March 15 marked the seventh year of conflict in Syria, resulting in more than five million refugees and many more internally displaced. Many of the Syrians who fled long to return to their homes, but...
Good morning! The US election is just five weeks away, and it's been an...interesting...weekend. Let's take a look at the news of note, shall we? And while we're at it, please do share what you're...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has earnestly promoted himself as a useful ally in the fight against the Islamic State group in his country. Could he really be an imperfect, yet useful, ad-hoc ally...
We hear the above term a lot, and some suspect that it is derives from the Hadith of the Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him). However, most are confused as to its origins, given that it appears in...
Governments throughout the Middle East are responding to pro-democracy protests with brutal crackdowns. Even in Egypt, so recently the site of so much public euphoria and jubilation, the military...
I’ve been having trouble sleeping this past week. Every night. I go to bed and there is an underlying feeling of guilt that keeps creeping up on me. It chokes me. Makes me lay there at night for...
“People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people” – V for Vendetta It has only been two weeks since the Arab world, quite literally in some...
A few months ago, I insulted someone horribly. Darting about outside in a helpless panic, I had accosted a young man who was, by the looks of him, just trying to get home after a long day. "Do you...
This is a review of Avi Shlaim's Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace. Allen Lane. 2007. Many volumes on the lives of Israeli and Palestinian politicians, and their involvement...
As soon as we entered Amman Surgical Hospital, the depth of the tragedy engulfed us. To my right, a young man slouched in a chair, surrounded by friends. A veiled woman, who could have been his...