The brilliant and incisive Palestinian American professor, Dr Ibrahim Abu Lughod, was a mentor who taught me some invaluable lessons about politics and history. While he was a profoundly political being, he was at heart a historian.

Much ink has been spilled before and since the US midterm elections, with most of it missing the mark.

Future historians writing about America’s Middle East foreign policy during the last quarter century should include a lengthy chapter entitled “American Hubris”.Hubris is our fatal flaw.

This election will be a nail-biter, with polls suggesting that Democrats will have difficulty maintaining their slim control of both houses of Congress.

This past week, a major US daily paper ran a lengthy feature article reporting on France’s repatriating to Algeria 24 skulls reputed to be the decapitated heads of Algerian resistance fighters.

During the past month, Israel has held 800 Palestinians under administrative detention orders, expelled several Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem, seized more Arab-owned land from areas around Hebron and in the Jordan Valley, and instituted a lockdown of many Palestinian

In less than one month, Israel will hold its fifth national elections in four years.

When trying to understand how Democrats lost white working-class voters, four stories come to mind:- In 1984, both President Ronald Reagan, who was running for reelection, and his challenger, former vice president Walter Mondale, appeared before the National Italian American Foun

Several economic, social and political issues are important to the November midterm elections, but fundamentally the elections are about which party and candidate voters feel cares most about them and has solutions that address their most basic needs.Considering this, shockwaves