VAIL – When people talk about the Middle East they usually say things like, “it’s complicated.” It isn’t, says Christopher Hill, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. “Arab Spring now seems to be morphing ...

Tom Spencer analyses in depth the background and context of the Arab revolutions, the European Union's "flabby diplomacy" and the repercussions these developments will have on the EU's political ...

All over the Middle East and Arab world, violent and non-violent civil resistance was forming. In 2010, a new term was coined for this regional revolt- “The Arab Spring”. Arguably, the most famous ...

AMMAN — The richness of the Jordanian culture shined last month, as musical prodigy Layth Sidiq seized the second place in the international Seifert Zbigniew Jazz Violin Competition held in Poland.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As my 3-hour seminar on Modern Middle East history came to an end, a classmate approached me about ...

The Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz wrote in his novel ‘Heart of the Night’, that ‘Politics is a spacious word; its charm is distributed among all sects. Politics is life’. It is a ...

Allow me to start this piece with a caveat: although I understand and speak decent Arabic and spent years reading the Arab press and watching Arab television, I have never lived a substantial amount ...