A recent article from the FAO Journal answers affirmatively, and attempts to identify mechanisms to “defeat Islamists at the ballot.”

Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Tamara Wittes briefed the foreign press yesterday on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in

Barack Obama responded to a student’s question in Istanbul in April 2009 with an interesting comment on the pace of political change.

The U.S Administration has seen a significant rise in its popularity during the first year of the administration of President Barack Obama in Egypt and other Arab countries, after it

Did Gazans starve less after 100 days of Obama's presidency? Do Palestinians care much for round numbers? I doubt it. Nor do Iraqis, Afghanis, and, now, Yemenis. Misery is misery,

United States President Barack Obama's decision to name Robert Ford as the new ambassador to Syria to fill a post that has been vacant since 2005 has been warmly received

U.s. democracy promotion in the Middle East has suffered a series of crippling defeats. Despite occasionally paying lip service to the idea, few politicians on either the left or right

Steven Stanek and Matt Bradley, in an article for The National, comment on the Obama Administration’s committment to democratic reform in the Middle East.Stanek and Bradley compare former President Bush’s

Nearly a year since U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on the Washington Capitol steps of a “new way forward” with the Muslim world – and more than six months since

Al-Qaeda is spent as an ideological force in the Arab and Muslim world, so we might as well come out and say it, and, hopefully, act like it too.