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Dr. Saleh El Machnouk is a lecturer in comparative politics at Lebanon’s Université Saint-Joseph (USJ). Prior to joining USJ, he was a visiting academic at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a postdoctoral research lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses mainly on state-building, power-sharing agreements, constitutional design, third-party intervention, and electoral laws in ethnically-divided democracies. His articles have appeared in academic journals such as Ethnopol...

A foreign language requirement has long been part of the undergraduate experience at Duke, and the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences is home to seven departments that provide students with a wealth of options. But in this age of technology, where translation software is at everyone’s fingertips, many wonder what students gain from language courses that they can’t get from an app on their smartphones.

The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), established in 1994 in Amman, Jordan, sees itself as a focal point for dialogue between Christians and Muslims. The center also explores the roots of Islamic radicalism. Martina Sabra reports

Sumer, in modern day Iraq, was the birthplace of literature, and once as mighty as Greece or Rome. Now modern technology is helping scientists to reclaim its secrets  

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2023 issue of CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly and is reprinted with permission of the

The house is eyeing up the return of its London evening sale in this category, despite the overall market correction.

The following article is part of the IPTs Jihad University Series. From their support for the BDS movement, to hosting terrorists to accepting terrorist tainted funding, some of the nations top universities have become far too comfortable with

The BDS-supporting, Israel-hating Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which since 2019 has been headquartered at the Washington, D.C., campus of the George Washington University (GW), needs a new home. It just got the boot. In a very low-key,

From the blog of Micah Ben David Naziri at The Times of Israel

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday during a high-profile five-day trip to China during which he hailed Beijing's push to establish a "more open and inclusive world" amid an "unbalanced international order". The two countries' leaders agreed to expand their cooperation in multiple technology sectors - including aerospace, nuclear, information and communications technology - by signing bilateral cooperations in va...