In Nixon and Kissinger, Partners in Power, Robert Dallek sheds light on one of the more sinister episodes in the American foreign policy in the

I remember a family friend reminiscing about student demonstrations at the University of Tehran in the early Seventies when a single beat cop equipped with

It sounds morbid but we have come to expect news of mass shootings in North America from time to time. The ritual is a familiar

If there is one thing about Tehran I haven't missed is the way business used to be conducted in the city on a daily basis.

A couple of weeks ago I was lounging in a theater, eagerly awaiting the start of the movie when I found myself a captive audience

The brutal war of attrition in Chechnya in the past 10 years has been mostly observed in North America from a distance. Even after 9/11

After the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, much ink was spilled in the American press on the sophistication of their execution. Four

When times are hard and a society is overwhelmed with fear and uncertainty logic is often the first casualty.  What was rationally explained yesterday loses

Now that dust has settled on California's recall phantasmagoria and the last of porn stars and failed child actors and a plethora of other “colourful”

There is a nightmare experienced by some exiles that unfolds like this: you wake up one morning and find yourself, inexplicably as if in a

One of the most enduring images coming out of Iraq in the early days of the Anglo-American invasion occurred in Southern Iraq, as the British

A couple of years ago, on a gorgeous August Sunday morning, my mother and I were having an early lunch in a Chinese restaurant in