The idea that the Middle East is becoming more liberal may sound counterintuitive. Nearly 50 years ago, a revolution in Iran dismantled the country’s secular order and ushered in an absolutist ...

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The Maldives is planning to partner with an established fishing championship for a 2027 event.

I was a freshman in college when my dad died. An Iranian Jew who came to the United States four years before the Islamic ...

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Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is true.   To understand this ...