Hisham Melhem
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Past articles by Hisham:
Muslim Activists Misunderstand Islam
Why the latest controversy over depictions of Mohammed was completely unnecessary. → Read More
America’s Middle East Allies Are Free Riders No More
We are witnessing an intense scramble for control of the Middle East among mostly autocratic, disparate regimes, creating new alignments where the fabulous wealth of small states is conjugated with countries boasting larger armies, with proxies and mercenaries as expendable cannon fodder in tow. → Read More
After Its Port Explosion, LebanonCan Rise From the Ashes by Taking on Hezbollah
After decades of living in denial, the country has hit rock bottom—but glimmers of a brighter future are starting to emerge. → Read More
The Arab World Has Never Recovered From the Loss of 1967
On Dec. 11, 2016, Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Syria’s most consequential public intellectual in the last half-century, died in Berlin. He was 82 years old. In… → Read More
How Obama’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Deal Fell Apart
A tale of Syrian deception, Russian duplicity, and American dithering → Read More
The Middle East Is Unraveling—and Obama Offers Words
An accounting of the president’s actions and inactions → Read More
The Time of the Assassins
There is something malignant in the brittle world the Arab peoples inhabit. A murderous, fanatical, atavistic Islamist ideology espoused by Salafi Jihadist killers is sweeping that world and shaking it to its foundations, and the reverberations are felt in faraway continents. On the day the globalized wrath of these assassins claimed the lives of the... → Read More
The Time of the Assassins
There is something malignant in the brittle world the Arab peoples inhabit. A murderous, fanatical, atavistic Islamist ideology espoused by Salafi Jihadist killers is sweeping that world and shaking it to its foundations, and the reverberations are felt in faraway continents. On the day the globalized wrath of these assassins claimed the lives of the... → Read More
The Barbarians Within Our Gates
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than to knowingly enter a quagmire. He is doing more than play with the fates of two half-broken countries—Iraq and Syria—whose societies were gutted long before the Americans appeared on the horizon. Obama is stepping once... → Read More
The Barbarians Within Our Gates
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than to knowingly enter a quagmire. He is doing more than play with the fates of two half-broken countries—Iraq and Syria—whose societies were gutted long before the Americans appeared on the horizon. Obama is stepping once... → Read More
The Barbarians Within Our Gates
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than to knowingly enter a quagmire. He is doing more than play with the fates of two half-broken countries—Iraq and Syria—whose societies were gutted long before the Americans appeared on the horizon. Obama is stepping once... → Read More