Far from being absurd aberrations to be dismissed, such accounts… Continue reading
What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a few weeks go by without a church being destroyed… Continue reading
Christians are fleeing the Middle East and Western Christians are indifferent… Continue reading
An Australian Muslim was acquitted of attempting to kill or grievously injure a police officer, based in part on the judge’s decision that… Continue reading
I’m standing on the edge of the Roman Forum, by the Arch of Titus. This is the marble structure built by… Continue reading
In early 1959, a small West German intelligence operation stumbled over a sensational find: U.S. collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
The September 12-16 tour of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya has occasioned the question what role… Continue reading
Turkey is aspiring to broaden its horizons to include not just Europe but the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in its strategic… Continue reading
How is Egypt’s revolution different from a real democratic revolution, as in Eastern Europe… Continue reading
Ten years after September 11, 2001, when the very phrase “war on terrorism” is barred from U.S. government usage by the president… Continue reading
The hard-line Islamist group al-Shabaab is imposing Islamic Law on the outskirts of Mogadishu and across Somalia… Continue reading
Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading
It seems to be a secret mainly to the White House and most of the Western mass media that Turkey is being turned into a police state… Continue reading
The resignations on July 29, 2011, of the Turkish chief of staff and all three force commanders are without precedent in… Continue reading
A few hours ago I wrote that the Egyptian military government reportedly told Israel that a major Israeli offensive… Continue reading
It would not matter much if a small fringe of extremists believed this, but the size of that group will be far larger… Continue reading
In a real sense, there was more intellectual freedom in the Arabic-speaking world in 1930 or 1940 then there is today… Continue reading
As NATO jets bombed the military positions of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the watching rebels cheered… Continue reading
Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern… Continue reading
This isn’t just another terrorist attack — it’s a major escalation, a new phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict in two ways… Continue reading
With the Turkish lira in free-fall, Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks less like a prospective Ottoman caliph than a garden-variety Third World strongman… Continue reading
President Barack Obama informs us, as the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, that his biggest fear is not radical Islamist terrorism… Continue reading
Fifteen “liberal” groups have formed The Egyptian Bloc to contest the parliament elections that might be held in November… Continue reading
A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the… Continue reading
Cairo recently hosted a conference in support of terrorism. It was attended by Palestinian and Shi’ite terrorist organizations… Continue reading
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