At the start of the Egyptian revolution last January, over 20 percent of Egyptians said they would vote for Ayman Nour, according to one poll. Unfortunately, in April of this year, the Election Committee prohibited Dr. Nour, along with nine other candidates, from entering the election.

Just as scholarship requires generalization, the “monolith” argument is a polemical tool that can be used in any context as a defensive ploy.

This last year in Syria demonstrates that although the international world’s bark is louder, its bite is still weak.

These two mass killings demonstrated how random, single-event atrocities receive disproportionate attention in the public sphere.

Most of the debate on the conference revolved around two subjects: anti-Semitism and free speech.

Like all non-scientific dogma, “Orientalism” is a truth within itself without truth.

Human Rights Watch recently referred to Iraq as a “budding police state,” though the “budding” in that phrase seems more like “flourishing” by the day.

Amid the hysterical promotion of sanctions as a diplomatic panacea our politicians and their gullible constituents conveniently forget that they are square pegs in a world densely packed with round holes.

For a generation supposedly defined by the War on Terror, our generation’s response to military events now follows a very apathetic and predictable path.

Even worse than the shocking shortsightedness of Israeli civil society were domestic and international analysts’ gullible somersaults to dig their heads deeper in the ground with more desperate and contrived justifications for the exchange.