Can it happen here?

Mainstream media have been sharing the news that Israeli forces have seized Beaufort Castle , a Crusader-era high point and fortification on...

The Guardian's soft spoken reporter Will Christou spells out the shock in the Lebanese capital when Israel bombed central Beirut, killin...

Of course the US/Israeli war on Iran is getting most of our focus in this country. Thanks to the Orange Toddler's folly, we'll all b...

The United States is not only failing to "win" but also actively losing Donald Trump's glorious new iteration of a Middle East...

The Post reports: The exodus from Lebanon began last week after back-to-back assassinations targeted a Hezbollah commander near Beirut and...

The headline reads: U.S.-Brokered Talks Seek to Ease Tensions on Israel-Lebanon Border . I have no idea whether this is a meaningful develop...

The U.S. policy elite, usually of both parties, hates Iran with a recurrent, near-maniacal, fury that is not shared by most of us. I thoug...

This past week I was shocked to learn that my friend Albert Naccache (pictured above enjoying his boat on the Mediterranean) had died in his...

Reproduced with permission from the writer: Tina from Beirut. Dear Friends, On August 13, it was the first anniversary of the killing of...

Tina sends these from Beirut.

A Lebanese friend points to this first ever gay rights demonstration in Beirut. Check out the video [ad may play first; 1:38]: Nice to see t...

Joe Biden, while effectively crushing the tiresome Ms. Palin last night, had one really odd moment that left me jaw dropped. He seemed to b...

The Babylon & Beyond blog at the Los Angeles Times passes on this picture along with news that Helem, a Lebanese organization dedicated...

Refugees shopping in an almost all-Iraqi area of downtown Amman, Jordan. Photo: Jon Elmer 2005. Last summer when we had just returned from ...

Great. If Seymour Hersh is right, and he usually has been, it will come out after the next Al-Qaeda attack in the U.S. that it was planned ...

Lebanese journalist Rami Khouri wants to know: The North Korean precedent is very relevant to the Middle East because the United State...

Photo from Raising Yousuf, This cogent comparison of U.S. policies toward the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Lebanon was offered by an...

Demonstrator holds poster of showing speaker of parliament Nabi Berri of the Amal Party, Christian General Michel Aoun, and Hezbollah leader...

(bintlouisa writes from her country, giving a view of the background of ongoing opposition demonstrations very different from that in the U....

When I was a child in the late 1950s I attended a summer camp deep in the New England woods. The people who ran this oasis of privilege were...