The latest flare-up of fighting on the Gaza-Israel front has generated the usual round of statements and bravado on both sides, but among the predictability...
The rapid developments in recent days in the world of the Syrian groups fighting to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad will be a game-changer if...
With the tremendous vitality, impressive democracy, and busloads of inanity of the American presidential elections behind us now, the people and government of...
There are few things in life as exhilarating as countries developing into constitutional democracies. I have spent the past eight weeks delving into this...
A famous American coloring shampoo advertisement years ago used the effective slogan, referring to whether or not the woman in the ad dyed her hair,...
Kuwait has always been one of the most enigmatic Arab countries in the wealthy oil-producing region of the Gulf, with its combination of enormous wealth and...
Two very different ways for the United States to deal with Arabs and Israelis were on show last week in the United States. The contrast was stunning between...
Following events in Lebanon from the United States, as I have done during the past week, leaves one with the impression that most media in the U.S. are eager...
There are many ways in which one can analyze the current transformations across parts of the Arab world in the wave of populist revolutions that overthrew...
Sometimes things happen so slowly that the casual observer misses them, and one such occurrence is the slow evolution in the United States’ position in...
It has been almost 22 months now since the Arab uprisings erupted in rural Tunisia, triggering dramatic events and structural changes across much of the Arab...
The past month, during which I have had the opportunity to interact with thousands of Americans across the United States, has also been one of the most...
American foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia is bad enough on its own credentials. But when it is subjected to the pulls and pushes of a...
Try as they might, American and Israeli politicians and their herds of followers and lobbyists in the United States cannot seem to shake off the Palestine...
I had the pleasure this week of mingling with historians at a conference at Missouri State University. It was co-sponsored by Drury University and the...
It is always instructive but also irritating to be in the United States when tumultuous events occur around the Middle East or the wider Arab-Asian region...
So many different things have happened across the Middle East and in Arab-Israeli-Iranian-American relations this week that it is hard to know where to start...
As the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks against the United States approached, I noticed that the matter was not discussed very much by Americans I...
When God, Jerusalem, the Arab-Israeli conflict and American domestic politics come together, the result usually reconfirms established dynamics in three...
When one of the world’s most respected moral leaders speaks about one of modern history’s greatest crimes, we are summoned to pay attention and...
Two major events took place this week that garnered much attention round the world: the Republican Party convention in Tampa, Florida, that officially...
The Arab uprisings and revolutions under way across our region have always been about three related dimensions of the past, present and future: to remove the...
Mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square and street battles in Syria form the dramatic heart of the uprisings and revolutions that define many Arab lands these...
We may be quietly witnessing these days an important change in Middle Eastern history. The calm, rational human emphasis on ethical behavior and the quest for...
Most observers saw the heightened tensions in Lebanon during the past week largely as a result of the spillover of the Syrian conflict into Lebanon. Others...