[caption id="attachment_55228876" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="President Obama is seeking to reshape America's defense policy"][/caption] US President, Barack Obama, unveiled last…

[caption id="attachment_55228859" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="The Al Bakra oil terminal in the north Arabian Gulf - just one of the terminals that would be affected by the closure of…

[caption id="attachment_55228816" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Hamadi Jebali"][/caption] Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, has committed himself to walking a fine line between…

[caption id="attachment_55228655" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Dr. William Quandt"][/caption] William B. Quandt has been a prominent voice in American foreign policy in the Middle East…

[caption id="attachment_55228747" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, tours a nuclear facility"][/caption] The escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear…

[caption id="attachment_55228700" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The President of the Syrian National Council (SNC), Burhan Ghalioun"][/caption] The President of the Syrian National…

[caption id="attachment_55228684" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="South Korean tourists leave Cairo at the beginning of February, 2011. The Egytian tourism industry has yet to recover from…

The seasons go by but Syria’s Arab Spring shows no sign of passing. Bashar Al-Assad’s strategy remains that of buying himself more time, in the hopes that a combination of domestic repression and…

[caption id="attachment_55228331" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Hezbollah flags flutter over Beirut"][/caption] Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, while championing Arab protestors in…

[caption id="attachment_55228286" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="President Moncef Marzouki"][/caption] Moncef Marzouki’s over-sized glasses are his and his party’s trademark. Tunisia’s…