Religion
China Faces Quandary over Afghan Security
The East Asian power is “between a rock and a hard place” trying to engage with the Taliban, scholar argues.
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaama al-Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance
Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco
Syrian migrant crisis symptomatic of collective failure
Fellow, Middle East Policy Council
The stand-off between Poland and Belarus over migrants from Syria and other Mideast countries has once again highlighted the failure of the international community to adequately address both the underlying causes of human displacement and the measures desperately needed to ensure migrants i
What lies behind assassination attempt on Iraq’s prime minister?
Fellow, Middle East Policy Council
Iraq, one of only two Arab countries, along with Jordan, to be invited to next month’s “Summit for Democracy,” has been rocked by violence.
Israel Emboldened by Talk of Deepening Relations with Arab Neighbors
Following the normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain, regional observers have turned their attention to the possibility of a further thawing of relations between Israel and its neighbors, even going so far as to suggest that Saudi Arabia and Lebanon ma