American Jewish groups imagine the former U.S. envoy as a bulwark protecting Israel against Democratic Party radicals—but is that more about hope, or anxiety?

China’s drive for supremacy is now underway in the Middle East—and it won’t end there

The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas

Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration

Two years on, the time has come for a moral assessment of our military strategy in the Middle East

Agents of Influence: Obama and his advisers, now seeking to shape his legacy, say they are proud they ditched the ‘Washington playbook’ and decided to stay out of the Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East. Only they didn’t. They intervened on behalf of Iran.

It’s the most extreme form of institutionalized violence against women on the planet

And are we now on the eve of the emergence of a new, Fifth International?

Successive two-term administrations made a mess of the Middle East. Who will clean up?

Patricia Crone, the late scholar of Islam, fearlessly and rigorously explored the origins of Iran’s influential and mystical version of the religion

With many regions of the Middle East mired in ongoing turmoil, what is the legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

Robert F. Worth’s ‘A Rage for Order’ brings the broad disappointments of the Arab Spring to the human level

Helen Mirren stars in the ‘flawed but riveting’ portrayal of the wrenching dilemmas of the military’s new intimate killing

The post-American Middle East being born in Syria is an irretrievably changed land of sectarianism and new foreign hegemony

President Barack Obama has done more to pivot the United States away from the hawkish foreign policy entrenched in Washington than even his supporters give him credit for