Why are the Arabs so low in so many measurements? Even before the dissolution of the Ottoman Caliphate in the beginning of the 20th century, we went down a slope that took us to where we stand today — at the bottom of the achievement ladder. Collectively, we contribute less than most nations to world [...]

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Yossi Melman is co-author, with Iranian-born Middle East expert Meir Javedanfar, of the newly released book “The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran” (Carroll & Graf, 2007).
True, Ahmadinejad’s foreign policies – especially the desire to become a nuclear and military power – are shared by most of the country’s past [...]

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The Shia Revival - How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
An editors’ choice pick in the New York Times, which calls the book “a fast-moving, engaging, and ultimately unnerving book.”
As nations around the world struggle with the threat of militant Islam, Vali Nasr, one of the leading scholars on the Middle East, provides us [...]

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Moscow’s decision against delivering nuclear fuel to Iran’s Bushehr reactor demonstrates a change in Russian foreign policy. Previously, Russia has supported Iran throughout its confrontation with the United States and with the West over its nuclear research program. Russia saw relations with Iran as positive for a number of reasons: Iran is a major purchaser [...]

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Ferguson maintains that the United States is unquestionably an imperial power, but because Americans don’t like to think so, the US often fails to fulfill its imperial responsibilities. One crucial case in point for Ferguson is Iraq, where, in his view, an imperial power less in denial about itself would have known that such an [...]

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