Category Archives: middle east – general

I Wish I Were in Cairo

It is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. Not so…

My old political philosophy teacher Professor Yusuf Ibish outlined the conditions he thought would lead inevitably to revolution. They included…

The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets have turned Sana’a, Yemen, into the new world terror…

Spare a kind thought for my old friend Michael Morrell’s oldest son, Geoff, the Pentagon’s Press Secretary. The Defense Department…

“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…

Patrick Tyler provides a misguided excuse for America’s ongoing role in the catastrophe that is the Middle East, says Charles…

John Cooley covered the Middle East for American newspapers and radio from 1953 until his death. As correspondent of The…

When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…

Note: In 1987, Charles Glass’s journey through Greater Syria from Alexandretta in southern Turkey to Aqaba on the Red Sea…

Abu Said Aburish Grand old man of the TIME Beirut bureau 04 May 2005 Abu Said Aburish became part of…