It has been almost a year now since President Obama set out for Cairo to deliver what has been seen as one of the largest overtures by the US to publicly engage the Middle East. Unfortunately, despite the high hopes that this new administration garnered and the continuous efforts of high level American officials to put an end to this crisis, there is little fruit to bear on the ground. Read more

As the Obama administration continues to push for the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, one of the main questions still looming is who will ultimately represent the Palestinian people. Read more

Once again, as has happened every spring for years running, the debate over whether the ethnic clashes against the Armenians in the break up of the Ottoman Empire amounted to genocide has made it into the US political arena for Congress to weigh in. Read more

Although Turkish-Israeli relations have gone through several periods of ups and downs during the past six decades of bilateral relations, the rift between the two nations has never raised so much concern on both sides as it has during the past year. Read more

Although it may be presumptuous to predict the future of the Middle East and what kind of changes we should expect by 2020, the political volatility of the region and the nature of the conflicts that have been raging for decades have created certain facts on the ground that cannot be changed, short of catastrophic events. Read more