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...

The Muslim world needs a model of feminism that is not the 1960sversion we all remember but a globalized version of 19th-century feminism.

Oil hashit U.S. $43.94 a barrel, an all-time record. Americans are now paying U.S. $400 million a day for imported oil.

Nowhere is the prospect of a decent Iraq more menacing than next door in oil-rich Saudi Arabia.

Sanctions will not persuade the Assad regime to surrender power, and talk about an embargo on luxury goods is a cruel joke.

The U.S. failure to support the uprisings that President Bush himself had called for remains a source of suspicion and resentment to this day, particularly among Iraq's Shias who were massacred by the thousands by Saddam while the US stood by.

Iranian outbursts towards the United States and Israel are nothing new, but the Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington surprised many people. Iran's animosity toward Saudi Arabia, however, should have surprised no one.

President Obama is likely to pay a real political cost for his important message about the freedom of religion enshrined in the Constitution, in the context of the planned construction of an Islamic community center near ground zero.