Excluding a fifth of Israel’s citizens from their political calculations is not worthy of being called the left. The…
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Even before a new American president is inaugurated, some critics are hyperventilating and making sweeping statements about the new administration…
Researcher Dr. Yossi Ziv has researched Ethiopian Judaism and found an amazing discovery: Ethiopian Jews’ customs and traditions extremely similar…
With the fall of eastern Aleppo to the forces backing Bashar Al Assad now looking imminent, what happens next…
We live in a deeply politicized and polarized world. This is a place where saying that “all lives matter” is…
Yes, Israel is popular right now, but most of its new friendships are based on assessments of common interest, and…
Religious freedom is in crisis around the world. From violent Islamic extremists committing genocide across the Middle East (and inspiring…
Islam Has Never Denied the Jewish Connection to Jerusalem. On the contrary, anywhere you look in early Islamic literature, if…
London: Ever since Bilawal Bhutto Zardari led PPP delegation to APC he has been in the news. Most positive comments…
There were of course people who might have used some nasty words about Shimon Peres, who passed away at the…
The campaign of Bernie Sanders to become the Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, was…
Among the victims of the war in Syria during the past five years has been the moral compass of western…
Remarks at 2016 Exeter Gulf Conference This book project on Saudi public diplomacy using primarily the kingdom’s financial muscle…
Three leading right-wing figures from the 20th century in Turkey: Former Welfare Party head Necmettin Erbakan (L), former Justice Party…
Lebanon’s recent municipal elections had more of a national dimension to them than usual. Because parliamentary elections have been postponed…
By all appearances, the Arab world today looks awash in extremism, but the prominence of violent and regressive elements is,…
A girl looks through a fence at a camp for migrants and refugees near the Greek village of Idomeni not…
As long as Syrian civilians are on the bullseye, nothing will be accomplished at peace talks. Speaking to the BBC…
Stephen Sestanovich, a professor at Columbia University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of “Maximalist:…
Nadine Al-Budair made three-minute speech on Saudi Arabian news show Told fellow Muslims to admit that terrorists are not a…
Spain, or at least the Spain of Islamic conquest and primacy, Al-Andalus, looms large in the Islamist psyche, particularly so…
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” was my favorite novel, and its hero, Robert Jordan, my literary idol. Like him, Delmer…
Sulaimaniya, Iraq — As one could see from President Obama’s recentinterview in The Atlantic, he pretty much hates all the…
Israeli Druze wave their community’s flags during a demonstration on June 14, 2015, in reaction to a shoot-out in northwest…
Forbes Putin’s regime is less stable than meets the eye, and Russia’s future remains uncertain. On March 14, as peace…
Liberal Saudi journalist Nadine Al-Budair, who lives in Dubai, penned an article in the Kuwaiti dailyAl-Rai in which she wondered…
As the election process and continued regional aggression make clear, the regime won’t change what it’s doing at home or…
Icon of the “21 New Martyrs of Libya” by Egyptian-American artist Tony Rezk The Islamic State (ISIS) and its former…
ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at…
By George Soroka In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington memorably bemoaned that, whereas in the West there has historically…
On January 25-27, 2016, several hundred Muslim religious leaders from throughout the world and fifty non-Muslim observers met in the…
While the Experts Assembly elected this month may be formally tasked with appointing the elderly Khamenei’s successor, the real decision…
By Andrew Roth MOSCOW — Four months after launching airstrikes in Syria, the Kremlin is confident that Moscow’s largest overseas…
By MOHAMMED ALAA GHANEMFEB. 3, 2016 AS the fraught Syria peace talks inch forward in Geneva, the United States finds…
When I first visited Saudi Arabia in early 1994, I was amused to see that its government was busily promoting…
Some might say that the spirit of the modern age, at least in the developed West, is all about an…
By taking an overcautious approach in Syria, the president has highlighted America’s failure to have an open discussion about the…
Written more than two thousand years ago, texts by ancient Greeks still have a major impact on the modern militaries…
U.S. officials concerned that Iran-Saudi conflict could undermine broader efforts in Middle East By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON—The sudden upheaval that shattered…
A real national commonwealth demands an authentic national narrative that recognizes the multiplicity of cultural, religious, and social foundations, but…
On Sunday evening, December 6, President Barack Obama attempted to assure Americans that he is applying the right array of…
‘Bare, Naked, Nude,’ a new exhibition recently opened at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, includes academic studies of 44 artists from different…
With the growth of the Islamic State have come voices for the United States and Western countries to engage with…
Lifelong language study can change a person. It enriches one’s life, especially if it is a relatively difficult language requiring…
Dozens of nuclear weapons are just miles from where Ankara shot down jet Geoff Wilson Turkey’s downing of a Russian…
Eldad Beck Waleed al-Husseini sat in Palestinian jail after daring to criticize radicals – but he says he is also…
William Armstrong – william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr Turkey’s newly elected government has given signals that it may move to address the grievances of…
Pope Benedict XVI lectured on faith and reason at the University of Regensburg in Germany in this Sept. 12, 2006,…
News about Syria has quickly replaced news about Ukraine in the Russian media, thanks to the Kremlin’s propaganda. “This…
Those who really love this land understand that it belongs to two peoples. Now, before it is too late, what…