Across Lebanon and the region, Arab leaders see Hezbollah for what it is: An arm of Iranian influence waging a sectarian battle in the heart of the Middle East.

Across Lebanon and the region, Arab leaders see Hezbollah for what it is: An arm of Iranian influence waging a sectarian battle in the heart of the Middle East.

The majority of Arab civil society may celebrate Bush's election rebuke, but Arab reformers may find they have missed their best opportunity, while dictators and theocrats seize theirs.

Is the West racist toward Arabs and Muslims? In the United States, the answer is both no and yes.

Promoting democracy in the Middle East will not be high on John Kerry'sagenda, but for the first time in half a century, democracy is the talk of the Arab world.

The liberal movement in the Arab world today is weaker than its predecessors in Japan and Germany, but the prospects for war and peace depend, critically, on whether it can achieve a better fate.

United States has refrained from lending its weight to democratization in the Arab world, but we won't know what we can achieve until we try.

For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...