[caption id="attachment_55248653" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz (2nd L) is welcomed by his Japanese…

[caption id="attachment_55248650" align="alignnone" width="620"] United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) departs Montreux on January 23, 2014…

[caption id="attachment_55248676" align="alignnone" width="620"] File photo of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, taken on January 29,…

[caption id="attachment_55248619" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man reacts to the destruction in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on February 16…

[caption id="attachment_55248606" align="alignnone" width="619"] Displaced Syrians wait to cross the Orontes river into Turkey on February 5, 2014. …

[inset_left]Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to RevolutionBy Dr. Thomas PierretCambridge University Press, 287 pagesCambridge,…

[caption id="attachment_55248544" align="alignnone" width="620"] House visits of community mid-wives are instrumental in providing household-based…

[caption id="attachment_55248585" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Turkish Cypriot girl plays in a park near the UN buffer zone on referendum day in…

[caption id="attachment_55248566" align="alignnone" width="620"] Still from the film Ladder to Damascus, Mohamad Malas, 2013.[/caption] Ever since he…

[caption id="attachment_55248547" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian newlyweds Aisha and Mohammed join celebrations at Cairo's Tahrir Square…