What Do Arabs Want?

My students sum up what Arabs want in one word: dignity. I’m writing from the American University of Sharjah where I’m teaching for the semester. My students and colleagues are a fair cross section of the region and of the population of the United Arab...

Burial at Sea

When the First World War broke out, Henry James wrote a letter that lamented the sad truth that the event revealed to him about European civilization: The plunge of civilization into the abyss of blood and darkness by the wanton fiat of those 2 infamous autocrats is a...