Comfortably numb

12 years ago

While Tzipi Livni was lifting spirits at the American Jewish Committee, the New America Foundation hosted Israeli journalists Linoy Bar-Geffen…

Wishing doesn’t make it so

12 years ago

Yesterday's report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syria to the UN Human Rights Commission is an…

Self-determined

12 years ago

I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon with the leading lights of Kosovo's "Self-Determination" movement, Albin Kurti and Shpend…

Livni lifts spirits

12 years ago

Too often the discourse surrounding the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict focuses on divergent narratives. Complex ideas loaded with emotional and historical…

Peace Picks, June 3rd to June 7th

12 years ago

1. Democracy Think Tanks in Action: Translating Research into Policy in Young and Emerging Democracies, National Endowment for Democracy, Monday,…

“Il potere logora chi non ce l’ha”

12 years ago

As I am about to risk denunciation for drawing unreasonable parallels, let me state up front that Turkey is not…

Islamist politics meet diversity

13 years ago

Nuance and context were the main themes in a discussion this week at the Carnegie Endowment of the role of…

No exoneration

13 years ago

I won't pretend to have read the gigantesque judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitting…

Not promising

13 years ago

With the strategically placed town of Qusayr about to fall to Syrian army and Lebanese Hizbollah forces, the Syrian opposition…

Schizoeurope

13 years ago

Britain and France have collaborated in getting the European Union to lift its arms embargo on Syria, opening the possibility…