blaming the West” as some readers might rush to suggest here. I argue that deeper geopolitical factors have created numerous confrontational factors between the East and the West that predate Islam, continued with Islam and...

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this...

I got a call froma cynical young American journalist…You know the sort. He’s lived in the Middle East for a little over five minutes so assumes he knows us natives well. I sip at a...

If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.