Many assume that the ill-advised American decision to de-Baathify Iraqi culture (thereby removing the educated technocrats who could have best rehabilitated postwar Iraq simply because they had joined Saddam’s Ba’ath Party) and to disband the Iraqi Army (which rendered tens of thousands of desperate,..…

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia’s main partner in a Riyadh-led coalition invading Yemen, buys around $1.8 billion worth of American arms at an Abu Dhabi military exhibition. . “The United Arab Emirates is Saudi Arabia's main partner in the ongoing..…

Many Arab states have long believed the road to American validation runs through Israel. This was the main driver behind Qatar’s decision to permit the opening of an Israeli trade office in Doha in the 1990s. . ..…

ANY members also learn about the theories of Constantin Zureiq (1909-2000), who taught at the American University of Beirut and in the 1950s inspired the Arab Nationalist Movement, which gave rise to the main far-left Lebanese and Palestinian organisations after 1967: the Popular..…

This was the initial aim of the Clinton-era policies toward China and Russia, of the policies toward Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, as well as of the policies toward Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wider Arab world. This is different from what had been the main business of American..…

SOUTH BEND -- Waving American, Palestinian and Lebanese flags on Sunday afternoon, some 50 people protested the hundreds of lives lost to the two-week-old, U.S.-supported Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon. ..…