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Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, Tehran has invested heavily in its strategy toward the Arab World. Today, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the generals in the Revolutionary Guard are as committed as ever to remain deeply engaged in Arab countries, from Lebanon to Syria and Yemen and beyond. But what sorts of drivers shape Iran’s Arab strategy? Is it about promoting basic Iranian national interests or exporting the ideology of the Islamic Republic, or even a combination of the two missions?

Randa Slim is the Director of the Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program at the Middle East Institute and a non-resident fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) Foreign Policy Institute.

One of the ways to utilize the past is to use history’s “potential to prepare students for participation in a pluralist democracy.”

/PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation has chosen Sharon L. Davies, J.D., as its president and chief executive officer....

A comprehensive immigration overhaul will not happen unless the movement can change cultural attitudes about people who were not born in the United States. To do that, philanthropy needs to invest in narrative change at least as much policy advocacy.