A Bipolar Gulf
The Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Post Tagged with: "Iran"
Secret Cyber Wars Are Here To Stay
A revolutionary computer virus that shut down Iran's nuclear centrifuges opens the door to all sorts of scary possibilities.
The Corruption of Language
Shariar Mandanipour on dissidence, censorship, and the freedom to write in Iran
Prophetic Words at Harvard for China’s Policies
A look at China's foreign policy in the Middle East.
Helping Iran’s Condemned
What hand-wringing westerners can do about the unjust sentence for Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr.
To Turkey through Palestine
Sam Finegold explores the future of US relations with Turkey and Palestine
Babbling Towards Beirut: Lebanon Undone
Upon coming to from a nitrous oxide-induced coma this Monday, my dental surgeon told me that I’d been babbling endlessly about Lebanon as my wisdom teeth met their end. Such is the life of a Middle East political columnist. Any other week, this anecdote would have been fruitless. I don’t pontificate about Lebanon all that often. But by an unfortunate [...]
Cold Turkey?
By the conventional wisdom of the day, Turkey is hot. While America is caricatured as ‘empire on the decline’, Europe as ‘the shrinking continent’, and Iran as ‘menace in the Middle East’, Turkey has swept the world stage as a posterchild of win-win international politics. To its credit, this quasi-European, quasi-Middle Eastern regional bridge state has been able to do [...]
Retroactive Diary of Qureshi Forum
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, foreign minister of Pakistan, at the Institute of Politics
Racial discrimination in jury selection still widespread
Thinking about my post from last night, I realized how strange you might think me for assuming that there’s greater risk to liberty from police and prosecutors misbehaving than there is from letting a certain number of criminals get off on “technicalities.” Thankfully, with impeccable timing, we got this report today from the New York Times, summarizing a study by [...]
The New Miranda Decision and Souter’s Harvard Speech
With the predictable 5-4 lineup, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that, in order to exclude from evidence incriminating statements to the police, criminal suspects must have unambiguously invoked their right to remain silent. The case essentially asked, what constitutes a waiver of one’s Miranda rights? Does sitting silent, unresponsive, for nearly three hours, as did the suspect, Van Chester Thompkins, [...]
