Middle East & North Africa

Season 1 Episode 7: What’s an “Arab Christian?”

Richard Ghazal sat down with Dr. Franck Salameh, Professor of Middle East history, culture, and political thought at Boston College…

Horseshoe Theory is Now Reality

Since the end of WWII, support for Israel has been a shared consensus on the center-left and right

Hamas and History

A striking feature of the news media coverage of the current Gaza war has been its failure to relate this present conflict to its historical context

The Abraham Accords Are Not Dead

Rumors of the demise of the Abraham Accords have been greatly exaggerated

Season 1 Episode 6: Copts & The Suffering of the Saints

Richard Ghazal sat down with Dr. Samuel Tadros of the Hudson Institute and Mariam Wahba of The Foundation for Defense…

Is Israel Committing War Crimes?

Israel has been accused of committing war crimes, but is it true?

Season 1 Episode 5: Lebanon’s Message

Richard Ghazal sat down with Bishop Gregory Mansour of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron in Brooklyn, NY, and…

Constitutional Crisis in the Holy Land

Israel’s democracy is threatened from without by Hamas and within by its lack of a constitution.

Hamas, Israel, hostages
Hamas Must be Delegitimized Even As it is Destroyed

The hostage negotiations, while welcomed, gave Hamas a victory by affirming its status as the political leader in Gaza. No more. It’s time to kill it.

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