Kathryn Schulz, 11.20.2009
Author, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
There's a strange phenomenon among Iraqi refugees in Damascus -- most are nocturnal. Virtually everyone sleeps all day, wakes up late in the afternoon, and stays awake until the small hours of the night.
Margaret Aguirre, 11.16.2009
Margaret Aguirre is Global Media Strategist for International Medical Corps
Fatma, 11, is one of a dozen children at the activities center International Medical Corps operates for Iraqi refugees. I can only imagine what horrors have unfolded before her eyes.
Kathryn Schulz, 11.16.2009
Author, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.
Yvonne R. Davis, 11.16.2009
President and CEO of DAVISCommunications
While the problem of unemployment in the Arab world seems insurmountable, there are a number of initiatives being implemented and proffered in the region to begin to put a dent in the problem.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin, 11.11.2009
Retired in 1996 after 17 years on the federal bench
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Arar v. Ashcroft, through a series of machinations declaring certain claims insufficiently pleaded,...
Christian Avard, 11.11.2009
Staff reporter Deerfield Valley News, Dover VT
Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.
William Bradley, 11.04.2009
California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com
I think Obama's off to a very good start. But let's not clear space on Mount Rushmore yet. Just as I didn't think he deserved the Nobel, I don't think that Obama's very good start equates to a great presidency.
Betwa Sharma, 10.29.2009
Betwa is the NY/UN correspondent for the Press Trust of India.
Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 10.23.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
The Past Two Week's Top Stories in International Affairs:
The Real Deal with Iran
The 5+1 (UN Permanent Security Council Members plus Germany) were a...
Leon T. Hadar, 10.21.2009
Journalist and foreign affairs analyst
The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
Harut Sassounian, 11.03.2009
Publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale
Playing the skillful political games of their Ottoman predecessors, Turkey's current masters present their country under various guises -- as European...
Leon T. Hadar, 10.14.2009
Journalist and foreign affairs analyst
"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 10.10.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
North Korea Back at the Table, maybe
SI Analysis: North Korea says that it will return to six party talks...
Daoud Kuttab, 10.20.2009
Palestinian journalist residing in Jerusalem and Amman.
The 21st century has seen a major deterioration in Arab nationalism. Major pan-Arab movements have either been disgraced or have proven ineffective.
Andy Worthington, 10.19.2009
Journalist and author of "The Guantanamo Files"
Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.
Ami Horowitz, 10.17.2009
Unfortunately for the world, but fortunately for my movie U.N. Me, the U.N.'s bizarre and obsequious treatment towards tyrants and totalitarians knows no bounds.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg, 09.18.2009
Former US Amb. to Morocco
Mubarak shares the president's goal of moving the Middle East peace process off dead center, and is well positioned now to be Washington's go-to guy in the Arab world, once again.
Nicholas Noe, 09.11.2009
Editor-in-Chief of the Beirut-based translation service Mideastwire.com
The Sunni, Druze and Christian coalition that first took the reins of power in July 2005 was dealt what may end up being a lethal blow this past week when the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt formerly left the March 14 Secretariat.
William Bradley, 09.05.2009
California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com
It's been two months since Obama delivered his address to the Muslim world in Cairo, promising a new era of respect and engagement. How's his opening to the Muslim world going so far?
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 08.24.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs :The Geopolitical Importance of Syria
SI Analysis: Engagement with Syria seems to be a priority for many di...
Journalism Boot Camp, 08.21.2009
The AUC-QU Journalism Boot Camp brings together US journalism students with their Arab counterparts
Despite denials that the buying of pieces by Qatar helped fuel a black market, Egyptian officials say Gulf collectors are the reason Islamic heritage sites are being looted.