Even though Dubai’s boom has turned to bust, the emirate known for its gaudy exuberance, which comedian Jon Stewart once called ‘what happens when Saudi […]

The Iraq War is still hot in the northern city of Mosul (pop. 1.7 mn.) , where 10-12 car bombs still are detonated every day. […]

Below is a statement on Iran that I and others are hoping will be adopted in Washington as a way forward. Any of my readers […]

Ayman al-Zawahiri attacked Barack Obama in a video released on the internet on Tuesday. Fox News reprinted the whole transcript here. I’m a little bit […]

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that the Iraq parliament’s Committee on Security and Defense voted in favor of the Iraqi-US security agreement. That committee is headed […]

McClatchy has published an English translation of the draft security agreement between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration. Leila Fadel of McClatchy’s reads the […]

Vice President: n. Political chief in charge of committing vice. The official can fulfill his public duties by committing a wide range of sins or […]

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Kurdish press complaining that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has been busily creating his own tribally […]

Gitanjali Bakshi writes in a guest op-ed for IC: After months of slow but substantive progress, recent developments in Occupied Palestine, Israel and the U.S. […]