The life of a hostage: terrifying, unjust and expendable

Alan Johnston told a press conference after his release yesterday morning, “They did threaten my life a number of times.…

A patriotic thought experiment

“I am going to teach [them] to elect good men.” –President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to…

During the frozen winter of 2003 in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, Ahmad Chalabi was waiting for the United States…

Edward Luttwak is right that the middle east is not important enough to fight over. That’s why the US should…

There was no more improbable sight in Beirut during the brutal Israeli siege of 1982 than a graceful and elegant…

The Richmond Theatre 30 April – 5 May 2007 Following Aida’s premier in Cairo in December 1871, Verdi wrote, “This…

Israel should have known better. Even before abandoning their bases inside Lebanon in 2000, the Israelis had been unable to…

Review of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri And Its Impact On The Middle East by Nicholas Blandford…

In his memoir, Not So Wild a Dream, the famous CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid recalled watching the execution of six…

In the summer of 1982, while Lebanon was under Israeli attack as it is now, Pamela Cooper worked tirelessly helping…