Tag: Middle East

Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.

The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.

Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.

Movements need new members, and new members mean reform.

Including translations of Khamenei's speeches from 1990 to the present.

The kinds of sacred spaces we worked for are not just possible; they exist. On the other side of the planet. Under occupation.

The phenomenology of a drone strike.

Jordanian mothers with non-Jordanian husbands cannot pass along citizenship to their children. The results are devastating, but a growing campaign is committed to change.

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

The chemical weapons ban should have been made universal years ago.

When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?

Hassan Rouhani’s presidential election creates an opportunity for negotiations with Iran. President Obama should seize it.

The streets of Istanbul are alive with democratic politics—not dramatic upheaval.