Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, departed Tehran on January 16, 1979 to seek medical treatment and to escape…

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, departed Tehran on January 16, 1979 to seek medical treatment and to escape…
“Where you stand depends on where you sit” – an oft-heard epigram used to describe negotiations. And it’s true –…
Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard delivered over 800 highly classified documents to the Israeli government over a 17-month…
The July 2016 attempted coup d’état in Turkey was the latest in a series of military interventions in the nation’s…
Egypt’s agriculture has always depended on the water of the Nile; the river’s perennial floods, while critical in replenishing the…
He was a brilliant scholar who focused on the Middle East and whose books were widely read by Arabists. His…
Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt is best known for her role as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1982 to…
A 2010 Time Magazine article rated it as the third worst environmental catastrophe in history, right behind Chernobyl and Bhopal. As Operation…
When oil was discovered in the Arabian Peninsula during the 1930’s and 40’s, the full extent of its impact on…
In January and May 1974, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger engaged in “shuttle diplomacy,” a term coined by the members…