Double-crossing the Rubicon

Big things going on the last few days. Egypt – major clashes between protesters and police again – hundreds or even thousands injured. Som...

I unfortunately don't have time to pull together a full post, so I'll direct you to Zenobia's piece "A day is not enough to...

It’s overwhelming sometimes. Despite the ongoing brutal violence taking place in Syria, Libya and Yemen, sometimes the flagrant abuse of pow...

As a follow-up to Wednesday's post on Lebanon I wanted to provide some opportunities for deeper reading. Elias Muhanna a Lebanese scho...

When I first started writing this blog six months ago my initial inspiration came from a cluster of events that had all kicked off than th...

As I’ve mentioned before, it was not my intention to just use this blog to collect links and news updates on the Middle East. My hope was to...

So much happened over the past few days that I haven't been able to keep up with everything and keep writing. New posts are coming, but ...