The Obama Administration this week moved to delay delivery to Egypt of more major weapons systems, in order to encourage…
Today is officially a holiday and the government is still "shut down," but there are good war and peace events…
In 1948, approximately 90,000 Palestinians sought refuge in Syria during the Arab-Israeli War. Sixty-three years later, in 2011, the Palestinians…
The Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) hosted a conference Wednesday discussing a question not usually asked in polite company: "Two…
Jonas Brown continues his report on an all day conference last week at the Carnegie Endowment: The third panel discussed…
Jonas Brown, who will be getting his third masters' degree at SAIS in December, reports: The government shutdown last week…
My friends in the Syrian opposition are understandably discouraged. Months of intensified Hizbollah and Iranian support have brought the regime…
A wide array of interesting events this week (be aware of possible event cancellations due to the government shutdown): 1.…
Ken Pollack has written a highly readable but serious and in-depth book claiming that--contrary to US government policy, Congressional sentiment…
The Festival au Désert will return to Timbuktu January 9-11. If you already have what I call Foreign Legionnaire's disease,…