[escenic_image id="5562322"]This week was penciled in to be historic. The heads of state of 43 Mediterranean countries—including Israel, the Palestine Authority, Turkey, Egypt, Europe’s 27 members…

[escenic_image id="5562264"]Despite a relatively democratic legacy when compared to other countries in the region, the past few years have been unstable for Kuwait’s political system. Yet, amid the…

[escenic_image id="5560410"]Contemporary Saudi society is usually described as torn between two competing factions—the Islamists and the Liberals. Yet, while the first group has been the subject of…

[escenic_image id="5564398"]A year ago in a landmark speech in Cairo on June 4, President Obama called for a new beginning in America's relations with the Muslim world. Acknowledging the deep…

[escenic_image id="5555010"]Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s former interim prime minister and a current contender for the position, has been a prominent figure in most of the turning points in Iraq’s recent…

[escenic_image id="5555005"]Hamid Karzai, accompanied by a number of senior Afghan officials, recently completed his first visit to Washington since his controversial reelection as president last…

[escenic_image id="5554608"]On Obama’s second day as president, he made clear his decision to break from his predecessor’s policies by signing an executive order that would aim to close the…

[escenic_image id="5554600"]President Barack Obama’s second year in office began with no indication that Arab-Israeli peace would figure prominently on his foreign policy agenda. Declining approval…

[escenic_image id="558014"]Lebanese leaders have been busy the past few weeks warning European capitals that Israel is dangerously flirting with another war with Hezbollah. Beirut is not saying it’s…

[escenic_image id="5549996"]Yemeni-Swiss scholar Elham Manea speaks with The Majalla about the crisis in Yemen and its impact on the Gulf. Manea was born in Egypt and earned her Bachelor degree in…