Arab

Here come the muhajababes! Here come the muhajababes!

How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today.
By Laura Miller Jul 10, 2008

  • Of war and cancer

    Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
    By Gary Kamiya March 18, 2008

  • Obama should be proud to be named Hussein

    The attacks on Barack Obama's middle name have begun, but the likely Democratic nominee joins a long line of famous Americans with Semitic names, from Benjamin Franklin to Omar Bradley.
    By Juan Cole February 28, 2008

  • A new face for American diplomacy

    Barack Obama is perceived by Muslims abroad like no other candidate. He would begin a presidency with tremendous potential to heal U.S. relations with much of the world.
    By Hooman Majd February 21, 2008

  • Blowback from the GOP's holy war

    The 2008 Republican race has left a bitter legacy of sloganeering against Muslims. It may well haunt the party this November.
    By Juan Cole February 1, 2008

  • The agonizing truth about CIA renditions

    The fate of prisoners secreted away under the Bush administration is in some ways worse than even Hollywood has portrayed.
    By Stephen Grey November 5, 2007

  • Leaving Baghdad

    As we crossed the Syrian border and saw the last of the Iraqi flags, the tears began. How can such a small distance separate life from death?
    By Riverbend September 21, 2007

  • A surge of phony spin on Iraq

    Bush's backers are peddling a sunny view of the president's strategy -- despite Iraq's political chaos and soaring death counts.
    By Juan Cole August 7, 2007

  • Inside the minds of killer doctors

    Some of the accused behind the recent terror plots in Britain were professional healers. What on earth prompts someone to snap from caregiver to killer?
    By Juan Cole July 9, 2007

  • American goodwill, in shackles

    How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.
    By P.W. Singer June 26, 2007

  • Spinning the disaster in Gaza

    Bush and Olmert scramble to prop up Abbas, but the Hamas takeover boosts Iran and leaves hopes for a Palestinian state in tatters.
    By Aluf Benn June 20, 2007

  • "Hamastan" vs. "Fatahstan"

    Hamas' violent takeover in Gaza leaves the Palestinian territories divided, and U.S. and Israeli strategy under a cloud.
    By Christoph Schult June 19, 2007

  • Rethinking Israel's David-and-Goliath past

    Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.
    By Sandy Tolan June 4, 2007

  • How Iran played the hostage "crisis"

    The captured British sailors ate decent meals and were set free in business suits -- as Tehran used them to score political points on the Arab street.
    By Hooman Majd April 5, 2007

  • Israel's Arab problem hits home

    Tensions are rising between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens -- and could affect the chances for peace, or wider war, in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey January 29, 2007

  • Nation building

    Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi explains why Palestinians have failed to create a nation and discusses the grave situation in the Middle East.
    By Jonathan Shainin December 18, 2006

  • "An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle

    Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
    By Gary Kamiya January 30, 2004

  • Letters

    Israeli whitewash or Arab propaganda? Readers weigh in on Christopher Farah's interview with Israeli historian Benny Morris and the wounds of 1948.
    January 29, 2004

  • Why Bush's Middle East propaganda campaign won't work

    The U.S. is spending millions crafting messages to win the hearts and minds of the Arab world. There's just one problem: We have no credibility
    By Samer Shehata July 12, 2002

  • "Stolen Lives"

    After a fairy-tale upbringing as the adopted daughter of Moroccan King Muhammad V, Malika Oufkir was imprisoned in desert jails for over 20 years after her father's coup against the king's heir failed.
    Read by Edita Brychta October 22, 2001

  • Suspicious minds

    Many Arab rulers would like to support the Western war on Osama bin Laden. But their subjects disagree, and have a laundry list of reasons why.
    By Eric Boehlert October 9, 2001

  • "I can't believe this is America"

    At the Arab Club of a Manhattan college, accusations and racial slurs make it hard to grieve.
    By Rebecca Segall September 26, 2001

  • The view from Beirut

    An American in Lebanon warns that despite Bush's efforts, Arabs will likely view an attack on terrorism as a war on Islam.
    By Paul Wachter September 21, 2001

  • Waxing political

    Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum is host to a feisty little uproar. Yasser Arafat, some say, deserves a good melting.
    By Michael J. Jordan May 24, 2001

  • Peace? Please hold

    As the bloodbath rages in the Middle East, Ehud Barak calls for a "timeout" in the peace process.
    By Flore de Prineuf October 23, 2000
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