U.S. cultural policy will become key as wars throughout the Middle East and North Africa give way to reconstructions.

Donald Trump’s cabinet has managed to construct a pretty sound approach to Russia—perhaps despite the Commander in Chief.

The world isn’t prepared for the coming surge of people displaced by droughts, floods, crop failures, and other weather-driven phenomenon.

Mahmoud Abbas’s role in Palestinian politics was forged in the bloody years of the Second Intifada, when he became the anti-Arafat. But the events of those years also foreshadow the indecision and timidity that have plagued him since.

Al-Hadba‘a, the Hunchback Minaret adjoining the al-Nuri Mosque, gave Mosul its famous sobriquet. Destroyed by the Islamic State, the iconic monument is now being remembered for what it never was.

The election of Donald Trump is a manifestation of our society’s inability to cope with our changing times.

What the critics get wrong about RFE-RL’s Persian language news service, Radio Farda.

Georgia is caught between Russia’s destructive designs and the West’s lukewarm regard.

A recession today would be like an earthquake rocking a political edifice that is already showing cracks.

It’s business as usual in Egypt: The Sisi government frees a billionaire imprisoned for a sensational murder, for reasons only known to itself.