Beware the son-in-law Such are the unfortunate dramas of Arab political life. The region is devoid of any thoughtful and meaningful democratic institutions. Tiny...

Saudi Arabia is experiencing a patriotic high. Saudi media is beeming with pride. Saudi Arabia’s armed forced are courageously fighting against Yemeni Hawthi...

A decade ago, the Turkish military was on the Syrian border. Both Middle Eastern nations were not a war both tensions hampered cooperative relations. Tensions due to...

My wife and I just returned home from a three-week visit to Israel. To be accurate, we also visited the Palestinian West Bank for a day; a profoundly memorable day at...

One of the biggest propaganda lines of Zionism is that Israel is the little defense nation in a sea of hostility. Granted, Israel exists in a hostile region. But it is...

The wives of Arab dictators and despots often have a pet project they attend to (not really much different than Nancy Reagan’s obnoxious “Just Say No”...

With their master. When the history books are written on contemporary Arab life it will noted that Arab tyrants have treated their own people worse than other, even...

Recent history has been cruel to the Kurds. Unlike the Persians, another non-Arab people in the Arabian east, whom have their own great nation with borders and a means...

Do you know why we call Hummus “Hummus”? Because it is a Syrian delicacy from the Syrian town of Homs. Well, maybe not. But that makes a good story. But...

Fighting between tribes and government troops. Tens of thousands more made refugee since last month. Thousands of civilians stuck in between. Over 200,000 refugees...

A recent law amendment lowered the legal Tunisian voting age from 20 to 18. What does that mean? Simply that 500,000 more people will be able to take part in a...

The Palestinian people deserve much better than the table of corruption on one side and the religious fanaticism of the other. This post is about the former. The...

The maxim of Israel is that “the Arabs only understand the language of force.” It is a shame Zionists don’t read Hanna Arendt for they’d learn...

The Obama administration has made ending the expansion of Israel’s international illegal settlements the top priority toward restarting peace talks. After months...

Hamid Karzai is a well-known Western puppet. This is a man close to Washington neo-conservatives and was only installed as president of Afghanistan because of his...

Malcolm X once spoke about “House Niggers” as Blacks whom internalize White racism and pander to White racism and associate with White racists all in an...

Lebanon has long been mired in conflict and setback due to sectarian antagonism in the country. Despite a brief between 1958-1964, successive governments have been in...

In recent years, Lebanon has an assassinated fmr. prime minister, a subsequent string of car bombs, a war with Israel and civil strife that momentarily broke into...

Blessed as the only Middle Eastern nation without a desert, Lebanon nonetheless is a Sahara of sectarian feuds. The nation’s political system is a delicate...

Prior to Lebanon’s devastating 15-year civil war between rightists Christians and leftists Muslims, Beirut was the main cultural city in the Middle East. The...