Manal al-Sharif
Advertisement
Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
Max Fisher is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.
Conflict reporters play an important role in our understanding of the world, but it can be dangerous and difficult work. More »
In a new survey, U.S. respondents seem to perceive Chinese as embodying some of the defining features of Americanness. More »
In a secretly recorded meeting with donors, the presidential candidate offered some surprising thoughts on the Middle East. More »
Since colonialism brought Western and Islamic societies crashing together over a century ago, the former has struggled to understand the rage it seems to provoke in the latter. More »
The violent backlash against the American film is taking place in Muslim societies, but it doesn't seem to correlate with Islam's reach. More »
The diplomats in Cairo, apparently attempting to wield the power of social media for public diplomacy, put out official tweets with an unusually conversational tone. More »
Why, for example, did the Egyptian president wait 24 hours to say anything about the protests storming the U.S. embassy? More »
A U.S. embassy statement condemning an American film that had infuriated Egyptians reveals the challenging, and sometimes competing, expectations placed on diplomats to the Middle East. More »
Terry Jones, the Florida Koran-burner, is helping to promote a movie vilifying Egypt's Muslims, and the Egyptian media got ahold of some clips. More »
Europe's arbitrary post-colonial borders left Africans bunched into countries that don't represent their heritage, a contradiction that still troubles them today. More »
From Chinese immigration stories to European comedies, world cinema shows the U.S. and its people in surprisingly consistent themes of adoration, hope, and suspicion. More »
Some Chinese America-watchers seem to think the actor's oddball speech went quite well, but others are simply using it to practice their foreign language skills. More »
Perplexed by the movie star's Republican National Committee outbursts? Try watching them from Tehran. More »
Countries like India founded the Non-Aligned Movement to resist American and Soviet efforts to enlist them in the Cold War, so why is it today championed by the rogue states that most undermine peace? More »
Germany and Italy forbid glorifying Nazis or fascism, but disagree over whether these tasteless, kitschy wines qualify as harmful to society. More »
Norway's gentler criminal system uses something called "restorative justice," which appears to be potentially better at reducing crime than our own, but at a real cost. More »
The British media, chastened by a year of controversy, are respecting the prince's privacy, though not necessarily their own staff's. More »
Beneath the catchy dance beat and hilarious scenes of Seoul's poshest neighborhood, there might be a subtle message about wealth, class, and value in South Korean society. More »
Self-fulfilling rumors of ethnic violence spread like a virus across the newly wired India, sending 300,000 citizens fleeing and leading the government to extreme measures. More »
