How Hizballah Went from a Lebanese Militia to a Regional Power
The managing partner for Iran’s network of proxy armies.
August 25, 2021
To Many Arabs, the Fall of Tunisia’s Islamist Rulers Is Good News
Only Palestinians and Westerners haven’t been disillusioned.
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia, where demonstrations succeeded in toppling a long-ruling dictatorship. Unlike elsewhere, where uprisings were either repressed or led to bloody civil wars, the revolution in the North African country seemed to be a success story, leading to reasonably democratic elections that brought the Islamist Ennahda party to power. But last month, the president removed the prime minister and his entire cabinet from office, and called up the military to back up the move—ending Ennahda’s rule. Khaled Abu Toameh examines the generally positive reaction to the coup throughout the Arab world:
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To Many Arabs, the Fall of Tunisia’s Islamist Rulers Is Good News
Only Palestinians and Westerners haven’t been disillusioned.
Gender Transitioning for Minors Amounts to Dangerous Medical Experimentation on Children
When will, wants, and desires trump reality and science.
At the City University of New York, Hatred of Israel Threatens to Destroy the Faculty Union
Even in contemporary higher education, it’s possible for anti-Israel zealots to go too far.
Preserving the Remnants of Jewish Mosul
A Muslim historian and the lost Jewish neighborhood of ancient Nineveh.