Informed Comment

Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) has sometimes been called “the Shakespeare of the East.” The comparison is just

Iran grapples with the collapse of its key regional ally. Tehran lost up to 50 billion dollars invested over a decade,

The cleavage threatens the post-conflict architecture, compromise the humanitarian response, and cast a shadow over Western coherence

Pardoning Netanyahu for his high crimes and felonies would mean Israel acquiescing to a Bibi dictatorship

And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d- “I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Tacitus, shared how Nero “polluted himself by every lawful or lawless indulgence.”

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many.