Middle East
Letter from Tel Aviv
‘There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor/ I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm/…
General paralysis
America has let Egypt’s old military oligarchs take hold again. Must it carry on paying for them, too?
Love and betrayal
The title of Charles Cumming’s seventh novel is both a nod to the comfortable polarities of Cold War and also…
Kidnaps and killings in Cameron’s happy place
A few days ago I went to a talk about Syria; one of those events for the concerned layman, in…
Absent friends
Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them
Armageddon awaits
Sunni vs Shia, Saudi Arabia vs Iran. A new great war has begun
Father Paolo’s personal peace process
As Syria’s second peace conference looms, and we prepare ourselves for a lot of hot air drifting over from Geneva,…
Protect the Christians
The Middle East’s most persecuted people need our support
Wrong track
So many of the world’s troubles, even today, can be traced back to the empire-builders of 1914 – and the peace-makers of 1919
High Life
This Christmas our thoughts need to be with our fellow Christians who are being threatened in the Bible lands. No…
High life
New York Libyans are among the most civilised people on earth. When a Russian hooker (I assume) killed a Libyan…
How to run a revolution
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
Arab Spring
Two hundred and forty-years ago next Tuesday, Thomas Gray was buried in his mother’s grave in Stoke Poges churchyard. In…
The good Iranian
If President Hassan Rouhani is anything like his mentor, peace has another chance
The real Arab Spring
Middle East protest has its roots not in Islam but in frustrated enterprise
