Lucy Schouten
Shopping in the Middle East can be a surprise to Westerners. There’s the greeting, the inquiry after one’s family, leading…
Anyone who obtained too much power in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had two choices: join the Ba’ath Party or die. Joseph…
In the course of my journalistic wanderings, I met a woman who gave up a dream of becoming a medical…
July 14, according to the United Nations, is Malala Day, referring to the birthday of the Pakistani “girl who stood…
American diplomacy in the Middle East is starting to resemble a giant game of whack-a-mole. On top of everything else,…
The Middle East is known more for its locusts than crickets, but some kind of insectile chirping could be heard…
“We win every battle, but we lose the war,” said Ami Ayalon, who once led the Israeli secret service. Ayalon spoke…
Arguably the Bible’s most successful evangelizer was the prophet Jonah, whose story is told in the biblical book of the…
On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed and the door to the United States of America…
Perhaps Americans have forgotten how much of the Cold War was fought in the Middle East, but Russia has not….
