Laudable instincts for compassion must be combined with caution.

Recent violence notwithstanding, the misery there is durable.

It’s actually far less stable than we think.

She has a new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.

A familiar story of paralyzing indecision.

“Why do we keep getting this wrong?”

The U.S. has a long history of supporting despotic regimes in the Middle East in the name of stability. They have also been surprised when. . .

On the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the uprising that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, it seems to a casual observer that little has. . .

In Egypt, the prevalence of outlandish conspiracy theories—the latest warns of an imminent Jewish conquest, led by Jon Stewart—points to the improbability of true liberalization.

Israel’s established Arab parties have overwhelmingly lost local elections to independent candidates. Could this hopeful news be replicated on a national level?

Arabs are horrified at the thought that the Syrian civil war could once again redraw the map of the Middle East. Infinitely more worrying. . .

Are Arabs too distracted by the Israel/Palestinian conflict to modernize and liberalize their societies? The suggestion marks a new low in Western apologetics for. . .

In almost all Western countries, political establishments have been caught repeating a motif about the Middle East so wrong-headed that, if they had any shame,. . .