[escenic_image id="55155341"]It was only five years ago when the then unknown mayor of Tehran kissed the hands of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…

[escenic_image id="55150430"]Germany is in a tough spot. On the one hand, the country's recent roaring growth figures have validated its export-led…

[escenic_image id="55150410"]While most Afghanistan observers are looking to major operations in Marjah and Kandahar for signs of how President Obama…

[escenic_image id="55149782"]Since its independence in 1919, Afghanistan has been influenced by foreign forces, and the last 30 years of its…

[escenic_image id="55136516"]Inspired by a chance meeting with the Arabian explorer Wilfred Thesinger, Gardner went on to study Arabic and Islamic…

[escenic_image id="55132106"] An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?  Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield C Hurst & Co…

[escenic_image id="55129228"]Greek author Dimitris Nollas wrote Anyone’s Time, a novel charting the life and times of a clandestine anarchist cell in…

[escenic_image id="55110711"]RIYADH–A well-known Saudi religious scholar recently advised that a woman could become kin to a man—and thus be alone…

[escenic_image id="55105033"]The life of a great man has reached its completion. This was the realization of Arabs frrm the ocean to the Gulf,…

[escenic_image id="55101553"]Marjane Satrapi has been publishing graphic novels since the beginning of the new millennium. But it wasn’t until the…