Fifty years ago this July, Israel assassinated Ghassan Kanafani, by planting a bomb in his car killing him and his 17-year-old niece.

The Biden administration’s approach and media coverage given to the president’s visits to Israel/Palestine and Saudi Arabia were starkly contradictory.

My conflicted feelings about the Fourth of July were a long time in the making. In eighth grade I won a citywide speech contest, delivering remarks on patriotism to an audience including my proud parents.

Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, was in the Middle East earlier this month with her children. In the region for work-related meetings, she had taken them to her ancestral home in Lebanon.

Though the January 6th congressional hearings may be important for the historical record, detailing the facts behind the insurrection that attempted to violently overturn the 2020 election, it may also be an exercise in futility.First, we already know the essentials of what happe

Last week, Mary Lou McDonald, the president of the Irish republican/socialist party, and leader of the opposition in the Irish Parliament, addressed a European Union conference.

While the GOP’s internal battle revolves around Trump and Trumpism, the conflict playing out among Democrats is between moderates and progressives and comes in two distinct forms.The first is between candidates seeking to broaden the party’s appeal beyond its “base”, and those wh

It is difficult to find the words that adequately describe our feelings on first learning of the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Texas last week.

In addition to the predictable battles that will take place between the Republican and Democratic parties, this year’s US primary election contests are featuring significant struggles being waged within both parties.On the Republican side, the internal conflicts are not ideologic