While the world has been preoccupied with the ISIS and its global terrorism threat that emanated from the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, 17 countries that met...
The devastating terror bombs Thursday in a south Beirut high-density residential and commercial area, following the apparent bomb that brought down a Russian...
The dangerous and destructive situation on the ground in Israel-Palestine is painful for both parties, though Palestinians are being killed at a rate seven...
As I travel the world and witness the global quest for Palestinian national rights and a normal life, I become increasingly confident of our eventual success....
The debate about whether ISIS, the Taliban, or Al-Qaeda are expanding or being contained in Arab lands and Afghanistan is important news in many countries,...
Maybe there is something in the water in Vienna that makes people act like adults. Whatever it is, the meetings this week in Vienna Thursday and Friday...
It is useful to recognize that there is not a single United States in action in the Middle East, but several different versions of this powerful country. I...
In an important opinion article published earlier this week in The Wall Street Journal, Henry Kissinger provided a fascinating window into the foreign policy...
If you want to understand events in Israel and Palestine among these two people who are locked in a centurylong battle, you have to understand the importance...
I am astounded by how many people in the United States and abroad look at Russia’s military involvement in Syria and mainly reflect on the erratic U.S. policy...
There is something terribly inaccurate in describing the latest upsurge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians as another upsurge in violence. How many...
Well, well, so it has now come to this in the Arab-Asian-Islamic realm: Americans bomb hospitals in northern Afghanistan by mistake. Russians bomb northern...
Nobody should be surprised that the two oldest and most virulent sources of political tension and nationalist resistance across the Arab world have both...
The two speeches at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week by the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president captured the depressing,...
The bizarre, often make-believe, world of the United States’ fight against dangerous terrorist organizations and militants has suffered a bad few weeks, and...
Several Arab countries these days are having to adapt to the fact that many of their citizens are legitimately angry at their government for a variety of...
The Arab states of the Gulf remain some of the most novel and fascinating developmental experiences anywhere in the world. Few advances have occurred in the...
The Middle East today is in bloody and tragic turmoil for many different reasons. One of them is that the five major powers in the region, like the two global...
A fascinating political face-off this week will see demonstrations organized by the “You Stink” movement in Downtown Beirut publicly challenging the National...
Now that President Barack Obama has secured more than enough votes in the U.S. Senate to assure the implementation of the agreement with Iran on nuclear...
The month of August marked a dramatic moment in modern Lebanese history, when tens of thousands of ordinary citizens broke free from their sectarian political...
Like most public political dramas across the Middle East, the current events in Lebanon revolving around uncollected garbage are really about several...
My affection and respect for my good friend and colleague from the United Arab Emirates with whom I discussed current events in the Middle East over a...
During a delightful lunch in Beirut a few days ago with a good friend and colleague from the UAE during which we discussed a wide range of current...
As has long been the case throughout history, developments in Syria today reflect significant trends in other parts of the Arab world, especially Yemen, Iraq,...