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 Efraim Halevy
Publisher: New Perspectives Quarterly
It is now clear that Israel delivered a withering and sustained blow to Hamas during its three-week campaign that ended …

By Faisal Kutty
As the Canadian government forges ahead with its cleverly named Passenger Protect Program, the timing could not be better to seriously reconsider what is for all intents and purposes a no-fly list.
The attention …

The story of Maher Arar, a Syrian-Canadian who was detained in the United States and subsequently returned to Syria due to the ‘threat’ that he posed, sheds light on the extraordinary and problematic governmental policies …

By Faisal Kutty
“My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return after being tortured for over a year in Syria. The Arar …

By Faisal Kutty
Syrian-born Arar was detained by U.S. authorities on September 26, 2002, during a stopover in New York en route from Tunisia to Canada. The Canadian citizen was subsequently sent to Syria for torture …

By Faisal Kutty – While Europe has become increasingly concerned about a graying population, the Middle East has had the exact opposite concern. In fact, with a population projected by the Population Reference Bureau to …