The Arab Spring will undoubtedly go down in history as an important moment in the liberation of the Arab people from tyranny. But, like most major political upheavals, it has had a number of unfortunate and largely unforeseen consequences.
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On 16 March 2003, the last day of her life, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was in the Gaza town of Rafah standing in front of the Palestinian family home (not just a house) of Dr Samir Nasrallah. Dr Nasrallah was a local pharmacist and Corrie had been staying with his family while serving as part of an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) cadre seeking to disrupt the Israeli army's on-going demolition of Palestinian homes. Between 2000 and 2004, the Israelis had destroyed enough homes in the Rafah area to leave some 1,700 people homeless.
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There is an urgent need to address lingering disputes, reassure smaller states of their position and create a clear blueprint of what the alliance will be about
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Middle East Region needs assistance to make the transition from autocracy, but the Obama administration is preoccupied with the presidential elections
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The Palestinian refugee problem is today perhaps the most painful of those faced by the public and politicians on both sides, seeking ways to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. In this case, each party has built around the refugee problem a system of myth
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The law allowing Arabs and Orthodox Jews to avoid national military service in Israel expires on August 1, and the Arab community faces a deep split over the inevitable military duty. Israeli Arabs fear they’d have to confront their co-religionists.
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An Arab-Israeli Islamist leader has won an annulment of an order for his deportation from...
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