The generosity of the Quebec City eulogy
After the massacre at a Quebec City mosque, a lesson in how to defeat hate
My favorite museum in Cairo damaged by a car bomb
Terror attack on Egyptian police HQ badly damages the Museum of Islamic Art, an overlooked marvel
Pay no attention to these anti-American protests in Cairo
I was in Cairo 48 hours ago: there is no great wave of anti-Americanism right now
What the New York police are taught about Islam
Muslims are taking over the world. Run! No, fight! No, run!
Mapping the invisible city of Beirut
How a city fed up with thinking about war knows where the next frontlines will be
Peter Schjeldahl wanders blind through the Met’s new Islamic wing
He sees only difference where he ought to be able to see centuries of cultural exchange
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists
My journals on September 11th, 2001
I still can’t believe how slowly I grasped the scale of what was happening that day
Ten years gone
On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened
A landmark moment in Turkey
The decades-long shadow play between the military and the state took a most dramatic turn last week
Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section
The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene
Reading about Sarkozy and French nativists
French cultural insecurity eviscerates the universalism of the Rights of Man
Reading the New Yorker on Islam and economic growth
The middle class everywhere competes on skills; in Egypt connections matter most. That’s the problem
The Muslim Brotherhood had a monopoly. Can they compete?
Mubarak gave the Muslim Brotherhood an unnatural monopoly on opposition. Can they compete?