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Under the Skin of Hamas
Hamas: From Resistance to Government By Paola Caridi Seven Stories Press, New York In this new book, Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi sets herself an ambitious goal. She seeks to get...
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The Revolution will be Televised
Egyptians watch presidential hopefuls battle it out Egyptians gained a small taste of a venerable American institution this week, with the broadcast of the first televised debate between presidential...
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Turkey’s Biggest Export
Journalists and human right activists protest in front of the courthouse in Istanbul during the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener on November 22, 2011.“Either appear...
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Here’s Hoping
An Egyptian man shows his ink-stained finger after voting in the country's first free presidential election at a polling station in Cairo on May 23, 2012. Conspicuously absent from Egypt’s presidential...
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Beware the American Muslim Vote
American Muslims and members of all faiths demonstrate March 6, 2011 in Times Square, New York The Franco-American argument about which country deserves to lecture the other on everything from liberty...
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The Significance of Libya’s Results
A Libyan National Electoral Commission worker takes a break from working as his colleague checks the ballot boxes of the National Assembly elections in Benghazi on July 12, 2012Confirming unofficial...
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Under Cover of Protest?
Yemeni protesters gather around fire during a demonstration outside the US embassy in Sanaa over a film mocking Islam on September 13, 2012Unnamed American officials have briefed the AFP news agency...
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The Never-Ending Culture of Hatred
Afghans burn the U.S. flag in Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 during anti-American riots. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Ayatollah Khomeini began the...
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Nasser’s Three Circles
Gamal Abdel NasserFollowing the overthrow of the corrupt Egyptian monarchy in 1952, a power struggle emerged between the coup’s two leaders, Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. Eventually, Nasser...
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Chipping Away at the Copts
Worshippers attend a service at the St Samaans Church in the Mokattam village, in Cairo.A large, rolled-up Arabic rug lies hazardously across the front entrance of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox church in...
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Copts’ Uneasy State Relations
Head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II (L) leads the Coptic Christmas midnight mass at the Al-Abasseya Cathedral in Cairo on January 6, 2013. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images “The...
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Ten Years, and Ten Lessons, Later
Saudi Arabian special security forces march during a military parade at a base near Mount Arafat, southeast of the holy city of Mecca. AFP STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi...
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One Big, Unhappy Family
Turkish protesters holding a Turkish flag demonstrate on the main city square, Kizilay, in the Turkish capital Ankara on June 3, 2013. ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images There is a common Turkish phrase that...
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Refusing the Politics of Piety
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi. (Tam Hussein)In 2012, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi went from being Sudan’s most celebrated poet to a political refugee. His poetry anthologies Songs of Solitude and the Sultan’s Labyrinth,...
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Tarred with the Same Brush
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) and Turkish president Abdullah Gül (L) in Istanbul on May 29, 2013. MIRA/AFP/Getty Images There is a great climactic scene in the film Finding Nemo where...
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Polish Up Your Act
Inside Beirut’s Inglot store. HANNAH LUCINDA SMITH Hamra was thronging with early drinkers and late-night shoppers on a humid evening in June. Beirut’s quirkiest district, beloved of the city’s...
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Ankara’s Creationists
A child looks at a display at the Museum of Creation and Earth History in Santee, California on August 10, 2005. The museum contains exhibits that depict the story of Creationism and refute the theory...
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Meeting Halfway
Turkish protesters holding a Turkish flag demonstrate on the main city square, Kizilay, in the Turkish capital Ankara on June 3, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)One of the initial reactions of Turkish...
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Razeq and the Caliph
Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 99th caliph and the last sultan to exert effective control over the Ottoman Empire. For 1,300 years, the caliphate was the dominant political system in the Arab Islamic...
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A Brotherhood Vision for Syria
Ali Al-Bayanouni. (Tam Hussein) In Syria, Al-Qaeda and affiliated groups have gradually emerged as one of the main threats to the survival of the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad. Ironically,...
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