When will Saudi Arabia Sign Peace with Israel?
Saudi Arabia's new policy, Vision 2030, requires a newer foreign policy on Palestinians
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit
The longer we refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Iran deal, the greater a price we pay
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The End of Arab Nationalism
How the Abraham Accords put the final nail in the coffin of a bad idea.
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The Saudi Evolution
Fouad Ajami had an odd fondness for Saudi Arabia. He was an Americanized, secular Shiite with European sensibilities who, truth be told, had pretty much burned out on the ugliness of the modern Arab world. He...
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Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
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Two Palestinian dreams
The Trump plan is meant to foreclose one and facilitate the other
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BDS Fails to Stop Israeli Artist from Performing Egyptian Songs in Berlin
A Lebanese-based organization that promotes a boycott of the Jewish state failed to stop performances on Saturday and Sunday in Berlin of the Israeli artist Ariel Efraim Ashbel who is celebrating...
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The Six-Day War and the 50-year occupation
Fifty years ago this week, the young state of Israel faced the threat of extermination – a second Jewish Holocaust in a single century. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated candidly...
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Russia Risks a Showdown with Israel Over Hezbollah in Syria
Back in 1967, Moscow shrugged when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran, cutting shipping routes to the Israeli port of Eilat—Israel’s only one in the Red...
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How Barack is like Ike
The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U....
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The Truth About Egypt’s Revolution
The usual account of Egypt’s revolution goes like this: In February 2011, Hosni Mubarak resigned after 18 days...
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New TV Show Highlights Egypt’s Jewish Problem
A new television series is shaking up the lucrative Ramadan viewing season in Egypt. The program – titled “The Jewish Quarter” and set in the late 1940s and early 50s – de...
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When Israel Helped Yemen’s Shiites
Yemen’s Houthi rebels accuse Israel of standing behind the Saudi-led military campaign launched against t...
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Iran’s Supreme Censor
The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is...
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Slaughter in the Synagogue
Executioners for the Islamic State use knives to cut the throats of Christians, Yazidis and “apostate” Muslims. Palestinian executioners last week used knives and a meat cleaver to sl...
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Israel and the War of Words
JERUSALEM – Last week, a terrorist drove his car into a crowd at a light rail station, killing a three-month-old baby. Eight others were injured, including a 22-year-old woman who died a fe...
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Sandstorm
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
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Where Is Egypt Headed?
Egypt is caught in an authoritarian vise. On the one hand, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated former president Mohamed Morsi and his Islamic supporters trampled roughshod over the rights and liber...
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The Great Collision
For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...
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The Backstory Behind Egypt’s NGO Arrests
An Egyptian court convicted 43 people working for foreign democracy and human rights NGOs on Tuesday. Nineteen were Americans working for some of the most established non-profits in the world. So...