Obama Makes His Case on Iran Nuclear Deal
Friedman Interviews Obama: The Strengths of the Iran Deal In a conversation with Thomas L.…
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Iran Deal Leaves U.S. With Tough Questions
The deal with Iran is finally done. Given the stakes, it should be scrutinized. It…
Keeping Iran’s Feet to the Fire
Even with a deal now signed, the Obama administration still has many tools for countering…
Assessing the Joint Arab Defense Force and Operation Decisive Storm: a Turkish perspective
The ongoing operations in Yemen – diplomatically supported by the Erdoğan government – and prospects…
Missiles and the Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
Although Iran’s missile arsenal is conventionally armed, credible reports of links with its nuclear program…
Iranian nuclear deal set to make hardline Revolutionary Guards richer
As Western sanctions began to bite, Iranian government rewarded IRGC with huge contracts in oil…
Laurent Fabius: “We should not have to choose between a dictator and terrorists”
Laurent Fabius, at Elysee Palace, 25 of June 2015. © Charles Platiau / Reuters Interview…
The Coalition as Air Force for the Kurdish YPG in Syria
The international coalition members conducting airstrikes in Syria include the United States, Bahrain, Canada, Jordan,…
Kuwait Pavillion in the Milan Expo: Energy for Life
From outside the pavilion looks like the white sails of a lost sailing ship: it…
Turkey in the Middle Eastern ‘swamp’
An Ottoman heliograph section in the Charge at Huj in 1917, during the Sinai and…
Iran’s Global Image Mostly Negative
Israel, Arab States Share Unfavorable View of Middle East Neighbor By Hani Zainulbhai and Richard…
The payoff for Iran
As the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States enter their final stages, one…
Jordan’s Economy Surprises
Solid economic growth, low inflation, and comfortable international reserves offer a hopeful story line in…
The Bipartisan Statement on Iran Nuclear Negotiations and the Yemen Conflict
An excellent « Public Statement on U.S. Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations » – « Endorsed by…
Public Statement on U.S. Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Endorsed by a Bipartisan Group of American Diplomats, Legislators, Policymakers, and Experts Over the last…
Druze Mount next flashpoint in Syrian conflict: Implications for Israel
Synopsis This month’s killing of 23 Druze clan members by Jabhat Al Nusra jihadists has…
Riyadh Looks to Moscow
Prince Muhammad’s visit to Russia will increase speculation that Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the United…
Al-Qaida ’cut off and ripped apart by Isis’
Ayman al-Zawahiri is isolated, scholars allied to him say. Spencer Ackerman, Shiv Malik, Ali Younes…
Turkey’s tortoise democratic revolution
It was no joke for millions of Turks who queued in front of ballot boxes…
Islamism and the Left
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s…
Samir Kassir: a prince of our disorder
Ten years ago this week, our friend and colleague Samir Kassir was murdered outside his…
Beyond Islamists and Autocrats: Prospects for Political Reform Post Arab Spring
Concern about the political direction of the Middle East has long ago replaced the optimism…
What Turkey’s Election Results Mean
The outcome has dealt a blow to the AKP’s longstanding dominance and Erdogan’s goal…
Saudi Arabia and Israel Share a Common Opposition
http://edge.media.cfr.org/content/publications/media/meetings/2015/20150604Saudi_Arabia_and_Israel.mp4 By DAVID E. SANGERJUNE WASHINGTON — A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi…
The Middle East Has Four Minutes To Act If Iran Fires a Missile
The technology can stop the missile, but politics are getting in the way. By Marcus…
Syria’s Druze are caught in a maelstrom
Analysts have wondered why Syria’s Druze have not joined the uprising against the regime of…
The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050
Why Muslims Are Rising Fastest and the Unaffiliated Are Shrinking as a Share of the…
Anbar First, Mosul Never?
Since regaining Tikrit, the Iraqi government has seemingly listened to Washington’s advice about delaying an…
Why the Saudis just blacklisted two Lebanese militants
The Khobar Towers bombing on June 25, 1996 This week, Saudi Arabia just sanctioned two…
The Last of the Arab Jews
Shaffaf reproduces the following article of The Wall Street Journal as a tribute to the…
Jane’s: Initial Saudi air strikes lacked intensity
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and…
Jean-Pierre Filiu: Daech never stopped progressing
Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor at Science Po (Paris), was asked by the Journal du…
Erdoğan blasts NY Times: ‘Who are you? Know your place’
“Dark Clouds Over Turkey” (full text) Monday 25 May 2015 Hopefully, the Turks shall…
For Al-Baghdadi, Islam is a religion of war, a shrewd message according to Father Samir
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an…
Hezbollah’s Victory in Qalamoun
The group will no doubt continue helping the Assad regime hang on, but the war’s…
Declassified and released al-Qa’ida document mentions Al-Jazeera’s Ahmed Zaidan
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it…
Why the Seymour Hersh story was declined by The New Yorker
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle…
AQAP’s infiltration of Yemen’s Sunni tribes reduces effectiveness of precision airstrikes sustains jihadists’ expansion
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital…
Bashar Assad’s perilous dance with Iran
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali…
Ethnic tensions spill onto Iranian soccer pitches
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent…
Europe and Islam: The Jewish Grand Sanhedrin as example
The main body of the following article was published by Middle East Transparent on April…
Obama Loses the Sunni Arabs
They reject his attempts to reassure them over the Iran nuclear deal. The promise of…
The Saudi Snub
The White House’s bottom line for Camp David is to limit public condemnation of the…
The Most Overlooked Line in Netanyahu’s Address
One of the prime minister’s remarks suggests that a more fundamental dispute may be brewing…
Iran’s Next Supreme Leader and the Nuclear Deal
In all likelihood, Khamenei’s potentially imminent successor will be even more of a hardliner, and…
Apartheid city
Salman Masalha New Arab city will perpetuate inequality We should oppose the construction of a…
Tauran calls for international community to intervene after Christians are burnt alive
The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue speaks to Vatican Radio about the…
How to Muddle Through with Iran
By revealing all the offers that Iran has rejected, Washington could block Tehran’s potential Plan…
Hezbollah’s Message for Israel
Given its recent track record of targeting Israelis, Hezbollah’s decision to take public responsibility for…
Iran Is Forcing Poor Afghans to Fight and Die in Syria
Rebels capture reluctant Afghans in Aleppo Jassem Al Salami Wednesday 22 October 2014 “Come…