On the surface Israel and Turkey have shared quite a bit in common as peripheral Middle Eastern countries. Neither have a majority Arab population, both are popular tourist destinations where one can...
Hamas rockets are far from the most sophisticated, or deadly, of weapons. But the psychological impact they have should not be dismissed or disregarded. The Iranian-state media network Press TV often...
by Anna Lekas Miller On Monday night, Egypt brokered a tentative truce between Israeli and Palestinian factions—who, after five days of cross-border clashes that killed 6 Palestinians and injured...
Watching “The Arab Spring” unfold has been a remarkable and awe-inspiring experience. Something that was once impossible to imagine suddenly became inevitable as Tunisia sparked a revolutionary...
Three weeks ago, a guest speaker lectured to our Public Diplomacy class on diplomacy and Web 2.0. A leader of her own diplomatic marketing company focused on web networking, she led us through a...
And then the conversation turned to the war. The next war. I can’t remember how we rounded that corner, how we hit against that brick wall. It was last Friday, a beautiful evening, and we sat on a...