Deeming the Palestinian Authority’s recent thoughts of reconciliation with Hamas  helpful or harmful is premature at best. Such a...

Last Monday outside an Egyptian courtroom, families wept and women fainted after a judge passed down a mass death sentence to more than...

Exaggeration serves no purpose when it comes to the Syrian crisis. From horrifying tales of rebel extremists eating hearts of dead men to...

The good news is that the nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the major global powers have so far delivered quite optimistic...

As the Syrian civil war approaches its fourth year, prospects for peace are increasingly dim. Western-led negotiations have proved...

Join the Janus Forum on Thursday April 24th as Noam Chomsky, an outspoken critic of US and Israel foreign policy, and Dennis Ross, a...

Russia’s annexation of Crimea, unrest in Ukraine and subsequent narratives of a “New Cold War” bring new hopes and worries to leaders in...

Writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a daunting task. Beyond the impassioned and divisive nature of the topic, the clash...

In the space of less than a generation, China has transformed itself from a nation almost completely cut off from the international...

Three years ago, no one would have believed that Egypt would soon witness another military leader holding office. After weeks of...

Turbulent by Shirin Neshat. Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons License. Turbulent is the first short film of a trilogy created by...

We live in troubling times. Protests, wars, coups, government corruption, crime and acts of terrorism are just some examples of the...

It has been over three years since the euphoria of Egypt’s Arab Spring. Hosni Mubarak’s rapid deposition and the groundswell of popular...

Two weeks ago I published a controversial statement that the Lebanese-Syrian hostage exchange signaled the end of the Syrian civil war....

As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, China is poised to act as a stabilizing force in the region, reaping the benefits of...

For years, Iran and Western powers have had a relationship marked by distrust, suspicion and open animosity. The diplomatic gridlock...

There are few things in the world as universal as soccer. In terms of international reach, other sports pale in comparison. The beautiful...

As noted by tenacious Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi in his 2010 book Griftopia (and reported here in the Atlantic), in 2008 the city...

It is a question that has long been asked in America, particularly after the handling of firms after the 2008 crisis, and most pressingly...

Almost every time a new leader is appointed in an authoritarian state, the question arises: will they represent change or a continuation...