Failed bilateral talks over these past 16 years have shown that a Middle East peace accord can never be reached by the parties themselves. Israeli governments believe they can defy

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The Project on Middle East Democracy and the Heinrich B?ll Foundation co-hosted an event on Capitol Hill to mark the release of a new publication, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations

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The dilemmas of reconciling security and human rights, stability and reform, and external and internal drivers for change were the dominant themes running through a conference on Middle East democracy

The Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and the United States Institute of Peace sponsored a presentation by Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali

Ahead of President Obama’s speech to the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly tomorrow (23 September), where he is expected to make a major announcement about his plans for

This paper owes its importance to the position of the figure whose views on this crucial concept it attempts to present - that is Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who occupies an

Silence and arrests only serve one purpose: popularization of these groups. They must be given a chance to fail, or succeed. If they are not given this opportunity, then why

Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and author of numerous books on the Middle East, argues that the concept “moderate” needs to be