Middle East

Politics

Closing of the Democratic Mind

The U.S. has lost momentum in opening up Middle Eastern societies

Michael Young | 11.17.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Lion of the Desert, Fanatics In the Street

The poetic injustice of Moustapha Akkad's murder

Charles Paul Freund | 11.16.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

One Democracy, Hold the Invasion

Palestine, not Iraq, is the best shot at an Arab democracy.

Jonathan Rauch | 11.14.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Hague on Trial

The other "trial of the century" and international justice

Kerry Howley | 10.10.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Realists, Schmealists

How a Middle East success reveals the value of muddling through in foreign

Michael Young | 9.23.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Liberal Thought in the Arab Age

Egypt's election and the fatal hang-up of Arab liberals

Michael Young | 9.8.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Iconoclast

Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection

Shikha Dalmia | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

What Went Wrong?

A onetime believer deconstructs the Iraq war

Michael Young | 7.21.2005 12:00 AM

Middle East

The Third Intifada

Jesse Walker | 7.12.2005 10:46 AM

Politics

War of the Worlds

If the victory of liberalism is inevitable, do we need to fight in the Middle East?

Ronald Bailey | 7.11.2005 12:00 AM

World

Building a New World

Mini-nations for the super-rich

Jesse Walker | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Trained Seale Goes Rogue

Arab nationalism may have lost a notable cheerleader

Michael Young | 6.16.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Beyond Arabism

Music videos and Lebanese revolution.

Charles Paul Freund | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Ridley Scott's Peaceable Kingdom

How to make a Crusades movie in the era of Osama bin Laden

Michael Young | 5.19.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Assad's Forgotten Man

A Reason interview with Syrian intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Michael Young | 5.5.2005 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Bad Host

Cutting off Iranian dissidents.

Matt Welch | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Doctors No

When Middle East expertise breeds stalemate

Michael Young | 4.21.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Madrassas Molesters

Clerical abuse in the Islamic world.

Charles Paul Freund | 4.1.2005 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Let Freedom Sing

Iran's mystery diva.

Charles Paul Freund | 4.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Behind the Cedars

Nonviolent protest in the Middle East

Jesse Walker | 3.8.2005 12:00 AM

World

Free at Last?

Some Arabs welcome American democratic browbeating

Michael Young | 2.24.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Man of Silk

Rafiq Hariri, R.I.P.

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.14.2005 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Cyberfatwa

Blogger death threats

Charles Paul Freund | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Skeptics On the Run

Iraq vote gives the hawks a day in the sun

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.31.2005 12:00 AM

Middle East

Friday Fun Link, Several Months Late

Jesse Walker | 1.28.2005 11:47 AM

World

C'est Rien

The great transatlantic rift may end with a shrug, not a bang

Matt Welch | 1.25.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Iraq's Summer Soldiers

Liberal hawks as ideological deserters.

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Allah My Children

Soap opera controversy.

Charles Paul Freund | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

World

Free the Nile

Liberalism in Egypt

Charles Paul Freund | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Field of Battle

A Frenchman fries Middle East studies in the U.S.

Michael Young | 12.29.2004 12:00 AM

World

Intruders in the Dust

Why the Middle East rejects American-induced reform

Michael Young | 12.16.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Bush 41 for Middle East Envoy

George Bush can save the Middle East. Bush 41, that is.

Jonathan Rauch | 12.4.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Stale Mates

The realists are counterattacking, God help us!

Michael Young | 12.2.2004 12:00 AM

Culture

Queen of Persia

Rock in the lap of the gods.

Charles Paul Freund | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Severed Heads

Arab literary fantasy and terrible reality.

Charles Paul Freund | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Terrorism

Burying Yasser Arafat

Let's bury more than his body

Jesse Walker | 11.16.2004 12:00 AM

Culture

Talk Like an Egyptian

Is Arab popular culture uniformly anti-American?

Charles Paul Freund | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Desertion In the Field

Twilight of the liberal hawks

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

With the Cretin, Not the Shyster

An endorsement from overseas

Michael Young | 10.28.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The Bacchus Option

Of wines and opening markets. A Reason interview with Lebanese wine writer Michael Karam

Michael Young | 10.18.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Sex, Politics, Religion, and Egypt

Want to know how complicated the Mideast can be? Go to the movies

Charles Paul Freund | 10.14.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Uses of Terror

Will Putin misuse Beslan terrorism?

Cathy Young | 9.14.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Stuff That Ballot!

France and U.S. vote No on Syrian election shell game

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Chatroom Revolutionaries

Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web.

Marc Johnson | 8.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

House of Cards

If the Saudis keel over, we'll always have Iraq

Michael Young | 7.21.2004 12:00 AM

World

Berger Time

What goes on in the pants of a highly flappable official

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.20.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Bad and Worse

Let's hold US to higher standards

Cathy Young | 6.29.2004 12:00 AM

World

Bringing the War Back Home

Is it Waterloo for the forces of perpetual war for perpetual democracy?

Brian Doherty | 6.14.2004 12:00 AM