Akeel Abbas, a scholar at the Washington Institute, focuses on national and religious identities, modernity, and democratization in the Middle East. More than twenty years after the end of Saddam ...

Iraq has survived invasions, occupation, and the rise of ISIS - but one of its greatest threats is neither political nor ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died recently at the age of 84, could be accurately described by one word: ...

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado faces criticism that she is exaggerating threats posed by Venezuela’s leader to ...

What emerged was a shared emotional landscape—a bridge between Tehran and Baghdad—built not through geopolitics, but through ...

Exposed phobias show dictators ruling through fear while facing own terrors in the dark behind shut doors watched by loyal ...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Western countries must be held accountable for supplying and equipping former Iraqi ...

Years, Abbas Akhavan’s current exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (UBC), loosely ...