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Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and ...

The overthrow of other dictators in the region has led not to democracy but to terror and upheaval. Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle ...

Mr. Levy is the president of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former peace negotiator for Israel. At the U.N. General Assembly in September, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ...

Hamas is signaling that it is prepared to defend the Gaza Strip against Israeli forces, according to a Washington-based think tank. On October 7, Hamas militants stormed from the blockaded Gaza Strip ...

A Brooklyn public school is under fire after one of its teachers displayed a map showing Middle East geography that left out Israel, angering parents and other New Yorkers across the city, according ...

I’m not the first – nor will I be the last– to argue this: it’s time to decolonize not only our lands but also our language. The phrase “Middle East” looks harmless on a page, yet it smuggles in an ...

The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, who led the powerful militant group, Hezbollah, for over 30 years, has been a shocking development in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The killing decimates the ...