| It’s a more dangerous world since 9/11 |
| By Rami G. Khouri | September 07, 2011 12:00 AM |
| To arrive in the United States, as I did a few days ago, one week before the 10th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks is to reach a land that is, remarkably... |
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| By Rami G. Khouri | September 03, 2011 01:43 AM |
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Two major Middle East-related events will take place this month with their epicenter in New York City: the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States...
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| By David Ignatius | September 03, 2011 01:43 AM |
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When David Petraeus takes over as CIA director next week, he will confront a tricky problem...
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| By Rami G. Khouri | September 02, 2011 02:06 AM |
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The signs are not good for the Syrian regime headed by President Bashar Assad and his tightly knit network of family members, security agencies, Baath Party members and business associates.
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Stillborn reform
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| September 07, 2011 12:00 AM |
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Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi’s mission to end unrest in Syria by promoting modest reform seems destined to fail before it has even begun.
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Hostage nation
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| September 06, 2011 02:07 AM |
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A strong whiff of betrayal lingers in the environs of Lebanon’s Cabinet these days, the days of Energy Minister Jibran Bassil’s draft energy bill.
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What’s in a domain name? Much more than you imagine
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| Esther Dyson | September 07, 2011 12:00 AM |
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A name is just a sound or sequence of letters. It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people’s minds – a concept, a person, a brand, or a particular thing or individual.
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Arab rebels must defer to legitimacy
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| By Rami G. Khouri | August 27, 2011 01:45 AM |
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Libya these days reminds us that all Arab countries in political transition must answer how they will deal with the men and women who held senior posts in the former regimes that they overthrew.
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Hezbollah faces its trial with errors
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| By Michael Young | August 25, 2011 01:24 AM |
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For a party that repeats how unconcerned it is with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Hezbollah spends much time showing how concerned it is with the tribunal.
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What we don’t know about Al-Qaeda is most dangerous
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| By David Ignatius | August 25, 2011 01:24 AM |
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Government officials refer to it blandly as the “SSE,� or Sensitive Site Exploitation. That’s their oblique term for the extraordinary cache of evidence that was carried away from Osama bin Laden’s compound the night the Al-Qaeda leader was killed.
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Libya’s lessons for the Arab world
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| By Rami G. Khouri | August 24, 2011 02:07 AM |
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The imminent triumph of Libyan citizens who have fought successfully to overthrow the 42-year rule of Moammar Gadhafi adds an important chapter to the book of revolutionary transformation that much of the Arab world has been writing this year.
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America must address its stubborn job-creation problem
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| By Fareed Zakaria | August 23, 2011 01:29 AM |
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Democrats are finally up for a fight – with President Barack Obama. Having despaired that Obama gave in to the tea party on the debt deal, they now criticize him as too cautious in his proposals to boost American jobs.
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Bashar Assad has one choice: how to exit
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| By Rami G. Khouri | August 20, 2011 01:53 AM |
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President Bashar Assad of Syria has painted himself into a corner from which he has options to determine only one thing: How does he leave office and start a democratic transition in the country?
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In Syria, the U.S. can pursue interests and values
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| By David Ignatius | August 20, 2011 01:53 AM |
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U.S. intelligence analysts, like most American observers, have often referred to the process unfolding in the Middle East as the “Arab Spring,� with its implicit message of democratic rebirth and freedom.
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Drop the Orientalist term ‘Arab Spring’
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| By Rami G. Khouri | August 17, 2011 12:32 AM |
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A fascinating aspect of the current wave of citizen revolts that is toppling, challenging or reforming regimes across the Arab world is that people around the world use different terms to describe the phenomenon.
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Cyber-security is starting to elicit genuine U.S. policy
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| By David Ignatius | August 15, 2011 01:33 AM |
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“Cyber-security� is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers, without producing much in the way of policy. But that’s beginning to change, in one of 2011’s most important but least noted government moves.
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Arab autocrats get hit by legitimacy
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| By Rami G. Khouri | August 13, 2011 12:36 AM |
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It has been eight months this week since that the first wave of citizen revolts across the Arab world was initiated in Tunisia. Two very important trends in that process now need to be better assessed and dealt with politically.
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Rolling shocks explain why the world is so depressed
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| By David Ignatius | August 11, 2011 01:50 AM |
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Free markets, in theory, are supposed to be self-correcting. When they’re knocked off balance, changes in prices should gradually bring the system back to equilibrium.
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We need talking heads, the Lebanese way
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| By Michael Young | August 11, 2011 01:50 AM |
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In an interview with Al-Akhbar Wednesday, Samir Geagea, the head of the Lebanese Forces, described Druze leader Walid Jumblatt as the “Sergeant Shultz� of Lebanese politics.
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Middle Eastern vultures circle over a wounded Syria
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| By Rami G. Khouri | August 10, 2011 12:33 AM |
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The sudden heightened rhetoric on the events in Syria by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League is unlikely to change how the situation in the country unfolds.
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