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Syria's War Spreads to Lebanon 25 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
It finally happened. Syria’s civil war has officially spilled into Lebanon, and the two sides are using mass casualty terrorism against one another. Earlier this month, a car bomb exploded in Hezboll...
Reader Feedback Needed 21 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
The Middle East has never been the only part of the world I want to visit and write about, and I’d like to branch out again. My first attempt to expand my beat, so to speak, was a smashing success. O...
Egypt Spins its Wheels 19 Aug 2013 | 09:21 pm
Walter Russell Mead’s latest essay in The American Interest, Bambi Meets Godzilla in the Middle East, is a must-read. I wish he was wrong, but alas he is not. Bambi, in his formulation, is President ...
Mubarak Will Go Free 19 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Cairo’s new government has ordered the release of Hosni Mubarak from prison. Egypt is going in circles. OG Image:
The Truth About Egypt 16 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Egypt looks dodgier than ever right now. Just six weeks after overthrowing the government in a military coup, the armed forces opened fire on civilians protesting the removal of President Mohammad Mo...
Exodus 14 Aug 2013 | 10:50 am
My latest is a review of Samel Tadros' book Motherland Lost in the Wall Street Journal. The Middle East is tough on minorities. After millennia of Jewish presence throughout the Arab and Persian land...
Can Beirut Be Paris Again? 12 Aug 2013 | 10:44 am
My latest essay in the print edition of City Journal is now available online. Here's the first part: Before it became the poster child for urban disaster areas in the mid-1970s, Beirut was called the...
Diana West's Junk History 11 Aug 2013 | 03:38 am
I'm a little slow this week since I'm out of town visiting family and attending a wedding, but I have some more material almost ready to go. In the meantime, take a look at historian Ron Radosh's mast...
Hezbollah Plays the Israel Card 4 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah briefly emerged from his underground lair on Friday and delivered his first public speech in years urging his enemies to stop fretting over his involvement...
Is Morocco the Model for Arab Democracy? 2 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
I have another long essay in the current issue of The Tower magazine, this one about Morocco. I briefly cover a few things at the beginning that I’ve covered here at length, so I’m going to post an ex...
