VAIL – When people talk about the Middle East they usually say things like, “it’s complicated.” It isn’t, says Christopher Hill, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. “Arab Spring now seems to be morphing ...

Allow me to start this piece with a caveat: although I understand and speak decent Arabic and spent years reading the Arab press and watching Arab television, I have never lived a substantial amount ...

All over the Middle East and Arab world, violent and non-violent civil resistance was forming. In 2010, a new term was coined for this regional revolt- “The Arab Spring”. Arguably, the most famous ...

In 2020, Toronto-based Palestinian-Jordanian composer Shireen Abu Khader founded Dozan World—an offshoot of Dozan wa Awtar Music Establishment, the celebrated choir she established in 2002—as a hub ...

This meeting is held for the purpose of contemplating self-knowing and knowing the Other. If self-knowing requires a form of separation, knowing the Other requires something of its opposite; of ...

BEIRUT: Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Saad Khalaf have assigned themselves the daunting task of framing the most important and enduring issues relevant to Arab society and culture. Their 545-page edited ...

Perplexity and despair seem to be the two sentiments that most often define peoples attitudes to the mayhem in Syria. The fighting by an expanding range of Syrians, backed by a regional and global web ...

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