A wonderful opportunity as the Goldman Visiting Professor with Georgetown's Government Department and CJC

A chat with one of our great public intellectuals about Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and a lot more

Before 1948 many prominent Lebanese welcomed a Jewish presence to the south. What went wrong?

I’m thrilled to see “Palestine 1936” out in Russian with Alpina Non-Fiction! Also available in e-book.

An Oscar short-listed film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, rewrites the past to serve a modern political fantasy

Palestine 1936 is now out in Hebrew with Schocken, in an excellent translation by Dana Elazar-Halevi.

Yolande Harmer was Israel's most important spy in 1948. Her legacy is woefully under-recognized.

A few years before halting the Nazis in Egypt, the irascible general commanded a counterinsurgency from his Haifa HQ.

On the eve of the Holocaust, Britain shut the gates to the Holy Land and proposed a Jewish homeland in South America.

Trump's vision of a 'Riviera of the Middle East' has a century-old precedent. It didn't end well.