitution that had been approved by 77 percent of…
Two of Lebanon’s most prominent shiite clerics, Seyyed Mohammed Hassan el Amin and Seyyed Hani Fahs, both from South Lebanon,…
The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are united in their belief in God and the Prophet Muhammad and are bound together…
By supporting the massacres in Syria over the past sixteen months, Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah engendered the hatred of millions…
Time has come to say these things loud and clear: I do not have the slightest shred of sympathy for…
Based on the information we have, I think the picture is as follows: July 18: bomb explosion in Damascus July…
Academics, intellectuals, science, arts and letters professionals, we support Tunisian academics committed to the defense of academic freedoms in their…
Abu Ibrahim is a big bear of a man in his early forties. He wears flip-flops and a T-shirt and…
The Nobel Prize for Peace Laureate Ms. Tawakkol Karman calls upon the Yemeni President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi to speed…
Saudi Arabia is bringing back its most talented operator to manage the Arab Spring. But can Bandar stem the rot…
The impressive electoral performance of nominally liberal parties in Libya is being widely portrayed as a setback to Islamist political…
Given the situation along the border and the risk of a Kurdish insurgency, a unilateral Turkish foray into Syria would…
An explosion occurred last Wednesday in the National Security Headquarters in Damascus, killing some pillars of the Syrian regime including…
Earlier today, on the 18th anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a…
Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, Washington has repeatedly demanded that President Bashar al-Assad desist from employing the most…
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Lebanese Intelligence sources said that the (presumably Israeli) surveillance drone which had hit ground near the village…
Sometimes the use of the oriental imagination is needed like air to breathe. I have often argued that attributing oriental…
Violence in eastern Saudi Arabia and continuing tension in Bahrain are reminders that Gulf oil exports face other threats besides…
The Tlass family were once acolytes of the Assad dynasty, but as the regime crackdown targeted their fellow Sunni clansmen,…
Syria’s descent into ever-greater violence steepened yesterday. Driven by the regime’s desperate attempt to stay in power, an already ugly…
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…
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…
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…