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Before ma’amoul were treats served at special occasions, they were simple biscuits that fueled travelers. “‘Ma’amoul’ is not really a fancy word,” says Nawal Nasrallah, an Iraqi food writer and ...
JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...
To those who know the Middle East, such thoughts make little sense. They are hogwash.
Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to ...
The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decades long series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind people that in the disorienting first days after Hamas’ Oct_ 7, ...
Ramah Awad, executive director of the Majdal Arab Community Center of San Diego, is a 2025 recipient of the Nancy Jamison ...
Should the US president get carried away with his bombing success and be tempted to try to change Iran’s regime, history has ...
The conflict has expanded to southern Lebanon, reverberated in Yemen and Iraq, and reached Iran. The Future of the Middle East series seeks to explore these challenges through interviewing prominent ...
Several headwinds threaten the U.S. stock market in the near term, but history says the S&P 500 is headed much higher in the long term.
If you're looking to better understand the headlines and the centuries of context behind them these books are an excellent ...
Israel’s air assault on the heart of Iran’s nuclear program has shifted the balance of power in the Middle East. Iran’s bid for regional hegemony and the survival of the Islamic regime ...