Category: News
274 Articles
- News
Lebanon: Bush's Moment of Truth
President Bush finds himself today looking at a potential legacy that includes a world in which anti-Americanism will have increased exponentially among America’s friends and…
November 4, 2013
- News
The “Guns of Lebanon 2006” are NOT the “Guns of August 1914”
The beginnings of World War I in the summer of 1914 are seen by some analysts as similar to the outbreak of fighting in Lebanon and Israel this summer. The trigger for the…
November 4, 2013
- News
U.S. Plan for Lebanon: Flawed and Dangerous
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented the American plan for a “Three-Part Comprehensive Settlement” for the fighting in Lebanon and northern Israel. In her statement…
November 4, 2013
- News
Strong Lebanese Army Needed? Problematic Historic Precedents
The Lebanese Army is mentioned frequently in proposals for bringing an end to the fighting in South Lebanon. Such proposals tend to ignore the historical experience of the…
November 4, 2013
- News
Muslims Must Reform or Be Left Behind
Affirmations of brotherhood and lamentations over the elusiveness of a long-sought fraternity are two perennial themes of modern Muslim rhetoric. It seems that no summit would be…
November 4, 2013
- News
9/11: Five Years Later
When I grew up in Brooklyn, Islam and Muslims were invisible to me. When the department chair in graduate school suggested I take a course in Islam in the late 1960s, I“…
November 4, 2013
- News
Risks of a Conflict with Iran
The Associated Press has reported that last weekend’s talks between Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani and the EU foreign Minister Javier Solana were constructive…
November 4, 2013
- News
Benedict XVI and Islam
The primary purpose and message of Benedict XVI’s address in Regensburg, Germany was not about Islam, referred to in only four paragraphs of his eight- page lecture. And,…
November 4, 2013
- News
- REVIEW
The Future of Muslim-Catholic Relations
At the invitation of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a…
November 4, 2013
- News
Iconoclasm – Just a Religious Idea?
Any study of iconoclasm is premised upon a bifurcation, that is, that iconoclasm is a historical event or that iconoclasm is a cultural attitude or idea. As a historical event,…
November 4, 2013