In the summer of 2006, a forwarded email asked me to vote on a CNN poll about the Israeli military response inside Lebanon. Exhausted, I clicked “NO” without reading the article. Hours later, I read it and found a tangled knot of sovereignty, proxy warfare, and political theology. That night, I wrote “Clickers and Voters” […]
Power, Perception, Media, and the UAE’s Quest for Stability
The Middle East has once again entered a period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Rising tensions involving Iran, Israel, and the United States have revived global debate about whether the region is approaching a broader confrontation or merely another phase in its long history of strategic rivalry. While the Middle East has experienced repeated cycles of […]