It appears that we may be going to war against the Islamic State (IS). I use the word “appears” advisedly, because appearances may be deceiving. It is true that we have already bombed almost 200 IS targets.

My mother was fond of saying: “If you want someone to hear you, you must first listen to them” — know them, understand the questions they are asking and be sensitive to their concerns. This way, she would say, “you will be able to speak with people and no

Almost daily, one is faced with difficult choices one is challenged to confront over a range of foreign and domestic policy concerns. One must decide whether to stand firm on principle or negotiate and compromise; whether to push for everything one wants or work to achieve what

This is the year in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Bill.  Instead of being able to reflect on the distance we have travelled since 1964, the horrific events unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, only served to remind us how far we sti

With Nouri Al Maliki agreeing to step aside in favour of Haider Al Abadi, Iraq may have passed its first hurdle on the way to forming the kind of government that will be needed to defeat the Islamic State (IS) and save the country from further conflict and fragmentation. Passing

Bombs stopped falling on Gaza for three days, allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return to what had once been their homes and neighbourhoods. For many, this brief respite provided no relief since they emerged from their shelters only to find that the places they k

This past week the Arab American Institute (AAI) released its third biannual poll of American attitudes towards Arabs and Muslims. Conducted by Zogby Analytics, 1,100 likely voters were surveyed nationwide.

I can only imagine the horror in Gaza today as Israel intensifies its assault of that overcrowded, impoverished strip. It is a continuing nightmare story of pain and loss, of trauma and devastation.

“...we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”  — Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel (1969)    “They are not like us.