Fouad Ajami

The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, read more

The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,

The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,

What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.

What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.

There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They read more

There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.

I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.

I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.