Peter Theroux is a Los Angeles-based writer and translator.
Xiyue Wang’s imprisonment in Iran and later activism have been awkward for regime-aligned Princeton officials eager to move on from their former student
Two new books on Iran bring the lives of ordinary people and ruling ayatollahs into sharper relief
Faysal Khartash’s newly translated novel depicts the grim numbness of life amidst the barbarism in Syria
Reporting from an antisemitic dictatorship in Syria
Among the greatest, and surely the weirdest, 20th-century spy novels, written by a former CIA Mideast case officer and centered on the early history of the State of Israel
In his new memoir, ‘Undaunted,’ former CIA Director John Brennan offers a self-portrait of a blustering desk jockey with severe anger-management issues
A new biography of Iranian terror chief Qassem Soleimani
The head-scratching case of Thomas Erdbrink, who apparently upset the Iranian government, and went silent for a year
There’s a reason why Iranian students in STEM fields are being asked questions and sometimes turned away by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents
How a secure Israel brought out the best—and worst—of political Arab men of letters
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