While a series of really serious new dangers such as ISIS atrocities, the wars in Yemen, Syria and Libya, fighting in and near Lebanon, Iranian-Arab tensions,...
During a short visit to Washington, D.C., this week and conversations with friends and colleagues across the United States, I noticed a new strain of...
The last-minute agreement to form a right-of-center government in Israel headed by the Likud Party’s Benjamin Netanyahu is neither surprising nor shocking....
It is tempting but difficult to identify a single dynamic at the level of state and society that explains the many different conflicts across the Arab world....
What happens when chronic violence and brutal aggression go unchecked for decades on end? We see an example of this in the release this week of the findings...
What should we make of these developments related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that occurred Thursday? Someone in Gaza fired a projectile at southern...
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes to grasp how they see the world is the best way to understand their behavior. I have been discussing conditions...
If there is one reason above all others that helps explain the many situations of armed conflict, political violence and state collapse across the Arab world,...
The current visit to Washington by Iraqi premier Haider al-Abadi comes at a decisive moment for his country and the entire region. Any policy agreements...
So here is this week’s brainteaser about the endearing world of American foreign policy in the Middle East. What should we make of the juxtaposition of three...
The consummation of a full, multidecade agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany),...
The agreed parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program that were reached Thursday between the Islamic Republic and the five...
Analysts and ideologues will actively and inconclusively long debate the actual reasons and possible consequences of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, until the...
The latest war in the Middle East, the Saudi Arabian-led assault on Yemen to prevent the Houthi movement from taking full control of the country, has...
What should Israel, the Palestinians and the world make of the statement by White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough that the United States expects the next...
We should keep our eyes on one arena and two actors in any serious assessment of the repercussions of the national election in Israel this week that resulted...
When historians look back on the Middle East decades from now, they might find that trends in the region after 2015 were determined by the outcome of four...
Syria has always been much more than its geography, whether in the past or in modern times. Half a century ago Syria was called “the throbbing heart of...
The contentious diplomatic drama of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress last week has now expanded into political...
The recommendation by the Palestine Liberation Organization Central Council (PLO-CC) this week to suspend the two-decades-old security coordination with...
The intense debate taking place across the world in recent months about the precise nature of and motivating forces behind ISIS is impressive and useful, but...
The controversy over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress next week has generated intense reactions from Israelis and...
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s suggestion that our region needs a joint Arab military force to deal with escalating threats from armed factions in...
It is really difficult to know if this week’s three-day summit on countering violent extremism that took place at the White House and the U.S. State...
If I read one more article or hear one more speech by a Western politician telling us that we are experiencing a war within Islam between radicals and...