NEED TO KNOW ISRAEL A Messy Do-Over Israeli President Reuven Rivlin delivered a rare rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu in […]

NEED TO KNOW TUNISIA The Art of Listening The Tunisian presidential election is heating up. That’s important because voters are deciding more […]

NEED TO KNOW LEBANON Where to Start? The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper in Lebanon, recently ran an edition that contained no […]

NEED TO KNOW IRAQ & SYRIA Exponential Radicalization Thousands of displaced wives and children of the vanquished Islamic State now live in […]

NEED TO KNOW TURKEY Missile Diplomacy US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria are in retreat. As the BBC explained, the troops pulled […]

NEED TO KNOW IRAQ Bombs and Potholes Sangar Khaleel was a Mosul resident who became a fixer – a journalistic term referring […]

NEED TO KNOW SYRIA From the Rubble The Syrian Civil War was hard on Aleppo. “In the Old City’s labyrinthine markets, where […]

NEED TO KNOW MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA Careful What You Wish For A power-sharing agreement recently enacted between the Sudanese military […]

NEED TO KNOW SAUDI ARABIA What You See… Saudi Arabia is selling permanent residency status for $213,000. A one-year residency option costs […]

NEED TO KNOW ISRAEL AND PALESTINE What Money Can’t Buy US President Donald Trump is “very fond” of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud […]