“Singapore, GCC, Need to Nurture Historical Ties,” The Business Times, 5 September 2013. Available here.
“Letter from Abu Dhabi: Are the Gulf States Immune to ‘Regional Challenges’?” Middle East Insights (Singapore), October 8, 2012. Available here.
“Obama vs. Romney on the Middle East,” Al-Jazeera English, September 17, 2012. Co-authored with Rana B. Khoury. Available here; also in Middle East Insights, September 18, 2012, here.
“Leadership Deficit on Both Sides Prolongs the Unfinished Uprisings,” Al-Jazeera English, May 8, 2012. Available here.
“Awakening, Cataclysm, or Just a Series of Events? Reflections on the Wave of Protest in the Arab World,” Jadaliyya, May 16, 2011. Available here.
“The Osama Drama: Is the Play Over?” Middle East Insights, May 4, 2011. Available here; also on Al-Jazeera English, May 7, 2011, here.
“Rescue the Revolution,” Foreign Policy: Middle East Channel, April 6, 2011. Available here; also in Middle East Insights, April 7, 2011, here.
“The Crackdown in Bahrain: Notes from the Field,” Al-Jazeera English, March 21, 2011. Available here.
“As the U.S. Considers Intervention in Libya, It Should Look to History,” Foreign Policy: Middle East Channel, March 10, 2011. Available here; also in Middle East Insights, March 11, 2011, here.
“Why It Matters to Asia: Much at Stake in Arab Crisis,” Straits Times (Singapore), February 26, 2011. Co-authored with Rana B. Khoury and Mary E. Stonaker. Also in Jadaliyya as “Oil Supply Disruption Causes a Threat to Asian Economies,” March 1, 2011, here; also posted in Middle East Insights, here.
“Bahrain Then and Now: Reflections on the Future of the Arab Monarchies,” Middle East Insights, February 23, 2011. Available here. Also in Jadaliyya, February 25, 2011, here.
“Egypt on the Brink: The Arab World at a Tipping Point?” Middle East Insights, February 2, 2011. Available here. Also published in The Straits Times, February, 2011; also in Jadaliyya, February 1, 2011, here.
“Re-legitimizing the Palestinian Leadership: Is it Possible and If So, How?” Middle East Insights, January 28, 2011. Available here; also in Al Jazeera English, here.
“Ghassan Tueni: Conscience of Arab Journalism”, Al-Jazirah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), January 2008.
“When a Dome is Worth a Thousand Lives,” The Washington Post (Outlook Section), February 26, 2006, p. 2. Available (via GRC) here.
“Losing the War for Hearts and Minds in the Middle East,” The Daily Star (Beirut), January 22, 2005, (1,750 words). Online here.
“Reformists Risk Backlash from Association with U.S.,” The Daily Star (Beirut), January 6, 2005, (1,650 words). Online here.
“A Closer Look at Bush’s Plans for the Region,” The Daily Star (Beirut), January 5, 2005, (1,660 words). Online here.
“Can Middle East Political Reform Survive the American Embrace?” CCAS News, October 2004.
“US-European Rift is More Than Temporary,” The Daily Star (Beirut), April 8, 2004. Online here.
“Washington’s Neoconservatives Face the Challenge of Transforming Dreams into Realities,” The Daily Star (Beirut), April 7, 2004. Online here.
“The Greater Middle East is the Testing Ground for the New American Project,” The Daily Star (Beirut), April 6, 2004. Online here.
“Pax Americana and the Neoconservatives,” Gulf News (Dubai), January 30, 2004.
“Washington’s Other War,” Gulf News (Dubai), ca. July 4, 2003.
“Democracy in the Arab World: Obstacles and Imperatives,” The Daily Star (Beirut), April 24, 2003.
“Washington is at war on too many fronts in distant land,” Gulf News (Dubai), April 7, 2003. Online here.
“Arabs and Muslims in America Face an Uncertain Future,” Al-Mustaqbal (Beirut), September 19, 2001.
“Arab-Americans Becoming More Organized,” Al-Mustaqbal (Beirut), 19 November 2000.
“Societally Rooted Arab Identity is Appearing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf,” Al-Mustaqbal (Beirut), November 6, 1999.
“The Arab World On-Line: Monitoring the Information Revolution in the Arab World,” CCAS News, March 1997.
“New Challenges to American Policy in the Middle East,” Al-Hayat (in Arabic), November 24, 1995.
“Notes From a Yemen Diary,” [“awraq min daftar yawmiyyat yamaniyya”]. Al-Hayat (in Arabic), June 13, 1994, p. 15.
“Jerusalem: Bush Returns the Spotlight to an Unsettled Issue.” International Herald Tribune, op-ed page, April 3, 1990.
“How Ronald Reagan Could Yet Win An Oscar.” Middle East International (London), op-ed page, May 27, 1983.
“Bahrain, the Gulf’s ‘Guinea-Pig Society’.” The New York Times, 1 November 1979.”
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