The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons.

Hay's mission was to establish civil administration as the British took control of Iraq from Ottoman authorities.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

Mead urges Washington to “enter into deep strategic conversations” with each of these powers, so as to start building effective partnerships.  The problem is, we’ve already tried that, with most of them.

It is culture that creates economics, and not the other way around.

The second edition of Beverley Milton-Edwards's textbook on the Middle East, though updated, is as mediocre as the first edition.

Four hundred years after the battles of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, and Vienna on September 11-12, 1683, these dates still rankle in the jihadist mind. For it was through these battles that the navies and armies of the West threw back almost fatal attacks on their civilization. In 1571,...

Stuart A. Cohen's work stands the test of time and provides a handy reference for what remains an understudied period.