The United States's military evacuation of Iraq‘s cities on 30 June 2009, the beginning of its overall withdrawal from the country, also offers an opportunity to heal
A visit by an American president to the Arab world might not in normal circumstances be of great importance to the majority of people in the region. There is still
On 8 May 2008, hours after the beginning of Lebanon's latest civil war, a storm swept into the capital from the seas. At first it threatened Beirut'
Barack Obama's victory in the election for the next president of the United States on 4 November 2008 was an undeniable symbol of progress for the entire world,
It's no secret that Lebanon is a country full of contradictions, and the fighting that recently broke out in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in the
Four years after the occupation of Iraq started, many Iraqis and Americans are starting to wonder if the nightmare is finally nearing its end. In the United States, political machinations
There was something distinctly tragic about the way Iraq's economy was ravaged during the 1980s and the 1990s. Because of a rare combination of vast natural resources and
The explosion at Mustansiriyah University that killed more than seventy people on 16 January 2007 sent a clear message: no one is safe in today's Iraq. The Iraqi
How best to describe the situation in Lebanon today? The country's major political parties are adopting irreconcilable positions, and are all being supported by hundreds of thousands of
Many in Iraq are wondering how the results of the United States congressional elections that took place on 7 November 2006 will affect them. The Democrats, who have won control
A dangerous trend is emerging amongst United States policymakers and political commentators. Faced in Iraq with an ever-strengthening insurgency and an increasingly bloody civil war, more of them are warming
The armed attack on a Shi'a religious procession in Baghdad on 20 August 2006 that killed around seventeen pilgrims (as well as four gunmen) and caused injury to
