On 9 April 2003, as US forces entered Baghdad’s Firdos Square, a group of young men emerged from a nearby alley and made their way toward the…

In 1983, a satirical play by Ziad Rahbani called Shi Fashel (A Total Failure) follows a director and actors who want to perform a play about Lebanon…

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s recent declaration that the era of “exporting revolution” was over provoked an outcry from Iran’s allies in…

The ongoing US–Iran nuclear negotiations have become a diplomatic laboratory, where genuine proposals and tactical feints intermingle, testing not…

Two days after a ceasefire was declared along the Indo-Pakistani border, officials in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district rededicated a massive statue…

After decades of Assad rule by a family closely allied with Iran and belonging to the Alawite (an offshoot of Shiism) sect, a project to reassert…

As calls in the US, Israel and within Lebanese society mount for Hezbollah to disarm, the reactions of Lebanese Shiites tell a story of both fear and…

As soon as the Iranian Revolution deposed the Shah and took control of the country, its leaders sought to establish a project of profound ideological…

Few political or military leaders in Lebanon have ever apologised to their compatriots for the atrocities committed during the country’s civil war,…

In the West, the role of religion in power has evolved over time. From the fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire's embrace of…