By Fawaz Gerges
ISPU Fellow
After smiling broadly for the TV cameras and complimenting one another, U.S. President Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak provided little food for thought about what really transpired between them in …

By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and KARIN LAUB
CAIRO, Egypt – Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq — that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia …

By David Schenker
Publisher: Washington Institute for Near East Peace
The article asserts that the Middle East is racked with divisions, but that the fissures run much deeper than personal animosity.
The Arab world is embroiled in a …

By Pascale Combelles Siegel
Publisher: Jamestown Foundation
In his second speech of the year, the Amir of the al-Qaeda-allied Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, has …

By Faisal Kutty – On November 26 in the year 1095, Pope Urban II delivered a speech in Clermont, France that has had a lasting impact on the Middle East.
According to noted Arab Christian historian …