After several weeks of travel, I am finally back home. I had a lot of interesting feedback to my essay about my visit to Tel Aviv and Jerus...

An emotional journey with many fleeting thoughts about what to expect … a twinge of fear, of understanding, of anticipation and a touch of s...

I have always had some conflicted feelings about Benazir Bhutto. She always came across to me as a strong woman who spoke well and very eloq...

This is a truly important book for anyone wishing to understand fully the Arab / Palestinian - Israeli conflict. It sheds tremendous ligh...

I heard about this book from an interview of Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air with the author Hisham Mater. In the interview Mater talk...

This article was the very last article I wrote for MWU, it was never published. The site was taken down around this time.  Reflections...

This is easily the best book I can recommend to anyone on the Iraq war. Anthony Shadid, a third generation Arab American, who speaks flue...

Sudan has been tearing itself apart for many years now. The war between the SPLA (Sudan’s People Liberation Army) and the Government was re...

Book Review: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?: Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present by Galal Amin The social history of E...

Normalization would have been a good example to defeat the rejectionist ideology of both sides The last time the first day of Ramadan and ...

Lila Abu Lughod, an Arab American woman, lived among the Awlad Ali tribes of the North West of Egypt for two years. Veiled Sentiments is ...

Niloofar Haeri is an Iranian American; she studied Arabic Language in the USA and went to Egypt to further her studies. On arrival she re...

I was only seven years old then, but I still remember the frightening sound of the Israeli war planes up in the sky and the sound of the di...

This is a phenomenal work, it presents the intersection of knowledge from three different dimensions that rarely come together, especiall...