This is the fifth in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. CAIRO...
Apr 12, 2013
Q & A: How a revolution opened the door for Middle East extremists
BY LAUREN MADOW Chibli Mallat is a visiting professor at Yale Law School, as well as a professor...
Mar 22, 2013
Q & A: US foreign policy lessons and failures along the Sunni-Shia divide
BY LAUREN MADOW Reza Aslan is a professor of religious studies at Drew University and a senior adjunct...
Mar 21, 2013
Bahrain’s royal family has history of favoring Sunni minority
BY JOSEPH A KÉCHICHIAN An uprising that began as a challenge to monarchic rule has become a largely...
Mar 20, 2013
Saddam Hussein’s legacy of sectarian division in Iraq
BY JOSEPH A. KÉCHICHIAN American scholar of the Persian Gulf region Joseph Kéchichian — whose analysis is presented...
Mar 20, 2013
US finds Sunni-Shia rift difficult to navigate
WASHINGTON — A decade after the United States’ invasion of Iraq ignited a season of deadly bloodletting between Sunni...
Mar 18, 2013
Sunni and Shia divided in Iraq, the land of Cain and Abel
By Jane Arraf DAKUK, Iraq — In the rugged landscape of northern Iraq where biblical tradition holds that...
Mar 18, 2013
Bahrain: 30 days in jail for one tweet
MANAMA, Bahrain — Human rights activist Sayed Yousif al-Muhafdha had no idea who followed him on Twitter. That is,...
Mar 18, 2013
In Bahrain, a growing Sunni-Shia rift
MANAMA, Bahrain — Over the past month, tens of thousands of mostly Shia demonstrations have marched and rallied for...
Mar 18, 2013
Saudi youth fighting against Assad regime in Syria
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Following a circuitous route from here up through Turkey or Jordan and then crossing...
Mar 13, 2013