For the past 50 years, the song “Ramadan Gana” has played through airwaves in Egypt as well as many parts of the Arab world to welcome the arrival of the holy month. The song’s…

When Andrea Leadsom first came to prominence in the wake of the referendum result, as a possible replacement for David Cameron, was I alone in noticing how she resembled Dame Vera Lynn, the forces’…

While images of child soldiers bearing weapons and carrying out armed operations for militias can be shocking to the public eye, it is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the use of child soldiers can be…

I was an immigrant before my first birthday. We leftIranin 1975 forPeoria, Illinois, home ofCaterpillar; my father transferred there from the company’sTehranbranch. The Iranian Revolution began in…

Nationalism has returned to the world stage, wrapped in the nativistic and xenophobic rallying cries of populist and…

For some time now, I’ve been preoccupied with eyebrows in a way few men have ever been. Not since the obsessive young man described in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, As You Like It, has…

A new tide of people power is rising inAfrica. OnApril 2, a nonviolent resistance movement inAlgeriasucceeded in pressuringAbdelaziz Bouteflikato resign after 20 years as president. Nine days…

The series of suicide bombings at Christian churches and hotels in Sri Lanka’s capital,Colombo, on Easter Sunday threatened to rip apart the country’s complex ethno-religious fabric. The…

After over a year of consideration, the Trump administration appears poised to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. Though there is widespread political support for such a move…

Although immigration dominates the headlines, public beliefs about immigrants, as recorded in polls, often differ wildly from the facts. This timely and informative book…