Now it will do anything to keep them out.

Minouche Shafik was twice a victim of aggrieved nationalism.

Remembering a scholar, diplomat, and public intellectual.

Alois Brunner in Damascus.

“The Palestinians are useful to the Arab states as they are.”

First the PLO, and then Hizballah, destabilized the country to fight Israel.

He opposed Palestinian independence.

He made anti-Zionism the mainstay of Middle Eastern politics.

The king is dead. Does it matter?

A rabbi’s reflections.

With little evidence, a new book blames war-mongering generals on both sides.

Setting the record straight.

How Nazi and Islamist influence shaped the Egyptian leader.

And might have been a double agent.