When you share a printer with others in your office, you also tend to share interesting news items and reports. Such was the case with my CFR colleague, Michael Levi, and I with the State Department’s ...

The major in Middle East studies provides students with the opportunity to deeply explore this region’s historical, political, social and cultural complexity. Broadly conceived, this geographical ...

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For more than a century, archaeologists and historians have attempted to confirm beliefs of both Christians and Jews about their common past using the Old Testament (OT) and New Testaments (NT) as ...

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L. Carl Brown, a historian of the modern Near East and North Africa with special emphasis on the Arab world, died in Mitchellville, Maryland, on April 8. He was 91. "The late Professor Brown was the ...

John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020), 968 pp., $35.00. IF ONE had to come up with a single sentence to sum up all of the ...