Fouad Ajami

Revelations and events of recent weeks have done much to buttress Israel’s narrative of the Middle East. First came the WikiLeaks releases that laid…

The recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen represent an “avalanche on the autocracies of the Arab world,'' according to renowned Middle East…

The passage of Obamacare confirms Fouad Ajami’s characterization of Barack Obama as America’s first “cosmopolitan” president – i.e., the first to see…

Why, just two weeks into a 209-week term, assess a new American president's record on so esoteric a subject as the Middle East and Islam? In Barack…

The rapid decline of US President Barack Obama’s popularity – the most precipitous in recent history – will delight those here put off by his…

The notion that truth is the first casualty of war finds expression in the fog of the current Gaza conflict - a truth masked by oft-repeated cliches…

For those inclined to see the workings of divine providence in human history, the special affinity of the American people for Israel provides a happy…

As the days pass since the car bombing in the southern suburbs of Damascus, furious speculation is continuing as to who was responsible. No…

In his new book Defending Identity, Natan Sharansky once again mines his nine years in Soviet prisons for crucial insights on the major issues of the…

As everyone knows by now, Israel and Syria recently began conducting indirect negotiations via Turkish mediators. After a brief hiatus, the talks…

There could hardly have been more agreement between President George Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at their White House press conference. They…

Lights versus lifeSir, - Cutting power to traffic lights, indisputably life-saving devices, is bad enough. But leaving the afflicted intersections…

Are we Jews too sensitive to what non-Jews say about us? The Haggada, which we just read on Seder night, hints at the answer. The telling of the…

Now that Cindy Sheehan turns out to be a disaster for the anti-war movement - most Americans are not about to follow a left-wing radical who insists…