CHICAGO: Time is not on the side of peacemakers in the Middle East.
Even relentless optimists are giving up. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become increasingly overshadowed and orchestrated on both sides by extreme and uncompromising (...)
A fundamental question faces those seeking to calm the latest round of conflict in the Palestinian territories. How is it possible for Hamas to emerge as a powerful political force at a time when regional states and the international community are (...)
Abdelkareem Nabil Suleiman, an Egyptian college student and blogger, will be sentenced on February 22 in Cairo. His alleged crime is expressing his own personal opinion on issues of education, women's rights, and government reform. As punishment, he (...)
Many of the Arab nations have been blessed historically with oil and natural gas, which became the dominant engines of economic change in the last century. That is the good news. The bad news is that oil and natural gas are the sole economic (...)