Middle East

Orientalism Revisited

Edward Said’s unfinished critique.

  • Lawrence Rosen

Anatomy of a Civil War

Iraq’s descent into chaos.

  • Nir Rosen

The 33-Day War

Hizbullah’s victory, Israel’s choice.

  • Helena Cobban

Native Speaker

An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.

  • Laila Lalami

Hamas’s Next Steps

Finding the road to Palestine.

  • Helena Cobban

The Brotherhood

How far will Egypt’s Islamists go? 

  • Stephen Glain

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On the Ground in Iraq

The roots of sectarian violence.

  • Nir Rosen

The Crusader

Why we must take Osama bin Laden’s writings seriously.

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl

Exit Strategy

How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months.

  • Barry R. Posen
with responses from
  • Barbara K. Bodine
  • Joseph R. Biden
  • Vivek Chibber
  • Russell D. Feingold
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Lawrence Korb & Brian Katulis
  • Helena Cobban
  • Christopher Preble
  • Eliot Weinberger
  • Nir Rosen

Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

  • Helena Cobban

What Went Wrong

Why the United States must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

  • Rajan Menon

Time Out of Joint

Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm

Reason and Terror

Has 9/11 made it hard to think straight?

  • Diego Gambetta

Dead End

Is there a future for secular Palestinian nationalism?

  • Helena Cobban

Iran’s Other Religion

The birthplace of Zarathustianism.

  • Jehangir Pocha

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy

How can a democratic conception of the people’s authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of God’s authority?

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • John L. Esposito
  • Nader Hashemi
  • Noah Feldman
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • M.A. Muqtedar Khan
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Saba Mahmood
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Bernard Haykel
  • William B. Quandt

A Warning from History

Don’t expect democracy in Iraq.

  • John W. Dower

Waiting for War in Damascus

Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down.

  • Helena Cobban

Fenced In

As Arafat declines and Israel’s grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

  • Helena Cobban

The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

  • Lama Abu-Odeh
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Leonard Fein
  • Louis Michael Seidman
  • Ian S. Lustick
  • Ebrahim Moosa
  • Efraim Karsh
  • Jerome M. Segal
  • Salim Tamari

Ataturk’s Children

Casting light on Washington’s genocidal ally in the Middle East.

  • John Tirman

The Month of Rushdies

  • Eliot Weinberger

A Walk Into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women.

  • Betty Sosnin

Embattled Lebanon

For the last ten years, the country has been held hostage by its own people and by regional wars and revolutions.

  • Sherman Teichman
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