Stunning

12 years ago

Hassan Rouhani's first-round win in Friday's Iranian presidential election is stunning.  It is no mean feat to reach 50% against…

Who Rouhani isn’t

12 years ago

While the votes are still being counted, early returns suggest that Hassan Rouhani is running far ahead of the other…

Bouazizi’s lament

12 years ago

Two years into the Arab uprisings, the economic situation in the Middle East remains challenging. This week Adnan Mazarei, Deputy…

Talking Timbuktu

12 years ago

I'm traveling to San Antonio today for a nephew's wedding and don't have time to write anything before I get…

At last

12 years ago

In a statement this evening, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said: Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assesses…

Syria options

12 years ago

With Washington still undecided what to do about Syria, it is time to look again at military options.  The regime…

To Albin and Shpend from Ed

12 years ago

Ed Joseph, my colleague here at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, offers this open memo to our…

Thaci: a fine performance

12 years ago

I tweeted most of the substance of what Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci had to say today at Johns Hopkins' School…

We all have problems

12 years ago

I tweeted this morning about my weekend in Doha: Hard to imagine a more telling indictment of US energy policy…

Bahrain: silence is a war crime

12 years ago

Protests in Bahrain have attracted media coverage outside the country, but there has been little international attention paid to its…