Islam

The Prince of Persia

Machiavelli’s got nothing on Iran’s Supreme Leader.

BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JULY 21, 2011

Underground and in the Closet

The state of the gay Middle East.

BY DAVID KENNER | JUNE 15, 2011

Who Tried to Kill Ali Abdullah Saleh?

The hidden feud behind the revolution in Yemen.

BY SARAH PHILLIPS | JUNE 13, 2011

Too Big to Fail?

Is Syria's repressive dictatorship really so crucial to Mideast peace and stability that we can't let it fail? The Obama administration still seems to think so.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 12, 2011

Think Again: Al Qaeda

The world's most notorious terrorist organization was never quite what Americans thought it was -- and Osama bin Laden's death doesn't mean that it's down for the count.

BY DANIEL BYMAN | MAY 3, 2011

Osama the Icon

The global cult of the terrorist mastermind.

MAY 2, 2011

Veil of Ignorance

Have we gotten the headscarf all wrong?

BY LEILA AHMED | MAY/JUNE 2011

Assad's Survival Strategy

The Syrian president is relying on a blend of repression, promises of reform, and anxiety about what comes next to defuse an unexpected challenge to his rule.

BY GARY GAMBILL | APRIL 6, 2011

Feuding Brothers

In the battle over the Muslim Brotherhood's future, the United States should engage with the good guys.

BY ED HUSAIN | APRIL 5, 2011

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Conflict

A brewing crisis between Israel and Hamas threatens to derail the Middle East's promising reform movement.

BY HUSSEIN IBISH | MARCH 23, 2011

The Islamic Republic of Chechnya

Why is the Kremlin-imposed leader of this republic sounding so much like the militants he's meant to be cracking down on?

BY TOM PARFITT | MARCH 15, 2011

Saudi Arabia Strikes Back

The House of Saud's intervention in Bahrain is a slap in the face of the United States, and a setback for peace on the island.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS SEZNEC | MARCH 14, 2011

Peter King's Witch Hunt

Congress's anti-terrorism hearings risk tarring the entire Muslim American community.

BY SUHAIL A. KHAN | MARCH 9, 2011

Parliament to the Rescue

Egypt's constitutional reforms don't do enough to break from the presidential system that has enabled the country's authoritarian past.

BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | MARCH 1, 2011

Cairo It Ain't

Pro-democracy protesters have started something big in Yemen. But are they going to like how it ends?

BY HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS | FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Blood Relations

The families of suspected Islamist guerrillas in the North Caucasus have always faced harassment from Russian security forces. Now a shadowy vigilante group has started targeting them as well.

BY TOM PARFITT | FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Crackdown in Bahrain

Sectarian and hardline politics have brought protesters out into streets of this once quiet Gulf nation. And as the bodycount rises, the United States should be gravely concerned.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS SEZNEC | FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The Ripple Effect

From Algeria to Iran and the countries in between, a look at how revolution fever is spreading across the Middle East.

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Voice of Terror

Anwar al-Awlaki has emerged as the most persuasive supporter of jihad for Muslims in the West.

BY ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS | JANUARY 18, 2011

Anatomy of an Autocracy

Tunisia's deposed president once swept to power with bold promises of reform. What went wrong?

BY CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER | JANUARY 14, 2011

The General Wants Back into His Labyrinth

Pakistan's former military leader has announced he's returning from exile and wants his old job back. Here's what he would do differently -- and why he wouldn't want Hamid Karzai as his counterpart next door.

INTERVIEW BY LAURA WELLS | JANUARY 6, 2011

Epiphanies from Tariq Ramadan

The Swiss-born grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder made his career trying to prove that the West and Islam, secularism and belief, can coexist peacefully. With his George W. Bush-era travel ban revoked, Tariq Ramadan has now journeyed back to the United States, where his faith in faith has been put to the test by a painful year for American Muslims.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

Al Qaeda's M&A Strategy

Is franchising a successful way to build a global terror network?

BY DANIEL BYMAN | DECEMBER 7, 2010

Obama's Asian Tour

Washington may have just gotten a lot less friendly for the president, but he still has plenty of fans in Asia. A look at where he's going, who he's meeting, and what it means.

BY JARED MONDSCHEIN, ANDREW SWIFT | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The End of Christianity in the Middle East?

The brutal bombing of a church in Baghdad may be the final straw for this 2,000 year old minority community.

BY EDEN NABY, JAMSHEED K. CHOKSY | NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The Supreme Leader's Not-So-Grand Tour

Ayatollah Khamenei's latest bid to shore up his religious credentials was a miserable failure.

BY ART KELLER | NOVEMBER 2, 2010

An Unnecessary War

Afghanistan used to be the central front in the war against terrorism. Now it's a distraction from it.

BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 29, 2010

Killing the Messenger

Arundhati Roy was right to call India's presence in Kashmir a military occupation -- and throwing writers in jail won't solve the problem.

BY ANUJ CHOPRA | OCTOBER 28, 2010

It's the Occupation, Stupid

Extensive research into the causes of suicide terrorism proves Islam isn't to blame -- the root of the problem is foreign military occupations.

BY ROBERT A. PAPE | OCTOBER 18, 2010

Hezbollah's Boy Scouts

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted upon his arrival in Beirut by a rapturous crowd. Thanassis Cambanis takes us inside the organization that teaches Lebanon's children to love the Islamic Revolution.

BY THANASSIS CAMBANIS | OCTOBER 13, 2010