The house lights come up. The stage lights flash for effect. The ten-piece band kicks into high gear and strikes up an ebullient major-key melody. The genteel seated crowd of about a thousand claps...
Professor Homa Katouzian is an specialist on Iran, teaching at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Trained as an economist, Dr. Katouzian has a broad range of interests...
November 4th marked two key ceremonial activities in Israel – the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, and the subsequent hand-wringing over his legacy. Rabin was killed 14 years ago by...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Fighting in built-up areas, street fighting, urban combat, call it what you will, is the real horror of modern...
This Middle Eastern country likes nothing more than to have its back against the wall. Accustomed to having the world against it, the country has dealt with repeated and, at times, legitimate fear of...
It has long been assumed that peace is in the national interest of Israel. A secure peace, of course, but nevertheless, peace and acceptance from the neighbors would be what any country wants,...
By all accounts, the new American administration is moving at a frenetic pace in trying to break the seemingly interminable deadlock between Israel and the Arab world. Recent press reports suggest...
Only can time tell how Netanyahu's decision of committing to the Two-State Solution in regard to the Israel/Palestine conflict will work out. Yes, Bibi imposes very strict conditions of setting up an...
I'm not going to make any cute jokes about how “the revolution will be tweeted,” mostly because they have already been made. Also, because the most inspiring thing about the protests in Iran...
The 12th of June 2009 saw Iran’s tenth presidential election get underway with Iranians turning out in record numbers. As someone who decided to vote in one of the many polling stations made...
