September 19, 2014
Editor's Preface My first conversations with Louise Shelley, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the...
blog
August 28, 2014
Last week, the U.S. government announced that it had completed destruction of Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. This complex...
Opinion
August 24, 2014
One has to hand it to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Since the outbreak of what was initially a popular revolt against his regime in...
Art
April 7, 2014
Tammam-Azzam.jpg Artist's Introduction There is no war in Syria. There is a revolution. Art cannot save the country. Nothing can save Syria...
blog
March 6, 2014
This past week, it was reported that the Obama administration considered using cyber warfare – computer viruses, worms, Trojans – to attack...
Opinion
February 16, 2014
Nine years ago this past Friday, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and twenty-two others were killed in a massive explosion on...
Opinion
January 11, 2014
As Lebanon accrues more carnage to its violent CV—most recently with the deadly bombings in downtown Beirut and the southern suburb of...
Opinion
September 11, 2013
The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible U.S...
Opinion
August 28, 2013
The mainstream media headlines, with slight variations, predict that an attack against Syrian targets by US missiles could occur as early...