by J Street U Brown On the heels of President Obama’s first trip to Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry embarked on a ten-day visit to...

The opposition in Syria has reached a crossroads. Contrary to popular belief (and the depressing coverage favored by most Western media),...

Two years ago, chaos broke loose when Syrian protesters began demonstrating their deep discontent with President Bashar al-Assad’s rule....

In an interesting article that dates back to 1996, Ahmed Mansour, a graduate of Al-Azhar University, provides a detailed analysis of the...

There are times (for instance, when one is boarding a plane in Sicily and dreading the cold rain that will undoubtedly great her at the...

Having a rough semester? Providence weather got you down? Worried about job prospects, the dire state of your love life, your thesis...

In discussing the Middle East, media outlets and political pundits alike can’t seem to avoid lame catchphrases, which reduce the complex...

A response to “Nuclear Iran, Safer World” by Omar Ben Halim by Katherine Long While I agree with Mr. Omar Ben Halim that a nuclear Iran...

Uranium. Campaign checks. Oil. What’s really going on in Mali. France is at war. At the time of writing, 4,000 French soldiers are...

In my last article, I concluded that the Egyptian Preamble does not address the problem of sovereign immunity. I did not explain,...

It is no secret that revolution, successful or otherwise, rarely produces results as glorious as initially imagined. For example, the...

For the next few weeks, I am planning to be writing on the Egyptian Constitution. Today, I begin with the starting words of the Preamble....

It seems absurd to claim that any country in a region as unstable as the Middle East/North Africa could be stagnant – but if any of them...

In reading the New York Times yesterday, it struck me that following the news about Syria is becoming almost unbearably frustrating. More...

As a columnist who writes exclusively on MENA (Middle East/North Africa), I’m just going to state the obvious: I don’t usually end up...

Earlier this week, President Obama officially recognized the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the...

The ceasefire established Wednesday between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas (which controls the Gaza Strip) ended a week of rocket...

I was hoping to stop writing on austerity and switch to nationalism and the extreme right in Europe. However, France’s recognition of the...

When we think about the so-called “Arab Spring,” which countries come to mind? Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen are the first: the ones...

Though the news out of the Middle East last week was dominated by the shocking car bombing in Beirut, the region also witnessed the...