A former student remembers the influential scholar and expert in Arab history, who died this week at age 68

Gen. Sisi holds de facto power but with elections looming must now decide whether to legitimize his rule with a presidential run

With the Arab Spring shaking the Middle East’s status quo, a new regional order is being born. As the recent attacks in Eilat and Be’er Sheva show, Israel is likely to pay a price.

Jordan’s late King Hussein and his unsuccessful efforts to make peace get a courtier’s treatment in the new memoir from Jack O’Connell, a former CIA station chief in Amman

The renewed violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may be tied to the wave of unrest in the Arab world—as a distraction meant to lure the U.S. back to a failed peace process

Studying the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial provided a reminder that it’s always crucial to confront Holocaust denialism, whether among Nazis in the immediate postwar years or from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today

Nationalism plays a vital role in Egyptian life, and its influence—despite Arab nationalism’s frequent association with dictatorial regimes—could be a key bulwark against religious extremism there

The 1967 Soviet-Egyptian intervention in Israel is a lesson in how not to block a Mideast bomb

Geoffrey Wawro’s Quicksand misses an opportunity to make an isolationist critique of U.S. Middle East policy

In Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, Kai Bird recalls growing up in the Middle East as a diplomat’s son

But it’s all Nasser’s fault