Arab Spring

While predictably blaming Israel, Tehran forcibly suppresses its own homegrown Arab national movements. BDS, where are you?

Roni Bialer
Sept. 10 2013 12:00AM

A sovereign Kurdish state in the Middle East could act as a bulwark against regional chaos and as a rare ally of the West.

Jonathan Spyer
Sept. 10 2013 12:00AM

In his 1958 Algerian Chronicles, now translated into English, Albert Camus foresaw the limits of anti-colonialism and the danger of a new Islamic imperialism.

Paul Berman
Aug. 14 2013 12:00AM

The world’s most populous Muslim country has made the transition from authoritarianism to democracy in little over a decade. Can it serve as a model?

Paul J. Carnegie
Aug. 8 2013 12:00AM

The Obama administration’s embrace of and subsequent dissociation from the Muslim Brotherhood has cost it the respect of Islamists, moderates, and secularists alike.

Aug. 5 2013 12:00AM

Although relatively liberal and secular, Tunisia is caught between “moderate” Islamists and violent Salafist terrorists who have set fire to an American school and sworn. . .

Michael J. Totten
July 31 2013 12:00AM

Planned cuts to Israel’s heavy armaments reflect not only budgetary constraints but the increasing irrelevance of conventional enemy forces.

July 17 2013 12:00AM

What if the “Arab Spring” was not a demand for democracy or Islam but instead for free enterprise?

Hernando de Soto
July 12 2013 12:00AM

No hard evidence exists that a friendlier American policy has changed Arab views of the United States for the better.

Marc Lynch
June 26 2013 12:00AM

Last week, more than 1,200 rockets and mortar rounds and rockets fell on Lebanon's second-largest city, killing dozens. So far, no one is admitting that. . .

Michael J. Totten
June 4 2013 12:10AM