Just a Friday reminder from central Damascus that true courage is not lacking in Syria:
Amr Hamzawy, now a secularist member of the Egyptian parliament, returned to the Carnegie Endowment where he once worked on…
It is hard for me to imagine adding anything original to the flood of commentary on the Letters from Abbottabad,…
It is hard not to sympathize with Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human rights activist. The front-page photos show him…
I’m spending the day at the “The Arab Spring: Getting It Right,” the annual conference of the Center for the…
The audience for the President's speech last night on the Strategic Partnership agreement with Afghanistan was the American electorate, but…
President Obama flew in secret today to Kabul, where he signed with President Karzai the strategic partnership agreement that will…
Mona Makram-Ebeid, a determined human and women's rights advocate and Egyptian politician, returned to the Middle East Institute today, just…
I had a visit today from Iraqis concerned about Prime Minister Maliki's growing closeness to Iran and his push to…
It's a quieter week on the international front than in the recent past. But some good events nevertheless: 1. A…