Why Islam Is an Exception (The National Interest)
/A review of Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism.
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A review of Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism.
Read MoreDoes murder and terror by ISIS constitute 'genocide'?
Read MoreThe Mosul Dam is the country’s largest such structure, and sits near ISIS's biggest city in Iraq.
Read MoreRussia’s growing presence in Syria involves a parallel war of information, with the Kremlin dead-set on controlling an increasingly unwieldy narrative.
Read MoreA short video co-produced with colleague Erica Wenig.
Read MoreDocuments published Friday by Wikileaks show that Osama bin Laden's son Abdullah tried unsuccessfully to obtain a death certificate for his father's 2011 death.
Read MorePrint, broadcast and Internet news have all had a bad week for identifying Arabs by name.
Read MoreIslamic State militants in Raqqa, the group’s operations center in Syria, are succumbing to the flesh-eating parasitic disease leishmaniasis.
Read MoreJust days after 21 Christians’ beheading in Libya swept through headlines, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church announced on Saturday that they would join its official calendar of saints.
Read MoreA video emerged Sunday in which ISIS-affiliated extremists beheaded 21 Egyptian Christian hostages, raising worldwide shock and outrage.
Read MoreHeader photo: inscription in the Alhambra, Spain. Taken by me; all rights reserved.
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