Middle East

British Ambassador to the United States Nigel Sheinwald sat down with staff writer Caleb Kennedy on Thursday during a visit to the University to discuss trans-Atlantic cooperation and the state of the Middle East.

Mervat Hatem, a political science professor at Howard University, described the emerging “phenomenon” of Islamic feminism on Tuesday in Robertson Hall. She is the first speaker in a series of spring lectures hosted by the Workshop on Arab Political Development and sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Perhaps it was the economic malaise and the anger at corruption and oppression that spelled the end of Hosni Mubarak's reign. But motivations and reasons cannot topple governments. People can.

Foreign policy experts and international officials discussed U.S. policy goals in Afghanistan and the Middle East in a pair of panel discussions on Friday and Saturday as part of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination’s 10th Anniversary Colloquium.

A more in-depth analysis of Rhonda Wall’s exhibition in the Bernstein Gallery of the Woodrow Wilson School, and some help from the artist herself, gave me a new perspective on art, journalism and relevant, consequential debate amongst ourselves.